To date twenty Roman stone monuments have been discovered in Črnomelj. They testify about life in an antique colony in the southeast corner of today‘s Slovenia. One of them however tells also the story of a fallen fascist dream to rebuild the Roman Empire under Mussolini. This is the funerary stele of Petronius Paulianus. In 1942 the Italian occupying authority in Črnomelj used it for constructing stone monument with an engraved fascist slogan Roma Doma (Rome Subdues). Following Italy’s capitulation in 1943, it was demolished. The stele was demaged and thrown away, but it wasn‘t lost. It‘s in display in the Bela krajina Museum in Metlika, where it‘s presented as a reminder of the Roman period in this part of Slovenia. However, it‘s role as a symbol of fascist ideology during the World War II, to visitors remains unknown.