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Find the entire interview in this video    • STEFANIE PREZIOSO - HOW ITALY LOST ITS ANT...   and its explanatory dossier at https://www.diagrammes.fr/en/ Stefanie Prezioso is a historian specializing in twentieth-century Europe. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Lausanne in 2002, where she is now Professor of Modern History at the Institute of Political Studies. Her publications include Contre la guerre 14–18. Résistances mondiales et révolution sociale (2017); Echoes of October. International Commemorations of the Bolshevik Revolution 1918–1990 (2017, with Jean-François Fayet and Valérie Gorin); Découvrir l’antifascisme (2025); and Quand vient la nuit. Volontaires internationaux contre le fascisme (1936–1939) (2026, with Jean Batou and Ami-Jacques Rapin). She has also served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the First World War Centenary Mission, contributing her expertise to an international group of leading scholars. Prezioso’s research focuses on World War 1, revolutionary processes in the first half of the twentieth century, political violence and the development of fascist and antifascist formations across Europe. A central focus of her work is the genealogy, conceptual framing, and transnational dynamics of fascism. She also investigates the contemporary uses of fascist memory- how contemporary media infrastructures digital platforms, online gaming, and algorithmic systems reshape public understanding of the past as well as in political discourse. Her scholarship provides a critical framework for analyzing how the erosion of antifascist vigilance can weaken democratic institutions. In this interview, Stefanie Prezioso revisits the historical mechanisms that made possible the normalization of the radical right in Italy and, through it, across Europe. She analyzes the sequences of events that, since the founding of the First Republic, have eroded the legitimacy of antifascism and enabled the gradual rehabilitation of the heirs of the Mussolinian regime. From the Christian Democrats’ call for national reconciliation to the discipline imposed on the Communist Party by Moscow, through the upheavals of the long May ’68, the Years of Lead, and the failure of the Historic Compromise, she shows how the fading of antifascist vigilance weakened the ability of Italian democracy to recognize its adversaries. She also retraces how the collapse of the old party system, corruption scandals, and the broader recomposition of the political field paved the way for the rise of a hybrid and already radicalized right, of which Silvio Berlusconi was the inaugural figure. The interview also highlights the continuity between the coalitions built around Forza Italia and the current configuration dominated by Fratelli d’Italia and led by Giorgia Meloni. Although Meloni enjoys the confidence of Italy’s European partners, her government, according to Prezioso, marks a new threshold: it no longer merely erases the memory of antifascism but now actively seeks to criminalize it, echoing developments seen in the United States under the Trump administration. Despite this troubling shift, Stefanie Prezioso emphasizes that the persistence of antifascism as a target reveals its enduring strength: far from being a relic of the past, it remains a vital political resource for understanding and resisting the rightward drift underway. The interview was conducted in Paris on 13 October 2025. Interviewed by Michel Feher Conducted in Paris on the 13 of October 2025 Directed by Thierry Corroyer Produced by Florence Mention and Aurélie Windels Dossier: Alexandra Bucher, Michel Feher, Thomas Gmür, Tom Novak and Aurélie Windels Visual Research : Sophie Liner Translation and subtitling : Aurélie Windels Music by Laz Lo, Eeryskies, Damiens Simons Voice : Amanda Bay Follow and support @diagrammes. Website: https://www.diagrammes.fr/en Instagram:   / diagram.me.s   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/diagrammes.b...