THE PROMISE/ Who is Mussolini's 'lover' 'Klareta', in Albanian politics

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THE PROMISE/ Who is Mussolini's 'lover' 'Klareta', in
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The chairman of the Freedom Party, Ilir Meta, was harsh when he was asked today about the possibility of leaving politics after the approval of the laws for the verification of politicians as spies.

He threatened Prime Minister Rama and Lulzim Basha, whom he called 'Mussolini and his lover Clareta', saying that they will end up like these two. Mussolini and Claretta were executed during World War II.

' Anyone who dares to touch the vote of the Albanian citizens will end up like Musolni and Clareta. In our case, it is Clareta of May 17, who were locked up there together and...he is Clareta.

All Albanians know, the democrats, they are right to be afraid of PL. PL will return freedom to all Albanians. Every Monday the parliament of Tirana will have a special session on the injustices that happened during the week that they left behind ,' said Meta. The President of Liria compared Basha to Mussolini's Clareta and accused them of the night of May 17. 

Who is Clara Petacci, the lover of Benito Mussolini:

Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini was famous for having many mistresses. But undoubtedly the most important was the last, Clara Petacci, who was shot next to him on April 28, 1945, just 75 years ago. Claretta was 29 years younger than 'il Duce' and had adored him since she was a teenager.

THE PROMISE/ Who is Mussolini's 'lover' 'Klareta', in
Clara Petacci

According to Oxford University historian Richard JB Bosworth, who wrote a biography of her in 2017, they met by chance. It was on a beach outside Rome, in Ostia, in 1932, when Mussolini had already been supreme leader of Italy for ten years.

Claretta was 20 years old:

"She came from a bourgeois Roman family. Her father was part of Pope Pius XI's medical team and also ran a clinic for the upper class in Rome. Her mother was very Catholic and it was unusual to see her without a rosary in hand," says Bosworth.

Despite the fact that Mussolini was married and much older than his daughter, both parents encouraged the extramarital affair, the historian says.

Preferred

Ironically, the lovers would meet at mass on Sundays, then spend Sunday afternoons having sex in Mussolini's office. But Claretta was not just one of the many young and beautiful women who passed into the life of il Duce.

After a lull in their relationship between 1934 and 1936, when she married and later divorced an Air Force lieutenant, she became the fascist leader's primary concubine.

He was the only one who had his own room in the Palazzo Venezia, where Mussolini installed his government. In addition, she had her own bodyguard and driver.

Despite his young age, he had a very high cultural and intellectual level and, for most of the 13 years that their relationship lasted, he recorded many of the conversations in his diaries. When these were first declassified and released in 2009, they caused quite a stir.

Politician Alessandra Mussolini, the totalitarian leader's granddaughter, said Petacci had been a "persecutor" and assured that "not a single word" of what she wrote about her grandfather in the newspapers was true.

Addicted to sex and insecure

The diaries, written between 1932 and 1938 and published under the title "Claretta Petacci, Secret Mussolini", describe the fascist leader's insatiable sexual appetite.

" There was a time when I had 14 wives and I was taking three or four every night, one after the other ," he told his new girlfriend. However, Mussolini's love story caused endless quarrels between them, as she was also very jealous. Many newspaper passages recount these heated battles, interspersed with important events that would mark world history, such as the alliance between Mussolini and his German counterpart, Adolf Hitler.

"We make love like we've never made love until his chest hurts and then we do it again. Then he falls asleep, exhausted and happy," she wrote of that night. The diaries also reveal many of Mussolini's insecurities, not only as a lover but also as a leader.

The fall of Mussolini

Even after Mussolini was overthrown in July 1943, his girlfriend remained loyal to him. After being separated, both arrested, for a couple of months, in September of that year they met in northern Italy, where the fascist leader who was freed by the Nazis, installed a puppet government of the Third Reich: the Italian Social Republic. , better known as the "Republic of Saló".

Surrounded by allies and Italian resistance partisans - on April 25, 1945, about four months before the end of the war, Mussolini fled with his mistress and government officials to the Swiss border.

They were caught two days later by partisans in the village of Dongo, on the shores of Lake Como, the next afternoon they were shot./ VoxNews


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