Did you know the Vatican has run a shadowy spy network for centuries, blending faith with cloak-and-dagger intrigue? 🕵️♂️ From WWII rescues to Cold War CIA ties, uncover the Holy Alliance's secret ops in this riveting history.

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#VaticanSpies #HolyAlliance #WWIIHistory

The Holy Alliance, also called the Grand Alliance, was a coalition linking the absolute monarchist great powers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia signed in Paris on 26 September 1815.

The alliance aimed to restrain liberalism in Europe, ostensibly, the alliance was formed to instil the divine right of kings and Christian values in European political life.

#HolyAlliance

Today's poem:

Poems from Rosetti
- by Dante Gabriel Rosetti (excerpt)

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767402927559245824/poems-from-rosetti?source=share

#Metternich #HolyAlliance #italy #austria #occupation #privation #violence #poverty
#oppression #DanteGabrielRosetti #poetry
#love #comradeship

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits -

This photo from the museum in Leipzig - the autocrats of the Holy Alliance, plus Metternich.

It was a bastion against democracy and citizen-nationalism, designed to frustrate any liberalisation of Prussia, Austria or Russia.

#HolyAlliance #history #autocracy #power #oppression

corriere.it by Cesare Zapperi, inviato a Pontida
Salvini lancia a Pontida la «Santa alleanza» dei patrioti anti migranti Orbán: sei un eroe

«Viktor, Viktor»
Il premier ungherese acclamato: porteremo gli immigrati davanti agli uffici di Bruxelles

Translated:
Salvini launches in Pontida the "Holy Alliance" of anti-migrant patriots. Orban: you are a hero.

The acclaimed Hungarian prime minister: We will bring immigrants to the offices of Brussels.

#Hungary #Belgium #Salvini #Slovenia #HolyAlliance #Orban #primeminister #Brussels #Pontida
https://www.corriere.it/politica/24_ottobre_06/salvini-lancia-a-pontida-la-santa-alleanza-dei-patrioti-anti-migranti-orban-sei-un-eroe-d1b3b74f-ff20-4acf-981d-d3eac56e5xlk.shtml