Mussolini doesn't get talked about enough. Reading his wikiquote page, he was a far more impressive and intelligent individual than Hitler. Why isn't he talked about more? Here are some quotes for example:
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day."
"If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state."
"Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.… National pride has no need of the delirium of race"
"I have no love for the Jews, but they have great influence everywhere. It is better to leave them alone. Hitler's antisemitism has already brought him more enemies than is necessary."
age of the eternal teuton and anglo aim to suppress ETERNAL MED SURPREMACY
Jason Sullivan
he was such a idealistic socialist when he was young due to his father, the army and the great depression made him a realist
Robert Taylor
What about Franco?
Alexander Anderson
Franco was a treacherous opportunist. He was a simple conservative that used falange and his old army buddies to gain his personal objectives. Mussolini was waaay verter and interesting.
spanish here.
Julian Stewart
Mussolini led his nation into a series of disastrous conflicts, overbuild his military instead of developing his economy, sabotaged his own anti mafia crusaders, and generally acted the part of a buffoon.
Easton Roberts
Antonio de Salazar is another forgotten gem.
Alexander Smith
It's hilarious that the battle for dominance over the med in WW2 was between two countries completely outside of it.
Luke Nelson
Mussolini was a meme like his country
Jack Reed
based salazar
Justin Green
Britain and Italy
Germany had a meme Navy. And Spanish Navy was basically destroyed after civil war.
Jaxon Smith
>Mussolini doesn't get talked about enough. this seems to be the mandatory thread of the daily mussolini thread...
Sebastian Edwards
mandatory phrase*
Liam James
"Dottore Pavel, sono PNF"
Parker Garcia
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Nolan Ramirez
Mussolini: >Uniting Italy and Vatican (by minimal compromise of allowing religious studies in primary schools) - something considered impossible by the liberal governments preceeding March on Rome and the unity broken by the 'Christian'/Socialist coalition governments following him >Ending class hatred and forming (almost) Corporative state; not going full retard with five- or four-year-plan with the aim of heavy armament (but thus in 1938 no longer could stop the Anschluss like in 1934 - when four Italian divisions alone stopped it and when Anglos and France did nothing) >Being the good guy loved by every conservative Anglo-Saxon before being forced to form the Italian Empire and finally being forced to the Germans, because of the complete indifference to the European peace by Brittons and French >Not being blindly Nationalist (knowing full well that Italians are nothing but Mediterraean bastards of many nations) like the ('He's mad, he's mad!') Austrian steeling the opportunistic parts of his political system >Loved by the Italian Popolo, who always flogged the streets before Palazo Venezia, cheering 'Duce' so enthustiacally that he coudn't deliver a speech; the same Popolo playing innocent 'Anti-Fascists' and joining the 'resistance' en masse after the Communist partisans had summary executed him and his lover Petacci and after the Allies had liberated Italy from German occupation >The Fascist Italians, who didn't release a single Jew to the Germans before the formation RSI (which obviously was a German puppet state, in which Duce had no power at all) and formed refuges for the Jews in areas occupied by them in France and the East.
Meanwhile, today he is remembered like a lame Hitler sidekick
Michael James
This reads like black shirt propoganda. The only good thing Musso did was the Vatican pact
Ethan Hill
>opportunist
If that is the case, why didn't he join the axis? Spain would have won the battle of Gibraltar
Michael Campbell
>Mussolini doesn't get talked about enough. Reading his wikiquote page, he was a far more impressive and intelligent individual than Hitler. His government, if anything, was even more incompetent and mismanaged than Hitler's. Hitler at the very least had extremely broad popular support and didn't really have to worry about intriguing against him from within his own party. People who crossed him either disappeared in the middle of the night or ended up in concentration camps. Mussolini had to tapdance to make sure his own ministers couldn't unseat him, which led to rapid fire policy shifts (nothing gets done) and appointing people to posts based on personal loyalty or coalition building, and not whether they had any fucking idea what they were doing.
Blake Perry
Yeah; he was smart in philosophy. But he didnt know how the fuck to improve his military or plan his economy. He was a meh tier leader.
They would have had to contend with the Royal Navy for Gibraltar. Granted the RN may not have been able to prevent the Rock from being overrun with fire support alone, but the Spainish Navy would have been annihilated on the open seas. Furthermore, Spain was utterly devastated after the Civil War and was in no condition to participate in a major war. Franco' regime was still trying to consolidate their rule over the country and the Allies would certainly try to provide backing for any potential partisan groups.
Franco could have perhaps gained Gibraltar by joining the Axis but he had far more to lose from that commitment. Unlike Musso and Hitler, he was not motivated by any sense of destiny for making his nation into a world power.
Alexander Gonzalez
>"Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.… National pride has no need of the delirium of race"
This is totally true, and I see this time and time again. Race, ethnicity, and nationality can be created and destroyed. Look at Turks. Many of them are decended from Byzantines, or were abducted from Europe. They adopted the culture of their conquorors and lost their original identity.
