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    Repression and racial persecution

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    Repression and terror, including the OVRA and Special Tribunal, crushed opposition, and anti-semitic decrees from 1938 removed Jewish Italians from public life.
    Pearson Edexcel · The fascist state, 1925–40 (study guide)

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