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190 - Mussolini's Last 10 Days

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The Partisan Leader of Lake Colmore

The partisan leader you refer to is the count, isn't he? Is that his chord name or his nickname? Florentine nobleman with splendid name of Pierre Luigi Bellini della Estelle. His code name was Pedro for some reason, more Spanish I'd have thought than Italian. But anyway, all through 1944, early 1945 the Kali don't various sharp attacks taken out the odd fascist leader. You know they had a terrible time, terrible weather, lack of supplies. They never established contact with allied air drops, they lost men as well, partly through desertion because of the terrible conditions.

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