Fun Fact: Mussolini was also a grade school teacher. So imagine growing up and seeing the same man that taught you when you were a kid suddenly rule over the country with an iron fist.
Fun fact. Since wheat is hard to grow in Italy, it depended a lot on grain imports from other nations. Mussolini planned to change that by increasing production and consumption of Rice, which was easier to grow, and Brown Bread, which required less grain. Another proponent of Italian Rice was Filippo Marinetti, founder of the futurist movement, who claimed Pasta made Italian men lazy, and wanted to replace it with new and purely italian dishes.
Italy's dependence on grain imports stem back to the Roman Republic/Empire, especially notable during eras when Egypt wasn't ruled by Rome (and later Constantinople of the Eastern Roman Empire).
Yup. One of the only Kings removed by electoral fraud too. (the Ref' being rife with iffy behaviour, rather like one on a similar issue in Vietnam a few years hence)
@@MazDezViz there is none, historians agree that people tried to alter the results on both sides effectively balancing themselves out. We need to take into account that coming from a dictatorship italians were not really used to actuals referendums so the logistical aspect was kinda hard and that explains some inconsistencies. There are nut jobs like the one above who think it was fraud but they can't really prove it
Italy: Fells betrayed be the allies in WW1Italy: "I'm allying with Germany"Italy: Gets crushed by allies in WW2Italy: "Oh shoot I'm joining the allies now!"
@@Hypogean7 A promise to expand the Roman church was also a threat to French sovereignty. Italy is a joke, France was a joke, religion is dangerous and always will be. Royalty with their own church and armed forces obviously has this opinion to voice through the political mouthpieces of the day.
@@Jamie95326 How do you figure? There was no score-board keeping track. In 1943 they were getting it in every orifice. Hardly was it a German-only effort. The leadership didn't change sides because of Germany (more like a lack of Germany, since there were tensions from the very beginning), the country split in two for purely Italian concerns. Though the Salo Republic was much more of a German puppet than the Kingdom was an Allied puppet. The Salo regime still fielded a couple hundred thousand men (against their will), so not exactly something to scoff but honestly a shadow of the Fascist regime's former self. I often wonder if Mussolini wanted to stay on that island. lol
Interestingly to note here, is that during the vote for whether to keep the monarchy or go republic, the split was pretty even North - South, with the North voting overwhelmingly for the republic, while the South wanted to keep the king. And when a few decades later the disposed royal family wanted to sue the Italian republic for injust treatment (seizing their money and lands) , the republic answered by saying 'Then we sue your family for letting fascism happen' , to which they promptly pulled back.
What could've the royal family do to stop the fascist? I mean shooting people doesn't work and to blame the entire family is dumb, my point is that the italian republic was unfair
@@AllahCat7889 When Mussolini marched on Rome the King, and just the King, had the power to call the army and arrested him, so even if it's unfair to put all the blame on the monarchy they did let fascism happen and then the king screwed up also during WWII so in Italy we still feel a bit betrayed by the monarchy.
@@pecadodeorgullo5963 I agree that the USA was a big reason for Polands lack of sufficient relief, however I think the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact completely eradicated any perceived “betrayal” from France and Britain. For some reason, people can’t understand why Britain and France couldn’t quickly simultaneously defeat two military world superpowers within months… like wtf. Britain didn’t even have a big army, it had a big navy. Boats don’t work well on land. Idiots still believe that Poland was betrayed because they planned to defend until the allies gave relief, yet fail to consider that such a plan becomes COMPLETELY INVALIDATED when the worlds biggest army starts invading you from the east. Even in a world where Britain and France magically got their armies into the centre of Poland, it would’ve been fought to a stalemate, and if additional countries like Japan and Italy inevitably send troops, Poland would never see independence again as their only allies would be twatted alongside them.
The treaty of versailles wasn't that harsh relative to other treaties at the time and Italy was only mad because they didn't get enough land (even though they were given more than they had in the first place). The fascists were to blame for WWII not the allies.
@@Stapler42just imangine being italian you send your troop to Austria help allies hope that we just get some land but after war your do not get single land but britain and france take german ottoman colony you can say allies betray us
You omitted the embarrassing fact that when Mussolini attacked France, after France had surrendered to Germany, his troops were largely repelled and got only minor territorial concessions from a country that really didn't exist any more.
I will never understand why if Italy attacks France when in trouble is backstabbing. When France and Yugoslavia took the fuck they wanted when Italy was on his knees is fair game. Reality is than winner takes it all, land honor and history writing
@@Kamala__Harriis Who said anything about "backstabbing". I make no moral judgments, only comic references about the buffoon who pretended to be an emperor. Given the outcome of the war, Italy would have been smarter to stay at home and pretend everything was fine.
@@SmilingIbis France stayed home, infact Hitler marched on parade in Paris in two weeks. Here the only bafoon is who "knows" history by memes. You don't know shit about Italian history. Maybe you watched 3 cartoon video about Italy in WWII and now you think you can give grades to others
The funniest thing is that Mussolini literally gave Badoglio 3 whole days to prepare the invasion of France. 3 days to attack the second most fortified border in Europe on the highest mountains of the continent...
Well, actually Mussolini “managed” to escape with a bit of a help from German special forces, not by himself as you may expect from the video, which is, nevertheless, fantastic.
It’s funny because there’s literally no reason he should have been king of Albania in the first place. He was prime minister of Albania and one day just decided to become King.
@@rondaxen88 You are aware that there was the hole becoming President and usurping power phase before that right?Heck even when he did that he was sent as a representative during the Albanian declaration of independence and organised troops against the yugoslav invasion.He was pretty popular back then and there are still some Albanian monarchists(small in number) even today.
@@rondaxen88 Oh if that was your argument I suppose you are right.Though I would argue it's not that weird after all even Napoleon wasn't related to any royal dynasty.
"Giving Mussolini a legitimate position in government would make him act in a more respectable manner" 2:58 Oh yeah, because the last time the Italians tried that one it went so well
What I love about your vids is that when one is 10 minutes long, you know its not for ad revenue, its because that is how long the actual content is. No filler and well explained, easily my favourite YT channel atm 👍
Fun Fact: Gabriele D'Annunzio is one of Italy's most famous poets, he referred to himself as a "social animal". When he took Fiume he turned the main villa of the city into a brothel-HQ. He was also well known for consuming copious amounts of cocaine. Badass.
I would like to point out some of the inaccuracies in this video, particularly the parts concerning World War II. First, Italy did not declare war "after the fall of Paris". Mussolini initially planned to declare war on June 5, 1940. Hitler asked him in a letter to postpone the entry by one week. Therefore Italy declared war on June 10, 1940 instead. Germany occupied Paris on June 14. Now I'm no mathematician, but I do know that 10 comes before 14. So that was the first major error: Paris was still standing when Italy declared war. I would also like to point out (since this is a common trope) that when Italy declared war, France was still intact and had not yet collapsed; its Navy, its Air Force and its southern Army were all intact. This common misconception that France was "on its last legs" and that Italy - motivated by some Machiavellian plot - "hopped on board" and attacked an "already-defeated France" is truly historical revisionism made with the benefit of hindsight. No one at the time thought that the fall of France was imminent; not the French, not the British, not the Germans, and certainly not the Italians. It was anticipated that the war with France would last several more months. No one knew that France was going to capitulate so quickly. They were believed to have the strongest army in the world at the time and could have resisted a lot longer. Their surrender came as a surprise to everyone, including Italy.
The people making these videos sadly seem to care more about appealing to meme culture than about being accurate. In meme culture it has become common to ridicule the Italians during both world wars so that is what these videos show.
"On October 28th, 1922, the fascists conducted their infamous march on Rome, where 30.000 blackshirts....marched on Rome" Is the subtle Monty Python-ish style of humor what made me fall in love with this channel
Imagine you and your 4 friends are in your kitchen, you want cookies but there was only 3 cookies left. You play rock paper scissors and decide to give the cookies to the winners. Then all of a sudden your mom comes in sees what you are doing and appoints herself as the judge of who should get cookies. She takes a whole cookie for herself and eats it, then she splits off a third of a cookie and gives it to one of the losers, then she takes another cookie but then she takes a big bite of that one too, then she hands the already bitten piece of a cookie to the winner, she takes another cookie and splits it in half, she gives you one half and then she gives the other half to the dog. Then she decides one of your friends who isnt even in the kitchen should have part of the last one, and just for good measure she takes another bite out of that one too. Then she tells one of your friends he has to bake more cookies himself and give them out to everyone in the kitchen and the dog. Then she just walks out of the kitchen still chewing cookie and you and your 4 friends are left standing there furious at each other and eyeballing the bits of cookies in each others hand. Now replace you and your friends European countries, replace the cookies with land and money, replace your mom with David Llyod George, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson, and you have the Versailles Treaty. TL;DR -- Your mom caused World War 2.
@@allo3573 Mussolini could have pulled a WW1 Italy and just not declared war and watched from the sidelines for a while, but he wanted to recreate Rome. Didn't go to well did it?
Interestingly, part of the reason Mussolini was deposed is because many of the US soldiers invading Italy were Italian-American and had family there, causing many Italians to question why they were fighting in the first place.
When you try to rebuild the Roman Empire because of muh past glory so you invade Greece but you need Germany's help so you try to invade Egypt but you need help from Germany again so you try to invade Kenya but Germany's not there so you play defensively but you lose Egypt and the Allies invade your mainland so you ask Germany for help but they can't do shit but at least the trains ran on time but maybe you should have asked Germany for help with that too
Fun Fact: The original March on Rome was a disaster, with trains breaking down due to rain, as well as the fascists being uncoordinated and bumbled around Italy; even those who got to Rome were uncoordinated and didn't know what to do. Mussolini got into power via backroom deals, and once in power had the fascists March on Rome again, this time more coordinated. This march, with Mussolini present, played into his mythos.
@@artificialgravitas8954 they say the closest thing left to the ancient Romans would be the island of Sardinia. And Sardinian is the closest thing to latin.
@C. C. A. The Franks were latinised as well, but they were no romans and didn't they have to import philosophy from the Byzantines (actual-ish Romans) and the Ottomans before such philosophy returned to Europe?
@@artificialgravitas8954 If you're speaking in terms of genetics, they're a lot closer to Romans than one might think - though even the name "Roman" meant something more specific in those times compared to Italians. Of course, genetics don't give a fuck about artificial social constructs so saying "This group is a lot like this ancient-er group! More so than that other group!" is reductionist.
Italy was severely depopulated but the majority of the Italians are descended from a Latin Mediterranean peoples mixed with Germanic in the north and Greek and other Mediterranean peoples in the south
Germany:What am I gonna do with these fools.Hey Turkey wanna help? Turkey:If you fire those fools and hire me yes. Italy:Should I change sid- Germany:Nvm Turkey just stay neutral.
The Italian "invasion" of France in 1940 was also a peculiar one: 5000 Italians were stopped by 9 French in a bunker (and the angry grandma who brought them bread each morning)
Kinda seems like mussolini was like that guy who gets pressured into everything at school until eventually everything is blamed on him and not the rest of the group. That's politics in a nutshell.
3:32 Fun fact: October 28th is celebrated in Greece as the day our participation in WW2 started. And it started with Italy invading Greece. Seems Mussolini liked this particular day a lot
Very brilliant to start an invasion at the end of October, with a whole winter coming soon, in a mountain region... wow!! Mussolini's war genius! :-) Should we ask ouselves why we lost?
@Player Player we lost because we where unprepaired, bad equipped and lead by total idiots. War strategy nonexistent. My grandfather was sent to Greece, he was from the north of Italy. They all stayed in trenches the whole winter! The truth? Nobody in Italy wanted the invasion of Greece, as nobody wanted to go to war. Germans were motivated (and drugged), even if by a crazy and criminal cause. Italians were not. Besides, they for sure didn't want to move war to the Greeks, the people I mean. Most Italians would have rather fougth the Germans much stronger! As they did in fact, during the Reistance period, fought in the North by the Partisans
@Player Player you don't get me here. May be my fault in explaining. Let's make it clear: I despice every war! The invasion was a crime, period. I just wanted to point out how a dictature can be bad and stupid at the same time. Nobody wanted the war, what Mussolini did? Go to war. They (the fascists I mean) expressed their best in conducting the war.
The "lol dey chernged sides 2wice!" comments even though madlad here wipes that away in the video within the first twenty seconds. >.> I love me some good "changed sides" memes, but they're honestly only memes. The first time they got off on a technicality and they didn't like the Austrians anyway, the second time it wasn't as simple as changing sides - they broke in two. And had a pretty fucking awful civil war that lasted until the end of the war. Northern Italy was one of the last places in which Fascist and German forces capitulated. History is complicated and messy, but who wants messy memes?
You didn't seem to talk about privatization in the 1920s. Yes, Mussolini was a socialist, then he became "rightist" and then he carried out privatization, then he became a dictator, then the narrator organized monopolies, in general, it's quite interesting, their economy.
@@vlagerio7921 Except the far-right makes the private sector operate for the government, making it not much different than the far-left, like in China that has transitioned from communism to a state run private sector. So a state controlled private sector is neither right or left on its own. It depends which side implemented it. Mussolini and fascism really makes this blurry in my opinion. I suppose you could just say going from the extreme right to the extreme left, or vice versa, isn't that far to go.
It's always nice to recap the (sad) historic your own country. Always love your videos! 😘 Btw, a language note for you: in Gramsci the "SC" sound pronounces the same as the "SC" sound in Fascists. 😉
Allies: people, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference. *1:18**, Treaty of Rapallo* also Alies: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that
in which way are those principles anything more than platitudes sold to the public. the only sin the axis had was that they wanted to reach the same state as the allies had, especially Germany. German people were occupied and under foreign rule on all sides (doesnt sound very free and equal to me). Also brittain and france had the most colonies, which is also a pretty unequal and unfree thing to do. all germany and italy wanted was to take some of those colonies away and have them for themself. so the only immoral thing the axis did was to want the same thing the liberal nations already had. i never really understood the meme of fascist unreasnable expansionism. you can make that claim about strategic war effort, but from an ideological or moral view they simply had the disire to replace other nations as world powers. and brittain and france commit various atrocities in establishing their colonies too, but back than it was harder to kill many people and frankly, nobody cared to demonize them for it.
"Geolitti actually lost seats and the socialists gained them" after calling an election as head of the ruling Conservative party. Hmm... Seems familiar...
Mussolini deserved what he got but when you look at what they did to his body afterwards you won't be so sure. I wasn't and my grandpa tells me stories about the Nazis killing nearly all of his neighbourhood just for wanting the Nazis to stop pillaging that neighborhood. I'm lucky to be alive but there is something called respect for the dead.
A fun fact about why Italy joined the Entente: there were 3 ways to resolve the war thing. The first (and the best, in my opinion) was that we could have sat this one out, staying neutral and making big money by selling stuff to both sides and getting bribed by both to not get involved. This was a very common tactic used by the famous and fierce Italian (and foreign too) mercenary companies and their mercenary captains (like Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, a strategist so strong he would literally get paid by both sides not to intervene in their wars on the enemy's side). France and Austria-Hungary had already shown they were aware that if Italy had joined, maybe it wouldn't have accomplished much, but it would have forced the attacked nation (either Austria or France) to divert tons of troops from the main battlefields to their border, weakening their forces. Sadly, many "intellectuals" and patriots wanted to break neutrality because there were many Italian-speaking lands that were still under foreign control, and they wanted to get those back. The second option was to join the Tripartite Alliance with our old allies, the Central Powers, and attack France to gain back the territories we had given them during our unification in exchange for their support (and then some more). These territories included Savoia, Nizza, and Corsica (Corsica was considered Italian only because their language and culture were clearly Italian and the Corse patriots wanted to join Italy. France made sure to displace them with French citizens in the later decades to crush such sentiments and get a definitive hold of the Island). This option wasn't really possible, and it was as clear as day to the Italian generals, more than to the French ones. The Italian Army was WAY overvalued by the foreign Nations. The reality was that there was no adequate equipment, artillery, training and generals. The French army could go toe-to-toe with the English and the Germans, do you really think the Italian could do the same. Not at all. Our soldiers would have been crushed by the French army, had we attacked. Yes, it would have also meant we would have distracted for a while the French for the Germans to possibly defeat them, but it would have costed us WAY too much in terms of lives and territory losses. The last option, was to attack Austria-Hungary, the only Nation (aside from the Ottoman Empire) with which we could really go toe-to-toe. Our armies were more or less at the same level, although Italy was WAY younger than the Austrian Empire, and we would have been able to keep them distracted for long enough, and had we been able to succeed (according to English and French tracherous diplomats) we could have seized many lands on the Adriatic (even tho only some of them spoke one of the Italian languages and many only held some groups of Italian minorities). So that's why we chose option 3. BTW, much love to our beloved neighbors, the French, the Austrians, and the Croatians. The fact that we fought in the past doesn't mean we can't be friends, and I personally love all of you. Cheers mates ✌
Also fighting france would have meant fighting in one of the highest mountain range in europe. The fight against the austrian was awful because of the Alps, but the same against France would have been close to impossible. Also have fun being blockaded by the royal navy.
It should be mentioned that after Mussolini was deposed in 1943, he was held Prisoner by the new Italian government. However, Hitler ordered that Mussolini be rescued from the Alpine hotel he was held in. In a Commando raid led by Otto "Scarface" Skorzeny (supposedly) without firing a shot, Mussolini was taken to German occupied northern Italy, where Hitler installed him as the Puppet leader of the Italian Social Republic. However, as the war relentlessly went against the Germans, Mussolini knew that chances are, if he stayed put, he'd be captured. But as he tried to head north, trying to blend in with a convoy of German troops, he was recognised by Italian Partisans who ordered him and his mistress, Clara Petacci, out. The day before Hitler killed himself, Mussolini and his mistress were fatally shot
The battle for grain actually made the italian diet worse. Land that had been used to for meat and dairy production was turned over to produce grain and that ended up being inefficient. As a result, grain prices did end up falling but meat and dairy prices increased substantially and the variety and quality of food on italian tables took a significant hit.
@@Realkeepa-et9vo I mean, that's broad. At the time of the great depression maybe, but there wasn't many 'capitalists' left outside of the UK and USA most had turned away from the centre. Now days I don't see many Capitalists supporting Fascists, heck look at europe where even the conservates are refusing to work with the alt right let alone full blown fascists.
It's kinda funny, but basically the black shirts were out of control and were being extremely violent through out all of Italy, and so Mussolini presented himself as the only choice Italy had for order, being, as he proclaimed, the only person that could control the black shirts...
@@Realkeepa-et9vo They didn't have the gift of hindsight though, and to be honest, fascism was somewhat successful in europe (Italy, Germany, Spain). Of course the big mistake was they wanted to conquer the whole damned world and started ww2. Who knows what the world would be like if Germany had not invaded Poland...
When you say the king refused to give the order to open fire on the fascists, he actually did this because a close advisor over exaggerated the strength of the fascists and urged him to give Mussolini the position of prime minister. This was false, and the advisor had fascist leanings . So there you have it.
In the video there's a series of errors about how Italy "switched side", perpetuating unfair wartime propaganda. Here is a quick recap of what actually happened: The 25th July 1943 Mussolini was demoted and arrested. The 3rd of September the king signed the capitulation and fled to Southern Italy - full of fascists, but controlled by the Anglo-Americans. The 18th of September Mussolini came back as puppet leader of a puppet north Italian state controlled by Germany. The 13th of October the king declared war to Mussolini and yeah, okay, alto to its allied (the Germans). Basically, the king was surrounded by fascists, but these were nowhere to see, for a while; but as soon as Mussolini came back, the king was in imminent death danger. Italy didn't really "switch side", since it remained neutral(ized) for 40 days (3 September - 13 October 1943), but it declared war again only because the king needed Mussolini dead to survive himself.
Caporetto was mainly a German Victory not exactly an Austro-Hungarian one, the plan was German and the organisation too, I mean it doesn't change a lot on the result but we can say that loosing to Germany was different than loosing to Austria-Hungary. By the way the video was perfect and I hope you cover more "Mussoliny related" topics like the War on Greece and the Expedition in Russia, I would love to hear your narration about it!
Are you serious? Italy did not do well against Austria under Svetozar Boroievic during the Battles of the Isonzo River 1 to 11, while almost always having double the manpower the Austrians had. Same numerical advantage holds true for Isonzo 12, also known as Caporetto, even though the Germans did support Austria. Austria performed badly in the war, but general consensus is that they were still way superior to the Italians under Luigi Cadorna.
i remember reading Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel and basically all the Italians were on Germany's side because they used to work there before the war. One time when he convinced an entire army unit to surrender *on his own* they basically all yelled "Long live Germany!" and shot their commanders when they tried to stop them from surrendering.
One thing I suddenly got interested in was the rise of Fascism in Italy, specifically how Mussolini gained power. This is definitely not because of a specific event a few years ago that happened in America that caused a massive event in Washington that just so happened to maybe possibly be similar to a fez wearing Italian man gaining power in the country.
It’s incredible to think that none of these former empire can stand on their own feet now! That’s why they have to bunch to keep terrorizing and surviving, but time will solve everything…
@@Chocolatnave123 "irrelevant". Imagine if the Western front had to face the entire Austro-Hungarian and German empires at the same time.. Irrelevant ur ass
I'm amazed about the numbers of ignorant guys that think with their meme brains! I find this video quite good but with some inaccuracies; for exemple in WWI Italy fared more or less like the other countries in a much difficult terrain, the mountains! You should also have said that Italy did not get the promised territories (that includes colonies in africa) because of the US president Wilson, he wanted to nullify all the secrets treaties.
@@aiiv7839 yeah and you know why he did it? The people of those territories had the right to decide who governed them. And look i'm ok with that.... i the president of a nation who stole all the territories from the original owners wasn't the one who said that.
My grandfather had a brother who was in the Italian navy during WWI. My grandmother had a brother who was in the Austro-Hungarian army. My family came from Venezia (Venice) and Trieste. We were split by the war as many families were during the American Civil War.
Tourism is perhaps Italy's economic engine. Who wants to visit a fascist dictatorship? I went there in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2009, and 2015. Never again. It's dead to me.
Italy's time in WW2 was interesting, there was division within and it went into war too quickly. But of course, it meant certain things came about that sprung it's military power.
With regards to "the march on Rome", I believe Mussolini turned up right at the end when the march was about to enter Rome. The march itself started at Naples I believe. Could anyone who knows for sure about this please correct or affirm these beliefs.
The period of the Italian Social Republic or Salò Republic was portrayed in Pier Paolo Pasolino's movie "Salò - 120 days of Sodom". Salò was the capital of Italian Social Republic and Pasolini's brother was killed there for being a partisan. It was Pasolini's last movie.
@@matijavrscak6461 Sadly what that's italian territory, there's always been a majority of italian speaking people in south tirol, and istria was even part of venician republic; istria should still be italian, that's something i still don't understaand, there was no reason to give it to yugoslavia,to tito, what a goddamn mistake, so many italians died for that
@@jesterdsu are you serious right now? Istria was mostly populated by Croats. The majority of Italians were only in westistria and trieste. And for the bullshit they did with ww1 and ww2, they should have lost Trst too. Well thanks to Murica, because they didn' want a commie Italy and so alowed them to keep Trieste and South Tirol.
@@matijavrscak6461 Yes now that i looked up 38% was italian, but still, istria was since the romans time, belonging to an italian state, and it made sense that it was part of italy, as trieste that was an italian city; the 38% as you said, was mainly on the western coast, hence italy; in WW2 man i can't say anything, black page of our history, one thing only, we didn't change side, we had a civil war, and luckly(?) the partizans won, inn ww1 we kinda managed to inflict defeats to the austrians, but as a lot of people have said, italy didn't have a good army mainly because we are surrounded by the alps and by the ocean, so there wasn't a real reason, Mussolini dind't understand that because in reality he was a delusional man who really tought he could reunite the roman empire, well we paid the price, luckly today we have a decent army:)
@@jesterdsu this doesn't matter how long it was in your hands. And as I can tell, Italians ain't Romans, but a mix of old Roman nations, Langobards and Normans. Italy as itself exists since 1870. Civil war? It was a fact that until 1943 you all were loyal German alies. It's also a fact that you changed sides because you saw an oportunity because Germany was losing. And since we are going by history, then by your logic Kotor, Bosnia and Herzegowina and Srijem which is now part of Serbia, should have remained Croatian... Just please man. And if you even got Istria (and initialy Dalmatia), with your atitude you would want to enslave the Croats (again) and kick them out. P. S. Istrian cities didn't belong to Venice until 13 and late 14 century, just like Dalmatia where people regularily rebeled against the Venetians.
More things to add: 1. Mussolini was a Socialist all his life, he only left the Communist Party because at that moment the Socialist movement was internationalist (later it also became under the control of Moscow and so a threat to Italy independence). 2. The Fascist movement was a pure syndicalist movement and the economic measures adopted by Mussolini were almost identical to those taken by Lenin. As I've said, he was a socialist/syndicalist. 3. Mussolini considered Racism stupid and ridiculous, he made joke about it, that's why thousands of Jews were party members until in the late 30s and his mistress was also Jewish. Later, I think after 1938-1939, when Italy became dependent of Germany, he adopted Racist laws just to please Berlin. Also, he didn't send any Jew to concentration camps.
Source? My source is that I made it the fuck up… first off Mussolini was kicked out the socialist party bc he supported WW1 and here’s your first mistake bc Lenin hated ww1 second socialism and communism are two different things all togheter so you got that wrong third as soon as Mussolini came into power he abolish any type of left wing party even the more centric one and only put his stop trying spouting shit you don’t know off
@@rhy45bianchi31 The original poster is correct, and here are some sources to support those claims; - "La Dottrina Del Fascismo / the Doctrine of Fascism", by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile - "Che cosa è il Fascismo: Discorsi e polemiche / Origins and Doctrine of Fascism", by Giovanni Gentile - "the Philosophy of Fascism", by Mario Palmieri - "Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice", by Renzo De Felice - "Mussolini's Intellectuals", by A. James Gregor - "La Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni", by Rabaglietti Giuseppe & Sergio Panunzio - "Teoria generale dello Stato Fascista", by Sergio Panunzio - Any work from Emilio Gentile
Mussolini didn't just "escape". He was rescued by an airborne assault by elite Fallschirmjager led by the legendary Otto Skorzeny without a shot being fired. It still to this day goes down as the most daring raid ever attempted during wartime in which the odds were firmly against them.
@@fuckinantipope5511 Successor party to Mussolini's fascist party? Quit it. The MSI split up into a lot of splinter factions, FDI comes from the most liberal, moderate faction and has absolutely nothing to do with fascism. This party is pro-Israel, pro-European Union and has done nothing to stop migration. Btw: The leftist party (PD) comes from the Communist Italian Party, and yet they're not communists.
