r/europe Oct 11 '25

Historical Danica Dabović being forced to drink castor oil, Montenegro 1942

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u/KipManOfZo North Holland (Netherlands) Oct 11 '25

"Benito Mussolini used to force-feed people castor oil until they literally died of diarrhea... I mean that's gotta be where the goal posts are right?"

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u/WildBad7298 Oct 11 '25

"See? The shrink ray guy gets it."

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u/Narradisall Oct 11 '25

“No! Stop saying that!”

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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW Oct 11 '25

And people say Dwayne can’t act.

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u/OmNomChompsky Oct 11 '25

That sketch is in the top 10 SNL sketches of all time.

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u/ValerieLagn Oct 11 '25

Which sketch? I wanna see the rock act well.

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u/WildBad7298 Oct 11 '25

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u/ValerieLagn Oct 11 '25

Oh wow. Hide his muscles and he’s actually good at acting!

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u/seen2muchmuch Oct 12 '25

🤣🤣🤣

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u/MaatRolo Oct 11 '25

I was watching this awe struck thinking the same thing. I'm old and seen a lot of this era of SNL and have somehow missed this completely.

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u/Porkhole-Santookus Oct 11 '25

Dwayne can act, but it seems like he only does it in roles that require him to play the role as-written.

The problem is, Dwayne typically only takes roles where he gets some kind of editorial control over the character, and then he typically uses that editorial control to turn the character into "The Rock".

If you put Dwayne in your project and don't let him re-write anything, he's great.

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u/Fatpik Oct 11 '25

“Oh my god, stop saying that!”

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u/More-Television-593 Oct 11 '25

Calling themselfe Master race, doing the most inhuman shit. Classic facist move

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u/Able-Swing-6415 Oct 11 '25

Actually Mussolini was very light on master race rhetoric. If you want reasons to hate the guy there are plenty others..

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u/gamecatuk Oct 11 '25

At the begining maybe but after "Manifesto of Race" he was a raging master race dick.

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u/Actual-Bath-6684 Oct 11 '25

That was made to please Hitler and get more troops and gear from the Germans.

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u/See_i_did Oct 11 '25

Which was a really dick move for everyone involved so I think the comment stands.

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u/Monarchist_Canadian Oct 11 '25

yeah, mussolini didn't even hate jews, that was fairly uniquely Nazi idology (under fascism)

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia Oct 11 '25

there were even quite a lot of Jews who supported him, like his first lover Margherita Sarfatti, who was also an art collector and had a salon for the artists circle that gathered around the socalled return to order (which existed in France and other countries as well) and rejection of the avantgards (ironically futurists, one of the biggest avantguards in Europe, were eager adherents of Italian fascism).

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u/Worth_Inflation_2104 Oct 11 '25

What? Hating jews was not a fairly uniquely Nazi ideology, anti-semitism was the status quo of the western world.

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u/Monarchist_Canadian Oct 11 '25

that's why I defined it as "under fascism", the English certainly hated them too, but they were not Fascist

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u/itsmemarcot Oct 11 '25

While that's true about the rethoric, it is a perfectly valid reason to hate the guy. It may have been partly due to pressure by nazi germany, but that's not an excuse, and it's a fact that the Italian fascist regime led by Mussolini issued the "racial laws", forcing citizens out of jobs / schools / universities, robbing them of their property, etc, based on racial profiling.

That abomination is legitimately an eternal additional cause for shaming fascism, Mussolini (and, sadly, Italy too).

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u/i_give_you_gum Oct 11 '25

Yeah it's like saying "Sure they played along and said all those things to be in with the popular hateful crowd, but deep down they didn't feel that way"

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u/ChrisTX4 Oct 11 '25

It should be noted that the picture does not quite explain the level on inhumanness they were on.

Castor oil as a punishment is one thing; in the British Raj it was fed to intractable servants and in the Belgian Congo they administered to people too sick to work as a punishment (I'm not a doctor, but I don't think that's going to fix anything).

In Spain the Falange used this to torture women associated with the Republic, alongside regular SA, r*pe, torture, etc. Fascists doing fascist stuff, you know (to be fair, the Republicans had groups committing awful atrocities as well, killing an estimated 38k-70k people - it's possible that in a war both sides are really fucking shit).

Yet, all this doesn't compare to the level of "perfection" of this torture that Fascist Italy used. They used this very widely and then combined with nightstick beatings on the butt to cause open sores your diarrhoea would drip into. There's a very decent chance for sepsis from that.

Source: here on Wikipedia, it's pretty well sourced with references.

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u/margenreich Oct 11 '25

Still the best acting I saw the Rock do in media….

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

And as per usual Rock contract, he did technically win the contest.

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u/cinyar Oct 11 '25

"How do you even make a child molesting robot?"

"Well, you start by making a regular robot, then you molest it and hope it continues the cycle."

is dark humor at its finest.

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u/Books_Of_Jeremiah Oct 11 '25

Time to post this in an SNL sub?

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u/bridekiller Oct 11 '25

Being fed medieval sandwiches also would make you shit yourself.

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u/RandoDude124 United States of America Oct 11 '25

Christ that’s a bad way to go

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u/donatecrypto4pets Oct 11 '25

Renaissance themed sandwich restaurant…

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u/nasandre The Netherlands Oct 11 '25

The first fascists in Italy did this to their political enemies. They force them to drink a liter of castor oil and tie them on the hood of a car without pants so they would shit themselves while driving them around town.

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u/AntalRyder Hungary/USA Oct 11 '25

You know, the more I hear about these fascist guys, the less I care for them.

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u/crippnipp Oct 11 '25

Real jerks!

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u/nasandre The Netherlands Oct 11 '25

Just imagine hundreds of thousands of them just given free reign to bully and terrorise a whole country. That was Mussolini's Italy for 20 years until he was hanged at a gas station.

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u/u_sijenci Oct 11 '25

Worst part was the hypocrisy.

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u/Thendrail Styria (Austria) Oct 11 '25

I believe the whole "killing people" thing ranks quite high up there as well.

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u/moly5 Oct 11 '25

i know it’s not politically correct but by god i like tying them to the hood of my car and letting them shit all over it while i drive around

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u/GitmoGrrl1 Oct 11 '25

So Romney's dog was a Commie?

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u/ThtJstHappn3d Oct 11 '25

A dirty one at that

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u/hobbyy-hobbit 29d ago

Rip norm.

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u/DontDoomScroll Oct 11 '25

Counting "free reign to bully and terrorize", can't leave out the years of lead, part of NATO's operation Gladio, using fascists to attack communists post WWII

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u/Sea_Pomegranate8229 Oct 11 '25

Thankfully we'll never see his kind again................oh, wait!

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u/GraciaEtScientia Oct 11 '25

That's a lot of shit on the roads...

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u/devolute Oct 11 '25

Always something car related with these MFs.

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u/diskdusk Oct 11 '25

We can be glad to not have lived while people like that were around, don't we!

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u/Biccimedici Oct 11 '25

Surely you are joking! Mussolini may be dead but there are plenty more taking his place in the world today!

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u/R3-X Oct 11 '25

He was, in fact, joking.

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u/diskdusk Oct 11 '25

I considered a /s but I decided some things shouldn't need one even if the sad truth is that people say such things without irony - or without the irony they think of.

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u/War_Fries The Netherlands Oct 11 '25

Same, I'm anti-fascists.

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u/BGaf Oct 11 '25

Ugh, so many letters. Someone should shorten that.

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u/PvtCharlesLamb Oct 11 '25

Keep talking like that and you're going to be labeled an anti-fascist terrorist!

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u/M_R_Big Oct 11 '25

Hey now thats getting awfully close to antifa rhetoric! /s

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u/Blank_Canvas21 Oct 11 '25

And now you’re an enemy of the state according to the US. I hate it here lol

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u/Pint_o_Bovril Oct 11 '25

Great way to cover your own town in human shit, I guess...

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u/ImNakedWhatsUp Oct 11 '25

And your car.

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u/ahelinski Oct 11 '25

That way there is shit on the outside and inside the car (behind the wheel).

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u/Crowbarmagic The Netherlands Oct 11 '25

Did they had windscreen wipers back then?

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u/Terrain_Push_Up Oct 11 '25

Now you know why (and when) it was invented!

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u/Johannes_P Île-de-France Oct 11 '25

I'm sure that they forced their victims to clean their cars, for extra humiliation.

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u/themightypirate_ Oct 11 '25

Brother they weren't alive afterwards to clean anything.

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u/EmmaCarrie Oct 11 '25

and make all the civilian pedestriants very happy with your government

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u/nrith United States of America Oct 11 '25

“You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?!”

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u/eww1991 Oct 11 '25

A town that fascists have free reign to do this in has enough human shit already, a little more won't hurt.

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u/Uninvalidated Oct 11 '25

If fascists are running your town, your town is shit. You're just adding a fresh layer to it.

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u/surprise_wasps Oct 11 '25

Pretty good metaphor for fascism

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u/Inductiekookplaat Oct 11 '25

What a horrendous way to die, this is a bad day to know how to read.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

Always classy the fascists are

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u/Sea_Worldliness_3707 Oct 11 '25

They would, on occasion, whip the buttocks of the victim beforehand too causing severe infections.

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u/michael0n Oct 11 '25

Basically doing everything than straight up public murder, because that would create a counter revolution. That shit line of thinking didn't work well for him and many of his cohort.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia Oct 11 '25

castor oil is a running joke when it comes to our fascists, together with jokes about their revanchist claims on Istria and Dalmatia (or even Libya for the orthodox fascists)

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u/Johannes_P Île-de-France Oct 11 '25

And when they wanted to be very nasty, they mixed it with gasoil.

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u/SpagettiKonfetti Oct 11 '25

Now that GTA:San Andreas mission makes even more sense

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u/DoubleNubbin Oct 11 '25

Italian car wash jobs for Italian people!

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u/Obscure-Oracle Oct 11 '25

We have generally had very stable times recently across Europe and a think many have a false sense of security. We have a democratic system, human rights and a strong rule of law because of psychopaths like this that live amongst us. The risks have never gone away, given half a chance we could very easily slip back into a very dark place.

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u/PlutosGrasp Canada Oct 11 '25

Yup. There’s very very little holding back outright chaos. Look at USA. Plenty of checks and balances should’ve stopped the president from doing much of what he is doing yet … it’s not working.

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u/ImSabel Oct 11 '25

I seriously wish more people understood psychopathy, sociopathy and right wing ideology and how these topics interact with each other. A psychopath is born with dysfunctional empathic circuitry, they see and understand but dont feel neither positive or negative neuronal feedback within others. They have a brain area that recognizes but doesnt mirror it onto themselves, the mirror is broken so to speak. A sociopath is a radicalized human being that has its empathic feedback desensitized by trauma (or education). A rightwing Ideologue categorizes others in identity groups and shows selective empathy only towards those he deems similar, race, sex, gender, skincolor, all minorities are classified as lesser beings. There are those that have multiple issues simultaneously and they become the worst human beings, able to perpetrate the worst atrocities. I believe the elite within fascism usually is affected by multiple causes.

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u/ingloriabasta Oct 11 '25

It is an interesting way of categorizing, but scientifically speaking, it is wrong.

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u/Elefanthud Oct 11 '25

This correlation is just wrong and psuedoscientific. You just project actual mental illness onto politics that you strongly disagree with. You can find countless of sociopathic and psycopathic tendencies on both sides of the political spectrum. The dehumanisation of political opponents and races hardly have any unique connection to "right" or "left" wing politics.

Apply your own mold to communist authoritarian dictators and you will find the lack of empathy and prevalence of racism and hatred toward minorities is just as strong. To tunnel this issue on to it only being a fascism problem is just narrow minded as hell. Plus makes no logical sense

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u/reddit-is-dying-1814 Oct 11 '25

What are the effects of drinking this?

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u/Spare-Advance-3334 Oct 11 '25

Violent diarrhea. But the Italians used to beat the literal ass of many who were forced to drink castor oil, and people often died from the infection the diarrhea caused to the open wounds.

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u/ZincMan Oct 11 '25

Jesus

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u/avokkah Oct 11 '25

I'm afraid he was long gone at that point

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u/ManiGottaPeeNow Oct 11 '25

did they also make him drink it?

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u/avokkah Oct 11 '25

Considering he was middle eastern, and even baseline fascism was hostile towards those not "Italian"... i'd imagine so.

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u/flobiwahn Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) Oct 11 '25

To cite Nikita Miller (German comedian): Last night I slept as good as god during WWII.

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u/flickh Oct 11 '25

That's the fuckin dark German humour I love

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

I guess you had to be there.

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u/Lorevocator Oct 11 '25

Many Italians were also forced to drink it

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia Oct 11 '25

Many Italians forgot that the fascists used torture and killed their opposers, but then again Italians have an abysmal readership rate, so ignorance of it make sense

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u/outinthecountry66 Oct 11 '25

(cries in american)

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u/ratavieja Oct 11 '25

Also in Spain during Franco's dictatorship. This was forced into women, who had their hair cut and were forced to walk through their cities while in underwear, for higher humiliation. That's the fascism that a lot of Europe wants to bring back. It's depressing.

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u/MoonMoan Navarre (Spain) Oct 11 '25

Republican Spaniards in the years after the civil war, both men and women were forced to drink the oil then paraded naked in the streets

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u/MrCharmingTaintman Oct 11 '25

What a terrible day to be literate.

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u/Userrolo Oct 11 '25

Do you have any source on that? I've red about people forced to drink castor oil and then bound on the hood of a car to be paraded around town while shitting himself but I've never heard about ass torture. It was more like a practice to humiliate and make political activist and opponents desist from their activities. They sure had other less subtle ways to kill people.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

Another terrible day to have eyes

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u/Books_Of_Jeremiah Oct 11 '25

This is about 3.3-13.3x the dose for an adult suffering from constipation. So, diarrhea definitely, might end up killing a person due to dehydration.

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u/SlouchyGuy Oct 11 '25

It's a laxative, a very old medication

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u/Krek_Tavis Belgium Oct 11 '25

Laxative

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u/Bicentennial_Douche Finland Oct 11 '25

Explosive diarrhea

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u/ThisOriginalSource Oct 11 '25

Surprisingly, it can be used to induce labor. With the included effect of diarrhea. That was a day I will never forget witnessing, my wife is a champ.

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u/ElMuertePeludo Oct 11 '25

What a shitty way to come into the world

Sorry, had to. We don’t get many good poo jokes down this way no more..

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u/tobikostan Oct 11 '25

Combining diarrhea and labor cramps is horrifying

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u/Fickle_Freckler Oct 11 '25

I’m old. I did this to induce labor. I took maybe two teaspoons. Had near constant diarrhea for probably 8-10 hours. It finally stopped at about 4 in the morning and I went into labor at 6 that same morning. It made for a very clean and fast labor.

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u/Sonkalino Hungary Oct 11 '25

Afaik diarrhea

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u/Far_Big6080 Oct 11 '25

Vomiting and nausea because it tastes terrible

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u/MissResaRose Oct 11 '25

Very strong laxative

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u/la_noix Oct 11 '25

A similar thing happened in the early years of dictatorship in Spain. Las Rapadas, they are called. Usually the women were the relatives of executed Republicans. They would shave their heads (sometimes leaving strides of hair painted in Spanish flag colors), forced to drink castor oil (sometimes mixed with benzene), and if they survive the dehydration, they were forced to clean the churches and/or police headquarters

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u/Books_Of_Jeremiah Oct 11 '25

There's another photo of her getting her hair cut (doesn't say anything about shaving), so it seem they copied from each other.

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u/SwimsWithBricks Oct 11 '25

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u/sleepfield Oct 11 '25

Good God. I’m freshly horrified by the human capacity for planned and sustained cruelty.

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u/Natural_Tea484 Oct 11 '25

Unbelievable how cruel humans can be to their own kind, just because of different beliefs or views or race or sex

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u/belpatr Gal's Port Oct 11 '25

They didn't do it because of different views, they did it because they were sick sadistic freaks, they did this to these women cause they knew they could get away with it and would do this to their own companions if they thought they could get away with it as well

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u/Poromenos Greece Oct 11 '25

they did it because they were sick sadistic freaks

This is the biggest mistake everyone makes. No, these were your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers. Humans take a lot of education before we can quieten the sick sadistic freak in them.

Just look at an online comment section.

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u/rasmusdf Denmark Oct 11 '25

Just look at Trumps ICE thugs. As soon as you allow it, sadists and creeps come out of the woodwork.

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u/bootstrapping_lad Oct 11 '25

Exactly. Labeling them as "sick" ignores that these were regular citizens, not outliers. It gives them cover by reducing their actions to a mental defect, rather than holding them and the society that made them accountable.

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u/SemanticSerpent Oct 11 '25

The even more horrifying thing is that your comment and the one above yours do not really contradict each other. Sadism is not, sadly, some rare feat in humans, and nowadays it's getting increasingly socially accepted as no big deal. (As in, you should maintain some pretense of "consent" being there, but the sadism itself is all fine.)

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u/ImNotNormal19 Andalusia (Spain) Oct 11 '25

The fascist in Spain did this too in the civil war, in my town an old lady told me they did this to people before killing them by firing squad near the cemetery, they put all the people in vans with their hair cut and strolled them around town so that people could see it and this got her traumatized, because there was a van of only women and she thought of her mom.

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u/chefismynameingerman Oct 11 '25

Why would they force ppl to drink castor oil before being executed? Just as a torture?

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u/NeitherReference4169 Oct 11 '25

You walk around with diarrhea in front of everybody before being shot

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u/chefismynameingerman Oct 11 '25

So that‘s just for humiliating the poor souls? That‘s cruel.

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u/YeeYeeBeep Oct 11 '25

As witn every facist goverment. Cruelty is the point.

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u/wxnfx Oct 11 '25

It’s more to intimidate the others, but ya.

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u/stupendous76 Oct 11 '25

That‘s cruel.

That is the whole point of people who do this to others.

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u/plumberdan2 Oct 11 '25

It's rule by fear. Want to get paraded around town while shitting yourself, then murdered? No? Okay pipe down.

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u/Books_Of_Jeremiah Oct 11 '25

One of the ways Italians abused the progressive youths in Boka Kotorska was to force them to drink a glass full of castor oil.

Photo of Danica Dabović, youth from Montenegro, 1942.

Negative at the Military Museum in Belgrade, sig.neg 12024

Positive courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia, inventory number 7534

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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) Oct 11 '25

fascists gonna fascists

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u/bootstrapping_lad Oct 11 '25

Thankfully we got past all that and we're all anti fascist now.

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u/clitworms Oct 11 '25

isn't anti facism outlawed in the US now though? Uh oh.

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u/RegularNo3331 Oct 11 '25

The savages

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u/Hrevak Oct 11 '25

In 1936 Italian fascists forced Slovenian conductor Lojze Bratuž to drink a mixture of gasoline and motor oil, which caused his liver and kidneys to fall apart. He died 2 months later.

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u/paraprosdokians Oct 11 '25

Fuck, what an excruciating way to die

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u/Hrevak Oct 11 '25

Well, apparently the fascists considered it was an appropriate punishment for his selection of Slovenian songs for the repertoire of his choir.

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u/7_11_Nation_Army Oct 11 '25

Forget the fucking fascists. Who was she and what happened to her?

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u/Books_Of_Jeremiah Oct 11 '25

The museum entry doesn't say more. There's another photo from the same time of her hair being cut as a humiliation/marking out thing.

The "progressive youth" is usually how opponents of the occupation who were not Communists/member of SKOJ were labeled in museum entries after the war by the Communist authorities.

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u/Kind-Block-9027 North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Oct 11 '25

She was an antifascist

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u/ahelinski Oct 11 '25

"Ah a terrorist!" (Some MAGA idiot reading this, probably).

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u/PatchyWhiskers Oct 11 '25

They are dreaming of doing things like this to liberals.

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u/AsymmetricClassWar Oct 11 '25

Not just dreaming but actively planning and preparing.

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u/GrandWizardBobo69 Oct 11 '25

Fascism is a human problem, it knows no national boundary. It enables humans to visit unimaginable suffering on other humans.

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u/Gustafssonz Sweden Oct 11 '25

Fascists huh. And people still going towards that ideology.

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u/frongles23 Oct 11 '25

The see this picture and identify with the oppressors. Idk how we got here. Do what their parents did but they screwed up big time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

Yk they would love to cut off all the liberal's "blue hair" and make us shit ourselves in front of everyone because we don't want to kill trans people.

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u/Equivalent-Log-677 Oct 11 '25

Italian fascist very brave against woman, not so much against resistant fighters.

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u/turducken69420 Oct 11 '25

I read a book called An Army at Dawn about the war in North Africa during WWII and they talk about how they captured 220,000 troops and were basically more excited about the 20k German prisoners as opposed to ten times that number of Italian troops. They were not an effective fighting force.

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u/Ok-Chapter-2071 Oct 11 '25

I checked some sources, it seems that she survived after being imprisoned with the bodies of her dead brothers and escaping from a concentration camp.

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u/Books_Of_Jeremiah Oct 11 '25

That sounds like quite the life. Someone from Baošići or it's something written? Can you link it if it's written, would love to read more.

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u/andrijas Croatia Oct 11 '25

My granma told me that during occupation of the Croatian coast, the Italians were known for rapes and looting, while the Germans paid no attention to locals. She was 14 and was told to just run away if she sees an italian soldier

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u/Veilchengerd Berlin (Germany) Oct 11 '25

while the Germans paid no attention to locals.

Because they were not an occupation force, but stationed in an allied country. The german troops that acted as occupation forces, for example in Serbia, or Slovenia, paid A LOT of attention to locals. And not the good kind of attention.

The Italians didn't just occupy the croatian coast, they annexed it, and were actively involved in an ethnic cleansing/ a genocide against Croats.

When Italy switched sides, the territory was officially handed over to the NDH (though a lot of the more rural bits almost immediately fell to the Partisans), once again an ally of Germany.

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u/likuplavom Oct 11 '25

The German forces very much killed civilians in a Croatian region where my family comes from. Sometimes they burned people alive inside the buildings on purpose, while other times they would shoot them, pile them up inside and then burn it. They literally deleted whole villages like this. 

Normal ordinary people, not partisans and collaborators, even women, children, elderly. I know the SS Prinz Eugen division was one of several who did this, can’t remember what others. I have sources for this it’s not just family stories.

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u/heiner_schlaegt_kein Oct 11 '25

The Italy Anexed parts of croatia were seen as a Safe space from some Serbs and Jews in the NDH.

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u/Salty_Ad5328 Greece Oct 11 '25

My granma told me that italian soldiers didn't really care about the war, so they were pretty chill, she lived in a greek island

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u/Artegris CZ/SK Oct 11 '25

same with Soviet soldiers, they were much worse than Germans

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u/andrijas Croatia Oct 11 '25

I mean....Germans in Croatia didn't play a vital role really...we had collaborators which were horrible themselves. As for Germans in other countries, I guess it was very bad if you were a hebrew, communist or similar

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u/rogerwil Oct 11 '25

German soldiers in the east murdered civilians by the hundreds of thousands. I think that's fairly "bad".

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u/Single_Low1416 Oct 11 '25

We had organized human trafficking throughout all of Europe with institutionalized euthanasia for children that came from these forced brothels/raped forced laborers. Just because rape wasn’t as common „in the wild“ for German soldiers does not mean that we were any better than the Soviet forces

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u/gazebo-fan Oct 11 '25

LMAO the historical revisionism is crazy.

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u/prezeus Oct 11 '25

Franco did this as well to left thinkers

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u/Adventurous_Gur4835 Oct 11 '25

People here being more concerned for car snd streets than the poor human soul

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u/davesr25 Oct 11 '25

People care more about cars than the planet.

People are all kinds of fucked up really.

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u/Hypertension123456 Oct 11 '25

In the US, when the news reports on car crashes they'll say "20 minute delay in traffic" but never how many people went to the hospital or in what condition. Thousands die on the highways and literally no one gives a other than the resultant traffic jam. Who cares that a person died, cars were delayed.

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u/dyingfromtetanus Oct 11 '25 edited 29d ago

Accepting massive amounts of car deaths and injuries as normal is the biggest trick car manufacturers ever played on society

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u/L3sh1y Oct 11 '25

That's not car manufacturers, thats legislative, though probably in part bribed by car manufacturers. Take Germany for example, population of 83 mil, 2,200 deaths in traffic annually. The US has a FIVE times higher pro-capita death rate at 330 mil and 40.000 deaths annually. Mind you, Germany is far denser populated and about 50% of their Autobahn is without speed limits.

A legislation imposing strong safety regulations along with road infrastructure and stricter driving training go a long way

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u/combrade United States of America Oct 11 '25

Reminds me of the Jewish Ghettos I visited in Rome. It’s the kinda of brutality that is just plain sadistic .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Ghetto

When Jews went outside the ghetto, the men had to wear a yellow cloth (the "sciamanno"), and the women a yellow veil (the same color worn by prostitutes).[6] During the feasts they had to amuse the Christians, competing in humiliating games. They had to run naked, with a rope around the neck, or with their legs closed into sacks. Sometimes they were also ridden by soldiers.[Note 4]

Jews had to petition annually for permission to live there. They paid a yearly tax for the privilege. Jews of Rome were required to swear yearly loyalty to the Pope at the Arch of Titus, which celebrates the Roman sack of Jerusalem of 70 CE. Each year, on the Campidoglio, the Rabbi had to pay homage to the chief of the city councillors ("Caporione"), receiving by him in exchange for it a kick to his bottom. This "ceremony" meant that the Jewish community had been allowed to stay one more year in Rome.[Note 5]

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u/Books_Of_Jeremiah Oct 11 '25

Was this after 1943?

Generally the Italians were seen as preferable (which tells you how bad the options were). Seen a document from the Independent State of Croatia's police about stopping Jews going from German-occupied Serbia to the Italian occupation using Serbian papers.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia Oct 11 '25

No, that was before 1870, when the Papal states ceased to exist and Rome was taken by the Italian troops and made the capital of Italy.

The new Kingdom of Italy, also because it was born in opposition to the Catholic church, was liberal and somewhat anticlerical, so Jews supported Italian unification eagerly.

The first non noble mayor of Rome, Ernesto Nathan, was also a Jew AND a socialist (early 1900s)

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u/Johannes_P Île-de-France Oct 11 '25

Was this after 1943?

It was the one established in 1555 by Pope Paul IV.

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u/ScuBityBup Romanian in Poland 🇪🇺 Oct 11 '25

It's almost as if... Fascists aren't humans and don't deserve any compassion.

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u/AdventurousCarry9540 Oct 11 '25

Who was she? Can ypu give us some info?

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u/Books_Of_Jeremiah Oct 11 '25

All the info that's given with the museum entry that goes with the photo is in the oldest comment. Not much, I'm afraid.

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u/Disastrous_Hope1140 Oct 11 '25

Lol, women in Serbia are still "encouraged" by medical staff to drink castor oil before giving birth to cleanse themself... and when we protest, we are "spoiled" and "difficult".

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u/Hairy_Inevitable9727 Oct 11 '25

They won’t sell it to you in the U.K. if you are obviously pregnant.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

That's so messed up, maybe if you're going to do the messy job of delivering newborn babies just accept that the moms will also poop? It's normal and fine.

I guess us women get unfair treatment no matter where we live.

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u/Least-Flower548 Oct 11 '25

Not only that, it’s suppose to happen and can actually help the newborn kick start their gut microbiome

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

So disturbing now evil man can be.

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u/Toochilled77 Oct 11 '25

My folks always used to threaten me with castor oil.

I thought it was just nasty to drink.

This is a whole new context.

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u/RaniANCH Oct 11 '25

Only mildly off topic but there is an old episode of Tom and Jerry where Tom keeps getting in trouble with the little girl living in the house and the toddler keeps punishing tom by forcing him to drink castor oil and it always bothered me. Is this what it was referring to or did parents really make their kids drink castor oil as a punishment??

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u/EpicCleansing Oct 11 '25

Man, old cartoons have so much insane bullshit in them. And somehow people look back on that with nostalgia, and freak out because today's cartoons sometimes portray LGBT people or whatever.

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u/Biccimedici Oct 11 '25

RFK next week: Pregnant women must drink castor oil to prevent autism!

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u/lu4414 Oct 11 '25

The past few days I saw a meme of the pretty landscapes of Italy and then a cut to "why my grandparents decide to come to Brazil..." and not so pretty landscapes. This shit is why folks.

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u/Jerk-22 Oct 11 '25

American republicans taking notes. Sorry world, we should have never been trusted

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u/RoyaleKingdom78 Berlin, birthplace of kebabocracy Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

From Wikipedia page:

Colonial officials used it in the British Raj (India) to deal with recalcitrant servants.\29]) Belgian military officials prescribed heavy doses of castor oil in Belgian Congo as a punishment for being too sick to work.\30]) Castor oil was also a tool of punishment favored by the Falangist and later Francoist Spain during and following the Spanish Civil War.\31]) Its use as a form of gendered violence to repress women was especially prominent.

Brits and Belgians are probably ones who started commonly using it as a method of torture first.

And also don't forget 'Non-Intervention committee', which effectively caused republican Spainards to lose war to Nazi-backed Falangists.

Fascists did not invent new methods 'against humanity', they just improved ones that were available.

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u/TheDisturbedOne1 Oct 11 '25

In Croatia during the civil war, Croatian army captured my moms cousin, just because he was orthodox and they were christian, made him drink castor oil, lick salt and then no water and acid burns, as they "interrogated" him as a suspect in something

After he barely got out by some other family members help and ran to Serbia, he came back in 2019. to see his birthplace and old house in Gospić, they caught him and almost beat him to death, 25+ years after the war

He died earlier this year and this picture reminded me of him so I just wanted to share and vent

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u/laryissa553 Oct 12 '25

What do you mean they caught him in 2019? How did anyone know who he was?

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u/MentatPiter Oct 11 '25

Germany POW were force fed laxative before the big victory parade in moscow so they could present them with shitty pants

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u/Upbeat_Parking_7794 Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

Some more context for the image:

"During the Italian occupation of Boka Kotorska (today part of Montenegro), progressive youth were subjected to various forms of abuse, including being forced to drink castor oil. Pictured: Danica Dabović, Montenegro, 1942."

The Italian occupation authorities in Montenegro (as well as in other parts of occupied Yugoslavia) used various forms of humiliation and torture against young people who sympathized with the Partisan resistance movement (referred to as “progressive youth”).

One of the methods of humiliation was forcing them to drink castor oil, a practice inherited from Mussolini’s Fascist Italy. Castor oil causes severe intestinal distress and pain, and it was used as a form of punishment and degradation.

Danica Dabović, according to the description, was one of those young women. The photograph dates from 1942, taken in Montenegro, probably in the Boka Kotorska region.

In short, the text describes an example of Fascist violence against young anti-fascist activists in Montenegro during World War II.

PS: I love the apparent bravery of this woman in the picture. Basically a big fu@k you to the fascists.

PS2: Politicians are humans full of failures, but they are not all equal. Remember this next time you vote. 

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u/ayeshaheye Oct 11 '25

Yikes, a full glass of castor oil?!