Radio War Nerd #265 — The 1970 Borghese Coup, Part Two. With Annibale
Guest: Annibale
Recorded: January 22, 2021
In the second part of our 2-part series on Italy's 1970 Borghese Coup plot (RWN #264), our Years Of Lead expert Annibale describes the political conditions in Italy at the time of the coup, the events, who benefited, the likely goal of the coup plotters, and why one of the neofascist coup plotters later boasted that the coup succeeded.
Follow Annibale on Twitter. Listen to Annibale's popular RWN series: Italy's Years OfLead (#134, #135,#136, #139); Italian Resistance in WW2 (#131); Italy on the Eastern Front in WWII (#226, #227, #228, #231, #236); Venetian Empire (#207, #208, #209, #214); The Hundred Years War (#175, #176, #177, #180, #182, #183).
Buy John Dolan's book "The War Nerd Iliad" and his audiobook "Pleasant Hell".
Interlude music by Brendon Anderegg. Check out his group Mountains here.
Total time: 1:43:31
Comments (6)
Thank you very much for this. I was wondering if there was any future plans or desire for a show on the original deep state, Turkey? Could do half a show on the Susurluk incident alone.
Yes, definitely. Any suggestions for guest?
Have to scratch this itch: the foreign languages John hears in Dublin are highly unlikely to be tourists, given the times. Of course ordinarily there would be lots of tourists. But there are a lot of people from all over the world living in Dublin, and undoubtedly working in still-open retail in the city centre. He's probably hearing a lot of Portuguese, especially, from both Brazilans and Portuguese people.
I'm sure you're right. I just see well dressed people speaking a foreign language while strolling through the city center and think 'tourist'.
Some how understandable Italie has a fanfare with semi dictarorschip with the worship of Julius Ceasar. Who imho was also a reaction against elites squabeling but not providing public benefit
good ep lads