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Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.
Neither state is fascist. The similarity you are noting is the authoritarian parts. Fascism opposes bolshevism and especially the USSR.