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Jun 2021
18m 16s

Special: Republic Day 2021

MIKE CORRADI
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A repeat episode on the vote that changed Italian History, abolishing the Monarchy and creating the Italian Republic on 2nd June 1946, with all the complications and tensions leading up to and following the vote. 
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