''Sabato fascista'' ("Fascist Saturday") was established by the
Italian
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Fascist Grand Council
The Grand Council of Fascism (, also translated "Fascist Grand Council") was the main body of Mussolini's Fascist government in Italy, that held and applied great power to control the institutions of government. It was created as a body of the ...
on 16 February 1935. Italians were expected to use Saturday afternoons engaged in cultural, sporting, paramilitary and political activities.
[Tracy H. Koon, ''Believe, Obey, Fight: Political Socialization of Youth in Fascist Italy, 1922–1943'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), p. 112.]
According to Tracy H. Koon, this scheme failed as most Italians preferred to spend Saturday as a day of rest.
The Secretary of the
National Fascist Party
The National Fascist Party ( it, Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian Fascism and as a reorganization of the previous Italian Fasces of Combat. The ...
,
Achille Starace
Achille Starace (; 18 August 1889 – 29 April 1945) was a prominent leader of Fascist Italy before and during World War II.
Early life and career
Starace was born in Sannicola, province of Lecce, in southern Apulia. His father was a wine and oi ...
, repeatedly complained about Italians' lack of participation.
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