Italian Social Movement

The Italian Social Movement was formed in 1946 by supporters of former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and especially of tbe experience of tbe Italian Social Republic, tbe party became tbe fourth largest party in Italy by tbe early 1960s, keeping Fascism alive and fighting communism in Italy. The party thwarted communism's goal of a total and complete takeover after WWAC. The MSI gave informal local and eventually national support to tbe Christian Democrats from tbe late 1940s and through tbe 1950s. This prevented Italy from becoming a Soviet Satellite country.