Just imagine being his student in school then years later fining out he is a dictator running your country then telling your friends "oh that's my school teacher Mr Mussolini"
"His paper was also financed by industrialists who saw profit in war" One of the big overlooked factors of war is the influence of those who profit from it. Maybe you guys could look into this more? Who financed the war on either sides and for what reasons?
Really a great channel! I have something to share about this video :) My grandmother, who was from Mussolini's town, Predappio, told me many time that at the time, when they were doing some kind of party or celebration Benito was just sitting alone and everyone was kidding him so he was always answer things like "laugh now because one day all the world will tremble at my name".
May I suggest one episode of who did what? I suggest Gabriele d'Annunzio. Thematically speaking, it is related to mussolini and maybe was even more influent than him in ww1
Of course. But I think it is needed a 1 hour special episode, for a such iconic person, for what he did in switching from neutrality to interventism period, in wartime, and for what he did in Fiume.
Great episode. The fact that Britian funded the proto-fascist publication as not known to me, but not surprising, considering how often governments fund the enemy of their enemy, only to have it backfire spectacularly down the line.
I absolutely love this channel! WW1 and WW2, as well as most wars before and around that time absolutely fascinate me. I appreciate that you are getting this information out to the unlearned youth of this generation. Thank you Indy and God bless you and your team!
Lebby Great Well I wouldn't say so. When I read stuff from Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht both would be considered "radical leftists" and they actually knew pretty well what they believed. They knew what they wanted and weren't afraid to take position for that and even to oppose people like Lenin and the Soviet Union in general.
I really appreciate & enjoy y'alls hard work! As a historian myself, I tend to look at historical events through the eyes of the times. Many thanks to y'all for keeping that importance in your work product!
Stalin didn't fight in the Great War. In fact he was in exile in Siberia at the time and while he was drafted, he was deemed medically unfit for service (due to an old arm injury) and doesn't really re-enter the picture until 1917 with the two revolutions.
Best story is about how Mussolini used the same planes only to move said same planes from base to base to show Hitler how powerful his aerial military was.
This is easily one of the best channels on RUclips and criminally underrated. Thanks for reigniting my dormant adoration of history. I want to get me a job at the local military antiquities so I can work with some of the relics, weapons and uniforms from the battlefields of WW1. Even if it's just a job cataloguing stuff. JUST GET ME CLOSE TO THAT HISTORY!!!
i live near predappio (the city where mussolini was born and also the place where he r.i.p.) and so many people from all italy come every day to the cemetry to thank his tomb
One of my relatives was an Italian Journalist and politician and was actually an outspoken opponent of fascism until he was assassinated in 1926. His name was Giovanni Amendola.
I just want to say thanks for your amazing and concise videos. A few years ago I tried to follow your WW1 videos while you were making them but the gore of it all kinda got to me. Now as a world builder (fictional worlds) I'm looking at the idea of having a group demand Independence from their homeland. This has gotten me interested in researching different governments and beliefs such as fascism.
Hey Indie, about the knife part. It actually DOES bear some importance, as the Knife was a major icon of the Fascists. Used heavily by the Italian Arditi troops, which I am sure you know a lot about, since their claim to fame was in fact in WW1. Many (as in a huge portion) of Arditi ended up joining the Fascists after the war, and they carried their trench culture with them. This included the Knife. Your show is great! Keep at it! Love the new intro!
@skullpull 101 Eoin O'Duffy didn't do anything in WW1 he was evolved in the Irish war of independence the Irish civil War and his volunteer brigade were involved in the Spanish civil War
This Johnson is fantastic, both episodes researched are this channel's greatest ones. So many things I and many others had no idea about that change everything.
hey great war could you do a bio of Henry Tandey: the man who suposedly didn't shoot Hitler? i herd about this story and was intrigued but never found all the info about it
Hello guys, first off I love the series, great work. I just wanted to point out that as I understand the facts (confirmed by Wikipedia), Amilcare Cipriani died at a much older age. Although he was indeed condemned to death for his participation in the 1871 Paris Commune, it wouldn't be until 1918 in a Parisian hospital that he drew his last breath.
Question for OUT OF THE TRENCHES: Hi Indy! During the war every country conquered territory of other countries, for example the German Empire conquered many parts of the Russian Czar Empire (former Poland and beyond). How this new gained territory was administrared by the new owners? For example: Became the coquered parts of former Poland part of Prussia and so new prussian provinces or was there a kind of privilegium like for the colonies or Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen? I love this show since the first day! I wish you all the best to continue it!
I know I've asked before about an episode on Billy Bishop, but do not recall if you said you will do one. Will you. Have you? Did I miss it? Thanks to everyone working on this channel. Your efforts are a great honour to the memories of victims of this war: soldiers, civilians, medical workers, men, women, and all the children who didn't even understand what war was.
I was waiting for a special episode on Mussolini, thanks guys. _Do you think you'll cover some WWI strange, unusual or even ''super weapons'' in some upcoming episodes?_
sadly this is explained much better than most Italian high school textbook. The latent anarco-revolutionary aspects, which was fed by the futurist (and the general accelerationism which was everywhere 1910's Europe) are aspects always bypassed from... introductory history materials
Indie just want to say how great your show is, many hours have flown by absorbing your wide range of knowledge it's great! What I think most people forget is that part of the western front was in Germany next to the Swiss border, just wanted to know what happened throughout the war there and did it immediately seise to exist once it reached the border?
Will you guys make a special bio episode on Miklós Horthy? He was the Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian navy and was the governor of Hungary in ww2. Btw love the show and keep up the good work!
Interesting stuff. I've always stoped watching these RUclips documentaries of you and others because the yare always simplistic renderings of easily available information but this goes a bit in depth. I didn't know the fasci's origins like this,. So it wasn't necessarily a right wing ideology that opposed Socialism and Mussolini didn't switch from being a socialist to a fascist. But fascism grew out of an interventionist socialist section that then became both dependent on and associated with industrialist and veterans making it more chauvinistic and rightist.
I wouldn't say it grew out of the Socialist movement. Mussolini is a reject. It's a defection. Similarly, there are other politicians that have jumped during their careers from Conservative to Liberal or Conservative to Socialist. Often for a mixture of personal differences or sometimes ideological (although these are sometimes pretext). This seems more like a political realignment like a footballer moving clubs. Lacking convictions and changing colours in a pragmatic attempt to gain power. Mussolini appears to have be full of cognitive dissonance between trying to follow his father's Socialist beliefs, vs. Having right wing views on women, and nationalism. These right wing beliefs are incompatible with Socialist ideals. It's worth remembering that even right wing political parties have borrowed from Socialist platforms to placate the voting public. Fascism is from a relative point, more right wing than Socialism. From and absolute point, it's right of centre to right wing. Just more authoritarian than most Conservative parties. Fascists get into power when Liberals and Conservative parties have got caught in scandals, become unpopular in government. The public is still rather nationalistic, religious, etc. And the left wing have become a growing threat. Fascists gained support from Conservative Industrialists, Nationalists, Religious establishments who saw Fascism as a way to divert voters away from the left wing and keep the elites in power. I would say that Mussolini chased the money, like some modern RUclips who end up spouting right wing ideas to get donations,
@@Kingofturves Incompatible says who? Do you know that women were not allowed in unions in America at this time for fear of diluting the workforce. A lot could be said about the conspiracy of the industrialist class at this time and the lure they put out to the feminist movement. In a way women gained the right and opportunity to work at the expense of an overall stagnation if not regression of wages relative to the value of permanent things like homes or capital. Ideals change, socialism had its origins in the French revolution that combined both it and liberal and nationalist ideals for a force that made it sweep Europe. In the early 1900's when Mussolini was deciding what path to take the focus on class was not as overwhelming as it later would become. And as we can see today, the class analysis in the west is being replaced with intersectionist relativism in many circles so nothing is permanent. Also Mussolini wasn't a reject at all, he rejected or switched from socialism to his new ideology and took very many followers with him. Nobody made him move, he made others move.
Excellent episode, as usual. Only a small note, which is probably a slip of tongue from Indy, as the dates of his birth and death are mentioned correctly. Amilcare Cipriani was exiled, not killed or executed during the Paris Commune. He actually died some months before the end of WW1. Again, great work, we, the history nerds society, are sincerely grateful.
I love that you guys didn't waste any time talking about his postwar political career. You simply showed a photo of Benito standing next to Adolf...and that was enough.
Hello Mr.Neidell, i want to thank you and your team for the truly inspriring work you are doing with this channel. Many people look up to you and i am sure you will be a role model for a new generation of people that will create RUclips content in the next years and decades. However, the title of this video is misleading. Benito Mussolini abandoned the left wing socialist party Partito Socialista Italiano to establish the right wing socialist party Partito Nazionale Fascista. Many other members of the left wing socialist party, like Michele Bianchi and Roberto Farinacci, followed Mussolinis call to join the right wing socialist movement. Thus, Mussolini and his followers did not go from socialism to fascism, but rather turned from left wing socialism (like communism) to right wing socialism (like fascism or national socialism).
+t. Hauser Sorry, you're saying the title is misleading because Mussolini left the socialists and joined the fascists which is what the title is implying?
What i am saying is that Mussolini abondoned a left wing socialist party to establish a right wing socialist movement. The title tells the viewers that Mussolini actually turned his back on socialism, when in fact he and his followers sticked to the basic ideas of socialism and created a new style of right wing socialism which they called fascism. So the title should be "From left wing Socialist to Right wing Socialist - ...".
"He began to take positions that were anything but socialist? I beg to disagree. the root word of socialism is social for a reason, because it is a method of ideological rule, which operates by complete social enforcement of a single master ideology. Mussolini's fascism, was in every way still socialism, it was still collectivist, still ideological totalitarianism, still focused on centralization of government power, still anti capitalist. He was still socialist, just outside of the mainstream global socialist establishment.
Stalin. He was evil, but he was also the most successful dictator of all time. He turned his third world country into a nuclear superpower by the time he died.
The Arditi and Storm Troops were the "new man" : a soldier with a cause and not just an automaton. The archetype originated in the Landwehr of Scharnhorst's and Gneisenau's time, in the wars of liberation from Napoleon, after the "Kadaverarmie" failed at Jena and Auerstadt. Much of European History is lost to Americans because our Revolution was mirrored in Europe by the French Revolution, which took a different course.
That is a picture from the desk of Mussolini as a director of "Il Popolo d'Italia" after the war. It was located in Milan, Via Paolo da Canobbio 35, and it also was the home of many Arditi. There were strong boundaries between them and Mussolini, they were among the first "squadristi" to fight against socialists and they protected the offices of the newspaper from political opponents during that very violent period.
Very intersting! It is fantastic to learn about the humanity of all of these historical figures. Beautiful channel guys! You have earned my subscription!
Bravissimo Indy, Flo and the rest of TGW team! Please, do one on Elftherios Venizellos - the greatest greek in modern greek history (what W. Churchill was to the UK). He struggled to get greece into the war efford on the Entente's side, what happened later in the war... I would be happy to assist any way I can. Keep up the good work!
The alternate title of this video must be: Maturing - How experience brings forth wisdom. Little Benito took the long and hard way of learning how to look at the world, but he succeeded in seeing the truth.
When I read the Fascist Manifesto and learned about various policies of Mussolini's government during college it was stunning to me just how similar Fascism and Socialism were. Now, granted, I knew there were a lot of similarities between how the two systems of government conducted themselves, but for a pair that is constantly depicted as being on opposite sides of the political spectrum I expected them to have a few more major differences policy-wise than just whether they like putting an "in" in front of "nationalism" or not. Looking at Mussolini's life though, it's easy to see why that is. A socialist who traded in his internationalist streak for national pride. All while still being a knife-wielding jerk.
So here I am, just finished a small session of Hearts of Iron IV as Italy (strategy game set on WWII, so yea, Mussolini) and then see this on my subscriptions xD
Mussolini's power came from both the shape of his skull, and its bone matter. His brain was relatively less important. In this sense his skull ranks among the most powerful skulls in history.
benito mussolini truly was a very interesting man who had he been in a different place in a different time he could of been an much bigger influence in the world but just could never be as important as hitler churchill stalin and FDR
Fascism was essentially a socialist movement, and as thus was until the very end. The “vae victis” angloamerican propaganda would like have it differently, but the whole of Italy is still dotted with concrete reforms that benefitted the general populace. Every single council house in Rome was built during the Fascist era, and there were untold financial advantages and benefits for whoever wanted to start a business, a family, or had financial trouble. Italy had a well-established Child Benefit - 30 years before Britain! There is no doubt that under Mussolini Italy became a world power. It wasn’t perfect, but even Lenin, shortly before his death, declared Mussolini as “the only committed socialist in Europe”. Viva Il Duce!
WWI has never, traditionally gotten a lot of love in terms of historical docs. and entertainment, so your channel is truly amazing. With that said, I've seen quite a few episodes that focus on specific battles, but major events, such as Vimy Ridge, and passchendaele have only gotten casual mentions as smaller parts of other stories. What's up with that?
Fascism is socialism. They are both left wing. Right wing is monarchy and aristocracy. One step to the left of monarchy is oligarchy. Anything that has to do with a group ( social) government is left wing, like fascism. Communism and fascism is a fight within the same left wing. Come on people, stop calling fascism right wing, that's pathetic ignorance. Study the terms.
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Just imagine being his student in school then years later fining out he is a dictator running your country then telling your friends "oh that's my school teacher Mr Mussolini"
Great example for the importance and unchangebility of "public opinion" :D or is it?
Ruined?
He was just the right guy to be elementary teacher.
Yes, we used to call him Signor Mussolini, but now he’s “Il Duce”...
I was thinking the exact same thing. That must’ve been wild
"His paper was also financed by industrialists who saw profit in war" One of the big overlooked factors of war is the influence of those who profit from it. Maybe you guys could look into this more? Who financed the war on either sides and for what reasons?
+xisumavoid We will absolutely do that. It's just such a big topic that we're going to take a long time for that.
Read up on Gen. Smedley Butler he wrote about just that after ww1(well after our banana wars).
all wars are banker's wars.
The Latest Meme Ah but then there's the question who control these bankers no?
Not everyday you see a minecraft youtuber here.
Mussolini was a true Italian connoisseur. He made the trains run on thyme.
yeah, so deportations always left on time
Ahahahaha
i dont even know that this joke was used outside italy
here in italy is a famous joke
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well, I live in Italy, so I tried to export it
***** you did bene
_I'm not two-faced, I simply have a private and a public self._ Lol!
Most people do or they would lose their jobs.
noice.
That is a great quote.
@@adamcochran1309 Everyone does whether they admit to it or not.
Something that Japanese would say, not Italian.
Really a great channel!
I have something to share about this video :)
My grandmother, who was from Mussolini's town, Predappio, told me many time that at the time, when they were doing some kind of party or celebration Benito was just sitting alone and everyone was kidding him so he was always answer things like "laugh now because one day all the world will tremble at my name".
Classico storia dei cattivi nei film
Splendid episode. This has background detail I was not aware of. Mussolini is a much more interesting personality than he gets credit for.
Paid with his Life...power trek..
R.I.P.
Austria-Hungary
Intergalactic Human Empire lang leb osterreich-ungern
@@awesomestick lang lebe der Kaiser
thank to the little French Army
Just found out that my great great grandpas brother was Mussolini business partner, his last name was Rossato same as mine. Small world.
Damn that’s pretty cool
I wonder how Alessandra Mussoulini would treat you
oh yeah, that guy
May I suggest one episode of who did what? I suggest Gabriele d'Annunzio. Thematically speaking, it is related to mussolini and maybe was even more influent than him in ww1
FUCK YES
Of course. But I think it is needed a 1 hour special episode, for a such iconic person, for what he did in switching from neutrality to interventism period, in wartime, and for what he did in Fiume.
+Matteo Carta but he is a great charcter and he must have an episode in this channel xD
On Fiume walls some of the most important words that make me love my Country and its citizens "ITALIA O MORTE" (Italy or death)
Great episode. The fact that Britian funded the proto-fascist publication as not known to me, but not surprising, considering how often governments fund the enemy of their enemy, only to have it backfire spectacularly down the line.
Here's a bit more about that. www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/13/benito-mussolini-recruited-mi5-italy
Churchill praised Mussolini even after the war.
Nah actually a lot of brits were fan of Mussolini
My great great uncle was Mussolini's ambassador to Spain, then Belgium. in 1919 he was a secretary at the Paris Peace Talks
I absolutely love this channel! WW1 and WW2, as well as most wars before and around that time absolutely fascinate me. I appreciate that you are getting this information out to the unlearned youth of this generation. Thank you Indy and God bless you and your team!
Doesnt even sound like Mussolini knew what Mussolini believed.
This is a common trait in fascists.
Lebby Great And "anarcho"-capitalists
In Italians as a whole as well. They just don't know what they want. This is why this guy said that he exemplified Italianness
Lebby Great Well I wouldn't say so. When I read stuff from Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht both would be considered "radical leftists" and they actually knew pretty well what they believed. They knew what they wanted and weren't afraid to take position for that and even to oppose people like Lenin and the Soviet Union in general.
Krixig it doesnt sound like you know what fascism is
When you realize when a dictator was your teacher
Meanwhile the students: 👁👄👁
I really appreciate & enjoy y'alls hard work! As a historian myself, I tend to look at historical events through the eyes of the times. Many thanks to y'all for keeping that importance in your work product!
+One Smooth Stone Thanks, glad you liked it.
So I guess the next who did what is going to be Stalin? or Lenin maybe?
I hope for Stalin
He did fight in Polish-Bolsheviks war... but I'm not sure if he fight before that in Great War.
I think they did
A bio about Lenin will probably come next year, around the time the Germans smuggled him over to Russia.
Stalin didn't fight in the Great War. In fact he was in exile in Siberia at the time and while he was drafted, he was deemed medically unfit for service (due to an old arm injury) and doesn't really re-enter the picture until 1917 with the two revolutions.
How can one be expelled from a country for 'using knives' ?
He can't. In fact, this garbage is not history but just silly gossip.
@Basil II, The Bulgar Slayer Mussolini has never stabbed anyone. Gossipy history of WWI.
@@vagadellestelle Who said anything about stabbing someone?
Well they arrest people for having butter knives in the UK now..
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath: Always carry around a tub of butter and a slice of toast so that you have a valid reason to carry that butter knife.
I have been waiting so long for this episode! By the way, I loved the episode you guys did on Ireland during WW1. It was fantastic!
Thanks!
Best story is about how Mussolini used the same planes only to move said same planes from base to base to show Hitler how powerful his aerial military was.
Bobba Thefett That's great lol
Italy had such a weak military XD
@@mardukgilgamesh1500 Their military weak in tools. Italian men were extremely competent.
They had just been unified for no longer than 100 years
@@emocowboy4684 i know italians were strong fren :D
@@emocowboy4684 Italy was only partially unified in 1870. It can be argued that Italy didn't fully unify until the 1970s.
This is easily one of the best channels on RUclips and criminally underrated. Thanks for reigniting my dormant adoration of history. I want to get me a job at the local military antiquities so I can work with some of the relics, weapons and uniforms from the battlefields of WW1. Even if it's just a job cataloguing stuff. JUST GET ME CLOSE TO THAT HISTORY!!!
i live near predappio (the city where mussolini was born and also the place where he r.i.p.) and so many people from all italy come every day to the cemetry to thank his tomb
Heard about that. Highly alienating to the Germans from our team.
I thought the Italian people despised the legacy of Mussolini
Baldrick The dung spreader That is not true at all really. Many people are fond of him, and I mean a lot, including myself.
@@genoa5606 it's not something to be proud of
@@baldrickthedungspreader3107 lies :v
"Featuring Mussolini" is a tagline you will never see on any musical track, ever. I can almost guarantee that.
I'll have to get the boys to put that on our next lp, now.
One of my relatives was an Italian Journalist and politician and was actually an outspoken opponent of fascism until he was assassinated in 1926. His name was Giovanni Amendola.
Thats ironic cause the philosopher of facism was also called Giovanni (Gentila)
@@mobscene111 there are actually a lot of Giovanni in Italy😂
@@Niko-1303 maybe, but there's only one Giovanni Gentila and unless you're a fascist, socialist or communist you wouldn't appreciate his ideology
@@mobscene111 where did I say that I appreciate this ideology? Because I don't find it anywhere
@@Niko-1303 my mistake I thought you were a socialist
I just want to say thanks for your amazing and concise videos.
A few years ago I tried to follow your WW1 videos while you were making them but the gore of it all kinda got to me.
Now as a world builder (fictional worlds) I'm looking at the idea of having a group demand Independence from their homeland. This has gotten me interested in researching different governments and beliefs such as fascism.
Hey Indie, about the knife part. It actually DOES bear some importance, as the Knife was a major icon of the Fascists. Used heavily by the Italian Arditi troops, which I am sure you know a lot about, since their claim to fame was in fact in WW1. Many (as in a huge portion) of Arditi ended up joining the Fascists after the war, and they carried their trench culture with them. This included the Knife.
Your show is great! Keep at it! Love the new intro!
"He used a lot knives, and after education became an elementary school teacher." Yikes.
can you do an Oswald Mosley in WW1?
The Gang weed man
ETERNAL ANGLO
Bro gang weed man
Mosley was the GOAT.
@skullpull 101 Eoin O'Duffy didn't do anything in WW1 he was evolved in the Irish war of independence the Irish civil War and his volunteer brigade were involved in the Spanish civil War
awesome series dude.
would love to see what Trotsky (or really what any other major Bolshevik) was doing during ww1.
keep up the great work dude.
Watch "Europa the last battle." It talks all about these issues. Basically the Bolsheviks were super evil people.
Great episode, thank you!!!
Very well done! Congratulations.
I really, really hope you guys do a WW2 channel after the conclusion of this series.
m.reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel/comments/4ksvy2/will_you_guys_ever_do_a_ww2_channel_our_official/?compact=true
Awesome as always!
Maybe a "Who were they" video devoted to Céline eventually?
+Louis Haumont Not sure yet.
+The Great War No worries! Thanks a bunch for the response though c:
Died during the Paris Commune in 1918? Wut.
Sorry, was condemned to death for is part in the Paris Commune.
Sorry! He was condemned to death, but lived on to fight until 1918.
I guess so!
Italy,sei tu Australia
This Johnson is fantastic, both episodes researched are this channel's greatest ones. So many things I and many others had no idea about that change everything.
+metalema6 Yes, Madeleines reaearch is top notch.
I would love to help with the research where can I contact Flo so I can start help and phenomenally excellent work you're doing
+Elbert Pham You can drop me a message on Facebook.
hey great war could you do a bio of Henry Tandey: the man who suposedly didn't shoot Hitler? i herd about this story and was intrigued but never found all the info about it
Hello guys, first off I love the series, great work.
I just wanted to point out that as I understand the facts (confirmed by Wikipedia), Amilcare Cipriani died at a much older age. Although he was indeed condemned to death for his participation in the 1871 Paris Commune, it wouldn't be until 1918 in a Parisian hospital that he drew his last breath.
Please do a Bio about
Japanese Emperor Yoshihito during WWI :)
Question for OUT OF THE TRENCHES: Hi Indy! During the war every country conquered territory of other countries, for example
the German Empire conquered many parts of the Russian Czar Empire (former Poland and beyond). How this new gained territory was administrared by the new owners? For example: Became the coquered parts of former Poland part of Prussia and so new prussian provinces or was there a kind of privilegium like for the colonies or Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen?
I love this show since the first day! I wish you all the best to continue it!
Thanks for finally doing an episode on me.
Benito Mussolini hows hitler doing these days?
Sup?
well, started watching in January, and all caught up now :)
243 video's is a lot!!!
love the series
Glad that you enjoyed the ride.
I know I've asked before about an episode on Billy Bishop, but do not recall if you said you will do one. Will you. Have you? Did I miss it?
Thanks to everyone working on this channel. Your efforts are a great honour to the memories of victims of this war: soldiers, civilians, medical workers, men, women, and all the children who didn't even understand what war was.
I was waiting for a special episode on Mussolini, thanks guys.
_Do you think you'll cover some WWI strange, unusual or even ''super weapons'' in some upcoming episodes?_
"I know the knife thing isn't really important, but I thought it interesting".
It sure is.
I have the same Birthday as Mussolini. I don't know how to feel about this.
So do several dozens of millions of people.
just ignore the thing
I have the same birthday as Stalin but also the demise of the USSR. Go figure
Marco R. Mussolini is underrated
I share a birthday with Hideki Tojo.
sadly this is explained much better than most Italian high school textbook. The latent anarco-revolutionary aspects, which was fed by the futurist (and the general accelerationism which was everywhere 1910's Europe) are aspects always bypassed from... introductory history materials
Thank you for teaching us this history, dear friend.
Indie just want to say how great your show is, many hours have flown by absorbing your wide range of knowledge it's great! What I think most people forget is that part of the western front was in Germany next to the Swiss border, just wanted to know what happened throughout the war there and did it immediately seise to exist once it reached the border?
His autobiography was an amazing read; one of my favorite books ever
What is the book title? I’d like to read it
Will you guys make a special bio episode on Miklós Horthy? He was the Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian navy and was the governor of Hungary in ww2. Btw love the show and keep up the good work!
+Small Loan Of A Million Dollars Probably. At least there will be a Hungary episode.
+The Great War I'm happy to hear that you recognize our small nation, because many people see Hungary as a part of Austria.
Great video, very well done. I usually don`t comment on youtube videos but this one got my attention!
Muy breve, pero bien documentado. ¡¡Bravo!!
Interesting stuff. I've always stoped watching these RUclips documentaries of you and others because the yare always simplistic renderings of easily available information but this goes a bit in depth. I didn't know the fasci's origins like this,. So it wasn't necessarily a right wing ideology that opposed Socialism and Mussolini didn't switch from being a socialist to a fascist. But fascism grew out of an interventionist socialist section that then became both dependent on and associated with industrialist and veterans making it more chauvinistic and rightist.
I wouldn't say it grew out of the Socialist movement.
Mussolini is a reject.
It's a defection.
Similarly, there are other politicians that have jumped during their careers from Conservative to Liberal or Conservative to Socialist.
Often for a mixture of personal differences or sometimes ideological (although these are sometimes pretext).
This seems more like a political realignment like a footballer moving clubs.
Lacking convictions and changing colours in a pragmatic attempt to gain power.
Mussolini appears to have be full of cognitive dissonance between trying to follow his father's Socialist beliefs, vs. Having right wing views on women, and nationalism.
These right wing beliefs are incompatible with Socialist ideals.
It's worth remembering that even right wing political parties have borrowed from Socialist platforms to placate the voting public.
Fascism is from a relative point, more right wing than Socialism.
From and absolute point, it's right of centre to right wing.
Just more authoritarian than most Conservative parties.
Fascists get into power when Liberals and Conservative parties have got caught in scandals, become unpopular in government. The public is still rather nationalistic, religious, etc.
And the left wing have become a growing threat.
Fascists gained support from Conservative Industrialists, Nationalists, Religious establishments who saw Fascism as a way to divert voters away from the left wing and keep the elites in power.
I would say that Mussolini chased the money, like some modern RUclips who end up spouting right wing ideas to get donations,
@@Kingofturves Incompatible says who? Do you know that women were not allowed in unions in America at this time for fear of diluting the workforce. A lot could be said about the conspiracy of the industrialist class at this time and the lure they put out to the feminist movement. In a way women gained the right and opportunity to work at the expense of an overall stagnation if not regression of wages relative to the value of permanent things like homes or capital.
Ideals change, socialism had its origins in the French revolution that combined both it and liberal and nationalist ideals for a force that made it sweep Europe. In the early 1900's when Mussolini was deciding what path to take the focus on class was not as overwhelming as it later would become.
And as we can see today, the class analysis in the west is being replaced with intersectionist relativism in many circles so nothing is permanent.
Also Mussolini wasn't a reject at all, he rejected or switched from socialism to his new ideology and took very many followers with him. Nobody made him move, he made others move.
Europe: on war
Switzerland: your gamemode is in spectator mode
i'm surprised you left you the part where he stabbed a teacher of his
Excellent episode, as usual. Only a small note, which is probably a slip of tongue from Indy, as the dates of his birth and death are mentioned correctly. Amilcare Cipriani was exiled, not killed or executed during the Paris Commune. He actually died some months before the end of WW1. Again, great work, we, the history nerds society, are sincerely grateful.
It's actually my fault. He was condemned to death for his participation in Commune.
I love that you guys didn't waste any time talking about his postwar political career. You simply showed a photo of Benito standing next to Adolf...and that was enough.
I'm guessing Mussolini was where the term "egghead" came from
Hello Mr.Neidell, i want to thank you and your team for the truly inspriring work you are doing with this channel. Many people look up to you and i am sure you will be a role model for a new generation of people that will create RUclips content in the next years and decades.
However, the title of this video is misleading.
Benito Mussolini abandoned the left wing socialist party Partito Socialista Italiano to establish the right wing socialist party Partito Nazionale Fascista. Many other members of the left wing socialist party, like Michele Bianchi and Roberto Farinacci, followed Mussolinis call to join the right wing socialist movement.
Thus, Mussolini and his followers did not go from socialism to fascism, but rather turned from left wing socialism (like communism) to right wing socialism (like fascism or national socialism).
+t. Hauser Sorry, you're saying the title is misleading because Mussolini left the socialists and joined the fascists which is what the title is implying?
What i am saying is that Mussolini abondoned a left wing socialist party to establish a right wing socialist movement. The title tells the viewers that Mussolini actually turned his back on socialism, when in fact he and his followers sticked to the basic ideas of socialism and created a new style of right wing socialism which they called fascism. So the title should be "From left wing Socialist to Right wing Socialist - ...".
+t. Hauser Fascism is leftwing... He never stopped his left leaning ideology.
...or "from left wing socialism to a brand new concept of right wing socialism: fascism - " buuuut that's rather long
+t. Hauser Well, but that's A too long for a RUclips title and B also not implying the importance of the fasci in Italy
"He began to take positions that were anything but socialist? I beg to disagree. the root word of socialism is social for a reason, because it is a method of ideological rule, which operates by complete social enforcement of a single master ideology. Mussolini's fascism, was in every way still socialism, it was still collectivist, still ideological totalitarianism, still focused on centralization of government power, still anti capitalist. He was still socialist, just outside of the mainstream global socialist establishment.
@Adrian Caswell even socialist country have 1%(now called oligarchy) take a look at USSR? Aren't that a bit ironic? 🤔😂😂
Wow, This episode of Who Did What? was probably my favourite so far, a fascinating story! keep up the good work!
Thank you for the knife thing Indy!
he is my favoret dictator gaddafi is a close 2nd
Mine is Ian Smith, and Antonio Salazar if you only count dictators.
Franco
Stalin. He was evil, but he was also the most successful dictator of all time. He turned his third world country into a nuclear superpower by the time he died.
Pinochet?
polifatts Pinochet is my favorite dictator.
8:50 Why a picture of the Arditi?
Their symbol was used after the war a lot.
Ah, where was it taken? Because you also used it in a video about the Arditi.The Great War
The Arditi and Storm Troops were the "new man" : a soldier with a cause and not just an automaton. The archetype originated in the Landwehr of Scharnhorst's and Gneisenau's time, in the wars of liberation from Napoleon, after the "Kadaverarmie" failed at Jena and Auerstadt. Much of European History is lost to Americans because our Revolution was mirrored in Europe by the French Revolution, which took a different course.
That is a picture from the desk of Mussolini as a director of "Il Popolo d'Italia" after the war. It was located in Milan, Via Paolo da Canobbio 35, and it also was the home of many Arditi. There were strong boundaries between them and Mussolini, they were among the first "squadristi" to fight against socialists and they protected the offices of the newspaper from political opponents during that very violent period.
Wow. Sounds like his early years were very similar to Stalin's. It's ironic how he turned out to be Fascist instead of a Communist.
Two sides of the same coin.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath what
Great insights Nidel. Thansj
I love your guys channel!
Are you guys going to do a Great War Special on J. R. R. Tolkien?
They already did.
it does already exist.
I heard during WW2 and after he kind of just hung around.
*Hung around*
Fascinating.
Я Смерть fascistnating Lol
Yes.
Very intersting!
It is fantastic to learn about the humanity of all of these historical figures. Beautiful channel guys! You have earned my subscription!
This is great character development
Bravissimo Indy, Flo and the rest of TGW team!
Please, do one on Elftherios Venizellos - the greatest greek in modern greek history (what W. Churchill was to the UK). He struggled to get greece into the war efford on the Entente's side, what happened later in the war...
I would be happy to assist any way I can.
Keep up the good work!
+Admiral LongStash There will be more Greece coverage for sure.
Continuing on that whole Mussolini knife thing he stabbed his friend with one when he was 6
The alternate title of this video must be:
Maturing - How experience brings forth wisdom.
Little Benito took the long and hard way of learning how to look at the world, but he succeeded in seeing the truth.
Yes thank you Indy, keep up the great vids.
I love these videos! They are very educational and informative. I myself am very interested in WWI. New sub!
Welcome to the show.
Do Radola Gajda (a.k.a. Rudolf Geidl)!
He is called by some "Czech Duce" ;)
When I read the Fascist Manifesto and learned about various policies of Mussolini's government during college it was stunning to me just how similar Fascism and Socialism were. Now, granted, I knew there were a lot of similarities between how the two systems of government conducted themselves, but for a pair that is constantly depicted as being on opposite sides of the political spectrum I expected them to have a few more major differences policy-wise than just whether they like putting an "in" in front of "nationalism" or not.
Looking at Mussolini's life though, it's easy to see why that is. A socialist who traded in his internationalist streak for national pride. All while still being a knife-wielding jerk.
The Difference is that Fascism is actually functional and not Treasonous
It isn't.
So a socialist.
+Cody Fett, I figured out the same thing. Fascism probably belongs in the leftmost centre of the political spectrum, if its in use anymore
XXGDUBSXX And that's why communism still exists today and fascism doesn't. Because fascism totally works.
What is the name of the propaganda cartoon at 6:23 and happy 4th of July everyone.
'Useless offers', by Aurelio Bertiglia.
Much obliged partner.
Trey Lower Fun fact: All of them are offering each other's territories...
Well obviously. They aren't going to give away their own land.
Thank you for doing these bio specials on the future leaders!!!
This was awesome thanks for doing the video.
Glad you liked it.
So here I am, just finished a small session of Hearts of Iron IV as Italy (strategy game set on WWII, so yea, Mussolini) and then see this on my subscriptions xD
+RomanImperialXII We are in your head.
could you also talk about Manfred von Richthofen aka the Red Baron?
again?
+Karl Karlos did he already do that?
+Subaru Mapping That was the fist bio we ever did.
+Subaru Mapping Yea, he's done a bio on him I think.
he already did
Do a video on Rosa luxemburg
TL;DR: Social Democrats killed Rosa Luxemburg
Illya Lypyak well the Freikorps did to be exact
@@cherryslat5702 yes, but it was friedrich ebert who called them.
I'm legit surprised at all this info on Mussolini's early days.Its all new to me.
Great video. :)
The Lewis Gun (0:21) in the intro is unloaded.
+James Hardy That's how well they staged photos back then.
7:47 lmao I thought the doctor was Stalin
Inb4 "duhhh the fascisms and the socialisms r teh sam tings".
too late brotha, they're already here jerking off to a picture of Ronald Reagan.
The world is doomed
People like to flaunt their ignorance.
2 l8
inb4 socialism is the right way
From Socialist to Fascist - Bernie Sanders World War III
3C-FD isn't Bernie a Liberal Socialists?
John Smith oof. That hurt more than shotguns.
"I know the knife thing isn't important, but I thought it was interesting". Agreed! I thought it was interesting too! Great video, as always! :)
Vacillate. I learned a new word and info about Benito of course. Thanks!
Dang, he looked like a straight-up thug even when he was younger!
Great Episode, Thanks Much!
Happy 240th Birthday to The USA!
+James White His autograph photos are hilarious
Mussolini's power came from both the shape of his skull, and its bone
matter. His brain was relatively less important. In this sense his
skull ranks among the most powerful skulls in history.
benito mussolini truly was a very interesting man who had he been in a different place in a different time he could of been an much bigger influence in the world but just could never be as important as hitler churchill stalin and FDR
A very good episode about a vary pompous man that help craddle WW2. Well done. :)
4:40 Wait... Mussolini was Hillary Clinton?
Was looking for this comment.
Alexandra Ortez Why?:P
'Cause if someone didn't make it, I would. But I was pretty sure I wouldn't be the only one thinking of it.
Alexandra Ortez Aw. You're right. I'm not the only one who made the joke.XD
d dave Only difference was that he got into power
Wait. A socialist turning into a brutal dictator? Whhhaaaaaaaaaaat? When in history has that ever happened? ...........
+Roland Deschain he didn't lead Italy into a war that he started
Read the title one more time mate
Brutal? Mussolini was great for Italy and is still revered to this day because of it.
Roland Deschain Germans were responsible for this.
mussolini was hanged by his own people
Freaking amazing, so the UK sponsored... no let me rephrase that... fuelled Mussolini's road to fascism?
And Germany helped the Bolsheviks seize power
I have to sadly conclude that of all the mistakes made during the Great War, this was not one that humanity learned from.
Here's a news article about it. www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/13/benito-mussolini-recruited-mi5-italy
Fascism was essentially a socialist movement, and as thus was until the very end. The “vae victis” angloamerican propaganda would like have it differently, but the whole of Italy is still dotted with concrete reforms that benefitted the general populace. Every single council house in Rome was built during the Fascist era, and there were untold financial advantages and benefits for whoever wanted to start a business, a family, or had financial trouble. Italy had a well-established Child Benefit - 30 years before Britain! There is no doubt that under Mussolini Italy became a world power. It wasn’t perfect, but even Lenin, shortly before his death, declared Mussolini as “the only committed socialist in Europe”. Viva Il Duce!
WWI has never, traditionally gotten a lot of love in terms of historical docs. and entertainment, so your channel is truly amazing. With that said, I've seen quite a few episodes that focus on specific battles, but major events, such as Vimy Ridge, and passchendaele have only gotten casual mentions as smaller parts of other stories. What's up with that?
*****
Thanks for that Indy. I look forward to seeing them.
Fascism is socialism. They are both left wing. Right wing is monarchy and aristocracy. One step to the left of monarchy is oligarchy. Anything that has to do with a group ( social) government is left wing, like fascism. Communism and fascism is a fight within the same left wing. Come on people, stop calling fascism right wing, that's pathetic ignorance. Study the terms.
Fascism is ultra nationalism. Hitler and Mussolini privatized their business. It opposes state ownership of goods.