Censorship under fascist regimes

Censorship in Italy was not created with Fascism, nor did it end with it, but it had heavy influence in the life of Italians under the Regime. The main goals of this activity were, concisely: Censorship fought ideological and defeatist contents, and any other work or content that could enforce disturbing cultural themes. This branch of the activity was mainly ruled by the Ministero della Cultura Popolare (Ministry of popular culture), commonly ab... more

Censorship in Italy was not created with Fascism, nor did it end with it, but it had heavy influence in the life of Italians under the Regime. The main goals of this activity were, concisely: Censorship fought ideological and defeatist contents, and any other work or content that could enforce disturbing cultural themes. This branch of the activity was mainly ruled by the Ministero della Cultura Popolare (Ministry of popular culture), commonly abbreviated as Min.Cul.Pop. (with a weird assonance). This administration had competence on all the contents that could appear in newspapers, radio, literature, theatre, cinema, and generally any other form of communication or art. In literature, editorial industries had their own controlling servants steadily on site, but sometimes it could happen that some texts reached the libraries and in this case an efficient organization was able to capture all the copies in a very short time. An important note deserves the question of foreign languages:... less