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title: '''MUSSOLINI HA SEMPRE RAGIONE'' in giant letters on an embankment, as printed in L''Illustration, April 1935'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mussolini-ha-sempre-ragione-1935/
description: Giant white letters spelling MUSSOLINI HA SEMPRE RAGIONE (Mussolini is always right) run along the top of a grassy embankment above a track and a roofed…
section: Collection
---

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# 'MUSSOLINI HA SEMPRE RAGIONE' in giant letters on an embankment, as printed in L'Illustration, April 1935

Giant white letters spelling MUSSOLINI HA SEMPRE RAGIONE (Mussolini is always right) run along the top of a grassy embankment above a track and a roofed colonnade, with poster boards reading LANITAL and SNIA AMBA hung from the poles in front. The slogan puts the leader's infallibility beyond testing, and it is sized to be read from the whole sightline.

## Text on the object

Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
MUSSOLINI HA SEMPRE RAGIONE

[poster boards on the poles:]
LANITAL
SNIA AMBA
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
MUSSOLINI IS ALWAYS RIGHT

[poster boards on the poles:]
LANITAL
SNIA AMBA
```

Several letters of the long slogan are partly hidden by lamp poles and flagpoles; the words read in full across the skyline. LANITAL and SNIA AMBA are read from the small boards and are only partly sharp at this resolution.

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