The ONLY Man the Mafia feared… 

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💡Did you know that after Sicily was liberated, the Allied military government (AMGOT) faced challenges in maintaining order? Removing fascist leaders created a power vacuum, and the mafia seized the opportunity to fill key roles with their supported individuals. Mafia-backed Sicilian separatists, such as Lucio Tusca (who became the acting mayor of Palermo) and The Duchess of Chizarro, took on significant political positions. The Allies didn't intend to restore mafia influence; it somewhat slipped past their notice, especially as the mafia had gained sway during the war when the Nazis left the island. The unintended resurgence of mafia power highlighted the complexities of post-liberation governance in Sicily. 18:50

💡Did you know that not all US mobsters hated Mussolini? Vito Genovese, a notorious mobster, had a fascinating relationship with il Duce. In 1934, he ordered the "taking out" of Ferdinand Boccia over a card game betrayal. Fleeing to Italy in 1937, Genovese developed ties with powerful fascist figures, including Mussolini's son-in-law. He donated nearly $4 million to the Mussolini's party, and received multiple awards. 10:15

Cesare Mori, is a name that still stings in the memory of the Sicilian underworld, and let me tell you, his rise was a force to be reckoned with. This was the guy that Mussolini appointed to crush the mafia. Mori was actually a former cop, who developed quite a reputation of being a “man of action”. And to ensure he could operate as efficiently as possible, listen to this. In a telegram Mussolini wrote to Mori: "Your Excellency has “carte blanche”, the authority of the State must absolutely, I repeat absolutely, be re-established in Sicily. Should the laws currently in effect hinder you, that will be no problem, we shall make new laws." Yes, you heard that right. He had the full backing of Mussolini himself to achieve his mission, by any means necessary, no matter the implications.

This is pretty badass from Mussolini not gonna lie despite the fact he did it so the Mafia and no one else can challenge his rule as dictator. Still. He was IL Duce for a reason

“This is from General Alexander, reminding you not to take Palermo “ Send him a message, ask him if he wants me to give it back?!!” - Patton! Also I bet Patton is not thrilled that Sicily was Lucky Luciano’s plan! Not his!

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mussolini one to talk about being a gangster he was the worse kind of gangster a govt gangster

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Good Evening Sir Could you please make an analysis about the Power of my favourite Godfather, the Great, Don Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria? The Boss was the most Powerful gangster, America has ever seen. He was the one who kept alive the crushed Morello Borgarta. He was the one, who by the mid 20s, had overpowered the official Capo dei Capi, Don Salvatore D'Aquila and the outsider kingpins, like the j#w, Arnold Rothstein. Frankie Yale as his caporegime. In the "Gold Year", 1928, it was Masseria who gave the ok/order to Al Capone, for having Yale whacked, because the 2nd had stole Capone's liquor. The Boss ordered Yale's death, because he had switched sides to D'Aquila. As a reward for Yale's hit, Capone got made a caporegime in the Masseria Family and had the authority by the Don, to himself made 10 soldiers, that's why he was reffering as "capodecina" or "capo dei decina". July, Yale got killed, October, D'Aquila and November, Rothstein, in order to fully dominate the Tammany Hall(the Boss gave the job to Dutch Schultz). In December, Don Giuseppe Masseria, got finally enthroned as the Capo dei Capi. He was now controlling, except from his own Family (who was the biggest in the country, aparted by at least 600 soldiers), the former D'Aquila now Mineo (Gambino) Family, the Reina (Luchesse) Family, the Chicago Outfit (according to an FBI file of the statement of Milwaukee informant, August "Augie" Maniaci, Capone was giving Masseria huge paymnents for Protection due to his conflict with Godfather Giuseppe Aiello-he wasn't afraid Aiello, but his compares across the country, the Castellamareses, so Masseria was keeping thing in line, so the two Chicago gangsters were fighting by their forces, without real support by allies). Joe the Boss was also having control over Clevelant, Detroit (partly), Florida and other cities across the country. His networth was estimated to 70 BILLION DOLLARS in today's money. Like New York Police had reported for Masseria: "He was the King of fish (meaning his dominance over the lucrative Fulton Fish Market), wine and booze. He was a force, mysteriously even to his countrymen, way bigger than the names who are in the papers. He was the Bigger of them all. Bigger than Al Capone. Not even a slice of spaghetti was getting sold, without him taking tribute". Police was afraid that after the Boss's murder, there was gonna be a war, like nothing New York had seen, which would had burnt the city. Of course, we know that it was an "inside job", orchestrating by Masseria's beloved protege and chief lieutenant, Salvatore Lucania, aka Charlie "Lucky" Luciano. The assassins, were not the "infamous four", Genovese, Adonis, Anastasia and Siegel (with Ciro Terranova as the scared driver-such a rediculous story), but Johnny "Silk Stockings" Giustra and his right-hand man, Carmelo Liconti, both Brooklyn waterfront racketeers, connected with Vincenzo Mngano, who was responsible for the security during the dinner in Coney Island (it was his territory-like the "Tessio thing"). Mangano was part of Luciano's cabal, later rewarded by becoming the boss of his Family. They had arranged this duo for the contract, because they weren't very tied to Masseria, so, if something went wrong, it would had been more believable to the Family, that they had sided with Maranzano. This wasn't a regular contract. Joe the Boss, was the most Powerful Godfather in the whole country. It was needed a way bigger motive than a heavy envelope. They had promised them, a bigger piece of the waterfronts. The hit was succeeded. The restaurant owner, Gerardo Scarpato, was also in the plot, but after realising in what he had participated, he was so scared for the Vendetta by the Masseria loyalists, that he gave the Police his fingerprints, in case they found him dead. Giustra and Liconti, maybe had got the job done, but they had left evidences behind. The Police was suspecting them, but that wasn't their problem. The Masseria soldiers, knew that both the three men were involved in their Godfather's murder. Luciano, and his cabal, knew that if the soldiers would had found out the conspiracy, they all would had been in the barrels. So, the "greaving for Masseria" Luciano, gave the order to avenge the Boss and punish the traitors-assassinos. May 10, 1931. Giustra and Liconti were called to Manhattan, to "resolve a territorial dispute". It was a set-up. They both would have been killed there and then, but Liconti had car trouble and was late to the appointment. The body of Giustra, was found riddled with bullets. When Liconti learned of Giustra's death, he nervously went in hiding, but not for long. His corpse was discovered in the Hotel Paramount on July 9. He had been choked and stabbed to death. The 3rd in the "Joe the Boss Avenging List", was the weasel-restauranteur, Scarpato. He was so scared, that he had left US with his wife, going to Italy. However, for unclear reason, the stronzo returned in New York the next September and of course, got caught by the Boss's "Crusaders". They let's say, used all their art on him and after finishing the "painting", they put him (whatever had left from him) in a sack. Luciano was so "Lucky" (and this time), to pretend the Man of Honor the very right moment, before Don Masseria's "artists", putted him in their "gallery"!!! P.S. I know I wrote a lot, but I had to give you as much information I could. Please, make the video. The Boss deserves it, and it will be a magnificent history video for your channel!!! Thank you in advance

Post more content like this. World war 1n 2 stuff🔥🔥🔥🔥

This was referenced in Mafia II.. my god that game is really accurate...

Weird, Vito Genovese was his buddy, Vito even took out a newspaper guy who wrote some not so nice things about him

0:05 and then Luca Brasi squeezed the tank to death with his pinky finger. Real story.

I’m part of the culture mafia 😮

Damn this is stuff other's don't know of .

I thought he was Don corleone.

My Father grew up in Brooklyn and was in Military Intelligence. He had friends in interesting places ( both in the FBI and Organized Crime.) Another of his Friends was Admiral Ernest King. Pop served as a Go Between. Much of the Invasion of Italy was planned at The Fulton Fish Market

Great historical analysis. Il Duce was the only political leader in Italy, who really crucked Cosa Nostra. But he couldn't totally eliminated them, because this Honorata Societa, is not just a criminal organisation, but a "State inside the State", deeply established in the culture of Sicily, not since 19th century, but since the Roman Empire. Mussolini was stupid to not make them his allies, but hunt them down. By the one or the other way, Cosa Nostra would had reclaim its Power and ruled again its Kingdom, Sicily!!!

Many thanks for listing the video sources to your tremendous channel! Keep up the great work and great use of the theme song 😎

(A late comment.) That was very interesting! (And the scene towards the end of the clip of a Vatican/Catholic official lighting a cigarette was even more "striking"! {I didn't know that they smoke!}) The gambit of getting the Sicilian Mafia bosses in Italy to assist the allied forces in WW2 by soliciting the help of the then American Mafioso, "boss of bosses", one Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was a master stroke! Because on the American side of things, it's a BIG "no no" in the Mafia to get involved with the American Government's affairs! (This is what got Sam Giancana, Johnny Roselli and others "deleted", btw!) But during that time period, Luciano was already permanently exiled back to Italy where the Mafia rules were different or they made an exception to based on their then, current circumstances. Good short video clip! ✌️😐

You mean the Italian Army actually won a campaign?

1 hell of a history video👍👍

Yes, please share this knowledge that was hidden!!! Love the video by the way.

I like the turn you take into pure history here. To bring it back to the Godfather movies, an old friend of mine once pointed out that when Vito returns to Sicily in Part II, the people who meet him at the train station have communist flags, which gives the scenes with Michael in Cuba some interesting additional context. Any thoughts on this?

Luciano was born in lercara friddi which is about 45-50 km from Palermo

Here you understand that the father figure is the most important. #HowTheyLead

So he was Trump before Trump?

1:01 a big blunder ideed

1:04 glad Worf could do a voice over in your video.

Well if it wasn't for Mussolini, my grandparents wouldn't have escaped from Mistretta, Sicily to NY, and I wouldn't be in the US.

This is great,good job

Mori just had a bigger Mafia gang than the bosses in Sicily.

Thanks for the amazing video ❤

"He promised to make Italy great again."

Very interesting story

📖 CHAPTERS: 0:00 The Mafia’s BIGGEST Mistake 1:53 The Rise of the New Emperor 4:09 What is “Cosa Nostra”? 6:09 Mafia VS the Dictator 7:25 The Mafia’s Nightmare 7:55 The Fall of the Mafia 9:53 Escape to America 12:39 “Operation Husky” 15:37 The Unlikely Alliance 18:06 Sicilian Revenge 19:34 The Dark Truth about the World…

Dude, there is a brazilian channel stealing your videos. They take your text word by word and put it in portuguese. It is call Famiglia Corleone.

All these organizations started out like this. It was made to protect the community. They had a purpose. As times went on, betrayal destroyed the purpose. These organizations don't last forever.

19 min I hate to be the one to correct you on that it was not the Italian Sicilian Mafia it was one person that was behind it and he was in the United States citizen as you said he'd become a citizen before he went over there because technically he was the head of the United States Mafia

Apart from an Irish woman called, Violet Gibson in 1926..

He aligned himself with certain elements of the American mafia and other organized crime.. he didn't really eliminate it the way you think

The mafia help with the invasion of Normandy as well😮

Love that in your mind let's get it shaking with a different atmosphere .we can put these jobs back in America.

JFK?...

No offense, but the " began to pull off bold crimes like stealing a bunch of stuff...", was a pretty funny line. 😂

Why did they fear Marlon Brando? Were they afraid of him mooning them??

Pls pray that the system is still fair 🙏

Don't mess with Sicilians.

Mussolini and Party were powerfull. They did not need payroll of Magia. Many politics are in a need 🍸💰

Why is the voice different in this video?

Don Ciccio was real?

They eventually hung him with his mistress. Those two were creeps.

The Sicilian Mafia had the last laugh , and they showed ol' benito who really held the power when they helped the allies take Italy. I guess in the end you can say that El Douche didn't have the " balls " to defeat them.

I love the culture, deep rooted in world history. We are still in the Roman Empire although many cultures will deny their Latin roots like the English. Without realizing that the Alphabet is Latino that Alone makes English half Latin, not to mention 69% of English words are Spanish and don't even change spelling. Like the words ending in TION are Spanish = modern Latin

Im not use to seeing oranges and nobody dies!

how Mussolini crushed the Sicilian Mafia= Mussolini vs the Sicilian Godfather the Dark Story behind the Sicilian Mafia !

Apoco cinderssh ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HEALEY HALL ST JOE PARISH Walnut St

And the charismatic man was a hanged man on the end Lucky Luciano gave good contacts to US government for embarkmant to Sicily. The contradictional association association that confused Americans and Italians.

Was Cesare Mori related to any mobsters my partners family is Sicilian and there Sicilian surname is Mori and his family said way back they had family in the Mafia way way back but idk his nana never really talked about her parents she said to his older cousin that her mum was Italian/Australian decent and his nanas mum's dad was Sicilian his last name was Mori ther was a bakery in sicily called the Mori bakery and there is Mussolini and Mori is related some how also have father's in the Catholic church

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I find it funny they act like Mori is a mobster he's nothing like them he's a cop so there for he's weak lol 😂😂

Correction: "Part of the FAMILY."

Mussolini did not participate on the 'March on Rome' he was terrified and hid at home.

VITO GENOVESE EVEN SNAKED HIS OWN COUNTRYFOLK

The secret often unholy

Real bad ass is to become a Dictator a Powerful Don leader of a nation

Basically Cosmo nauts Frank grease

Nice story

This is preposterous 6😂😊

El Dushbag thrown out in the middle of the night 🌙 😮

Duce went after the Mafia and the church too. Any power base that challenged him.

genovasey thats funny, jen-no-vee-s

When the Americans landed on Sicily, the roads were clogged with welcoming Italian soldiers who wanted to change sides.

Ave il duce

Guy sounds alot like Obiden

Who directed the cutting edge2?

“Below”

F A F O

He promised to make Italy a empire. The business men of Sicily knew mussolini was a blow hard and he would crumble once the war came. Long range man long range.

In the United they fear Juliani

Make Italy great again, he never actually said that but let’s insert that to make an anti trump statement, thumbs down buddy

His statements sounds like the things that Disgraced 45 says, and wishes he could do.

Now you see what your up against. He exposed himself here in America. Yard Man Express civil war right here in America. Elsa Manor

Prior making such a documentary....you should get documented....

Not a very good video especially not showing or telling the downfall and killing of Mussolini.

Cosa Nostra mi paesano ,