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Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (OND)
Italy's national Fascist leisure and recreational organization, established in 1925. The name means "After Work Organization." By 1936 it had around four million members. The OND organized subsidized entertainment, sports facilities, theatrical performances, dances, travel, and radio broadcasts for Italian workers and their families. Its purpose was to keep workers occupied with state-approved leisure, reduce class conflict, and spread Fascist ideology through enjoyable activities rather than direct indoctrination. Historians debate how far OND activities genuinely supported the regime versus simply providing popular services that workers used without ideological buy-in.