My grandfather was one of the lucky people who got the chance to spit on him during that night and he used to say that after all the pain and loss that he and his family endured for years, it was his greatest achievement. I pass near piazzale loreto, the plaza where it happened, almost every day because of work and it feels incredible thinking that the mfs were hanged there
My grandma mantained till her death 5 years ago that Mussolini was the Best leader italy ever had, my dad was a communist supporter so fights at home were wild 😂
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Yeah because all theh heard was fascist propaganda, then Italians dropped dead like flies thanks to his awful leadership and food ran out and people learned the truth the hard way.
@The Phantom of George Wallace Yeah it was decent up untill the war don't get me wrong but the propaganda was strong in that period, I mean people still say "when he ruled things were better" here in Italy to this day, when under every metric possible Italy is doing better now. It's basically become a meme nowadays because of how many times you hear delusional boomers say it.
My grandfather was born in NYC, but moved to Italy when he was a little boy. The Italian government tried to force him into the army but due to my grandfather being an American citizen, he was able to flee the country and return to the United States leaving behind his family. He ended up being drafted into the US army for the Italian front just a few years later and at first worked with pigeons before being made an interrogation officer when they realized he was educated and spoke three languages fluently. Funnily enough, he ended up having to have to question his old school principal who used to beat the hell out him and lock him in closets. He didn't kill him, but made his stay hell.
@@mikatu There were laws made to make sure sure they never get to be an empire again. Japan can’t even have an actual military anymore, and that’s pretty crucial for an empire. With the presence of American bases and culture since the 50’s, it’s arguably kind of a US territory. Japan ceased to be an empire when they surrendered in 1945
My father was in the Italian navy during Mussolinis reign and he loved him because my grandmother didn’t have to pay the mafia anymore for so called “protection” for running a food business. Mussolini ran the mafia out of the country during his reign and my dad hated the mafia but then when Mussolini lost power and was killed the mob resurfaced and my dad was forced to come to this country.
In fact there were various connections between the Allies (notably the US) and the mafia before the landing in Sicily. Which would also explain the complete lack of reaction (combined with war fatigue and a pervasive dissatisfaction with the regime)
My ex's grandfather, who was a staunch anti-fascist, escaped the secret police and jumped on the first boat leaving Italy when he was only 17 years old. He arrived in Argentina with just the clothes on his back. He later married the daughter of Italian immigrants and had a family. I got to meet him shortly before his death in 2009. He had never gone back to Italy, and never saw his family again.
@@okay9574 It's sometimes overlooked by countries like the USSR and Nazi Germany. Similar thing with Imperial Japan (even more interesting is Japan before the militarists took over, because it was already a very authoritarian country under the Meiji Constitution).
I have never understood why my grandfather, until is death (4 years ago) has always defended Mussolini, even though he soffered war, starvation, he lost some of his friends, part of the family and so on...He always said "the big Mussolini's mistake was to join Hitler, Mussolini was a great leader and Italy lived a great economic boom and welfare under his governement". My grandfather was a great worker, honest and loyal to duty...This always sounded strange to me, but then I noticed also the vaste majority of my friends' grandfathers were of the same opinion. By hearing their stories I wouldn't say it was only propaganda, I believe they were happy and for the first time after the unification of the country (1861) people felt Italy united and strong, they had nice jobs and purchasing power. It is no coincidence that this political model (fascism) was widely emulated in Europe...It probably worked well at the time.
Your grandfather was correct, Mussolini's mistake was to ally with the Germans and enter the war, the Italian army was not prepared, just the navy and it was still destroyed. Italian unification only happened on paper in 1861, the union was only of borders, the nobles still had command of their regions and spent a lot buying supplies from outside, since Italy had not been self-sufficient until then. The people were not very united, they spoke the same language with different accents but there was no feeling of belonging. After Mussolini gained power in 1922 this changed, an increase in industry, more agricultural land and the feeling of belonging to Italy. Fascism has positive sides and can be "molded" for different regions, it can be very easy to deal with, unlike for example, the much acclaimed communism, where it is not possible to avoid a potential slaughter due to class struggle.
Similarly to German unification Italian unification was in 1871, although before that it was well underway. Yes the formation of the modern Italian state began in 1861 with the unification of most of the peninsula under the House of Savoy (Piedmont-Sardinia) into the Kingdom of Italy but it was still pretty far from complete then. Italy incorporated Venetia and the former Papal States (including Rome) by 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).
Many of my neighbours were deported, beaten, assaulted. Some of them were never found. I managed to hear some of the stories sometimes - told by those who made it - which made me truly appreciate the freedom we have today.
Why? Coz a country run by fascists makes all inhabitants evil cretins ? They were human, living in their time. I expect that and more from some of those in even the worst conditions.
To be honest this video is full of details that, as an Italian, I don't see that often on videos about Italy during WW2. People tend to forget what kind of dictator Mussolini was also because he was overshadowed by Hitler. Also, kudos for your italian pronunciation!
@@matteobelletti8929 mah, vedendo altri video storici in inglese solitamente tendono a brutalizzare molto di più la pronuncia. Sinceramente non mi sembrava così male, chiaro non è lontanamente vicino a un madre lingua ma è comprensibile.
@@federicobosa5694 Si, bravo Federico, hai ragione. Vorrei sentire quei che criticano la pronuncia dell' italiano come loro si arrangiano con l'lnglese...
I'd like to hear more about life in other European countries leading up to WW2. The build up to the war is often times over shadowed by the events of the war
Watch the dramatic series "The Winds of War" (1983) Well-crafted, poignant, very engaging mini-series (6 episodes) set on the eve of WW II, spanning 1936-1941. The two main protagonists are the family of a US navy officer, and the family of a Jewish scholar living in Rome. Their personal dramas are interwoven with historic events and supported by documentary segments. This is a Prequel to the epic series "War and Remembrance", which picks up where this leaves off. Many of the actors remain the same across the two series.
The first movie my family rented from Netflix was Felini's Amarcord. It's about Felini's life growing up in Fascist Italy and really illustrates how most people where just trying to get by.
@@jakemocci3953 His are just common fascist positions. Neo fascists in Italy usually repeat like parrots that Mussolini was bad but also not so bad. It is just a way of downplaying the violence committed by fascist, like the planned genocides, like the one they tried to do in Slovenia, the time when they bombed civilian when they were escaping, the time when they killed an entire monastery of Christians in Africa, the mass deportations in Libya. If you are interested in the crime that fascist and Italians in general committed and you can read Italian there is a book called "Italiani brava gente ?".
@@matteosassaro2487 I’m reading “Always with Honor” right now about the crimes the Bolsheviks committed against the White Russians. Makes me think the fascists were the good guys.
My grandfather served with the 598th Field Artillery Regiment 92nd Infantry Division the Buffaloes.During WW2. And he told me about how many of the Italians hated Mussolini. Especially the partisans.
@@diegotr1903 Nah, if we actually were, you wouldn't be able to comment about your government's screwups and would be executed for talking smack about them. That, and nobody worships Biden, none of us are happy with him, but he has to clean up the mess.
My grandfather used to tell me about how everything was rationed right before the war. He was allowed 100 grams of bread per day (less than a quarter pound). When he was called for his medicals before being drafted he weighed about 50kg (~105lbs). He was deemed unfit for purpose.
@@domdabomb2033 of course, northern Italy were very slowly transitioning to its industrial era while the south was 100% still depending on agriculture and farming. Add to that the loss of more than a million young males from the first world war.
My grandfather was born in Italy in 1939. He remembers the American invasion and the bombing runs that took place over southern Italy. He moved to Long Island in 1961, like many other Italians before him
Antonio Gramsci once wrote: "It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations, it is in the interest of each one of them that the other should be weakened by internal struggle. Hence it is always possible to pose the question of whether the parties exist by virtue of their own strength, as their own necessity, or whether rather they only exist to serve the interests of others"
@@NoName-hg6cc Should be clear to anyone that it degenerated into an instrument of Soviet foreign policy. This was the position of the communist left which split from the party also.
My grand parents lost everything because they were not Facists. They lost they house, business and my grandfather ability to be a engineer officer as a merchant marine.
I can remommend ruclips.net/video/_asCPHgNKd8/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/7BsgACPTOYE/видео.html (I believe it's part of a mini-series, the other episodes might also be on youtube if you look around)
Fascist Italy executed (officially) many fewer people than did the USA during the same period. No mass graves have been found in the 80 years since the war ended (except those of massacres caused by the Germans). Mussolini preferred to blackmail his enemies, and house arrest or exile was preferred to harsher methods. Mussolini was horrible to Africans, but to Italians he was better than some other heads of state were. And as a side note, he was an environmentalist who saw the need to plant new forests.
Oh cool, as long as he was nice to Italians, loved trees, pets & babies that's all that matters, & who cares about africans eh? ..Of course the was the small matter of bombing civilians during the Spanish civil war & the Balkans during WW2...You fascist apologists are sick.
He didn't need to. In the end Hitlers soldiers were holding down Mussolinis "country". Most of Italy was already freed by allied forces but Mussolini still held a part of the North and ruled it as a republic. He was there only by Hitler's grace and basically his puppet.
@@Nocturne33 according to his race theory the majority of people in a lot of the invaded countries (all countries in Africa, Greece, Poland, Romania...) were of the "wrong race". That didn't stop Hitler as they still gave him resources and strategic advantages as well as power.
The Italian Social Republic was purely a German puppet state. The Kingdom of Italy (when it was dominated by the National Fascist Party) was not a German puppet state but was doomed to become an economic puppet state of Germany, just like Hungary and Romania.
you've got that feeling because you fell for online memes about le evil mustache, he probably didn't even care about france, his aims were against poland and russia, he had to invade france because they would obviously have intervened against him.
Weird History, I want to thank you for these videos. Honest to god, if schools used videos like yours to teach and talk about history, it would have been so much more interesting and enjoyable.
This whole "trains running on time" business reminds me of what Stalin's fans are preaching in Russia these days. "There was law and order, young people behaved, and there were no drunks in the streets. And the ice cream tasted great, too. Ahh, the good old days!"
Same with the far right saying the military dictatorship was actually good here in Brazil. "There was less violence, you could go out without fearing for your life, the economy was booming and only criminals and comunists were tortured, honest people had a good time." Of course they ignore all the children the military tortured and killed for example, all the censorship, all the people who were "suicided" (yea, they'd kill political dissidents and say they commited suicide) and so on.
I'm sure the thousands of people who starved really appreciated the ice cream... People always tend to glorify the "good old times" that's normal but really disturbing when they refer to times of dictatorship, fear and/or cruelty. It's thankfully rare in public where I live but that's because quite a lot of things refering to our last dictatorship are forbidden by law. Things like denying the Holocaust, swastikas, the "Heil Hitler" with a risen arm...
There's this vlogger called Bald and Bankrupt who travels around Russia speaking to locals, often asking older folk who lived under Soviet rule what life was like, and most tell him that life was better then. I'm not sure how much the brainwashing of the time plays into that though
@@brolim. really? Fascism is when people riot due to centuries of oppression? Not, I don't know, the white chauvinism that has always existed in the US? Your country is literally built on imperialism and genocide yet the pushback of the people you couldn't kill off is fascism to you? Holy mother of white fragility dude
@@lucasartore161a name a place that is not built on that dude you are a hypocrite who is anti america. The black race is coddeled in america now this is not the jim crow and previous eras they have equal rights
I love how after deporting those gay men, they just stuck them on an island together in the Mediterranean. Like, it's hilarious to think that sending these gay guys on a small island 'vacation' together was some sort of punishment. Can only imagine what it was like there for that period of time.
@@mahfoudseraf5995 well, now it's a pleasant island to visit, I'd totally reccomend it! But of course being a prisoner is another story, they weren't in vacation
my best friend said that during WWII her grandfather (as a child) had to go through minefields first and that they often picked stuff off corpses just to survive. her dad's side of the family is italian
Could you make a video about Leopold II's brutal murder of 10 million people in the Congo? I recently learned about this and it broke my heart. There's a famous photo of a father looking at his murdered toddler's hacked off hand and foot that really shocked and angered me.
I dont get how when a genocide occurs by other nations the nations are at fault, but with the congo genocide its always leopold. I mean, yeah, it was his property, but so was germany to hitler and the USSR to lenin and stalin.
I'm italian so I've always knew these things but it is interesting reading the comments from people around the world. I've also read my grandma's schoolbooks from that era and they are weird
@@mich722 there is a chapter about human races, and math exercises are about the war, like calculate how many soldiers died, and literature was about how great Italy was, and there was almost an obsession about being healthy and clean
@@gaia7240 nel mentre negli usa vigeva l'apartheid e spesso bruciavano un colorato, non si può leggere il passato con gli occhiali del presente perchè una volta era tutto diverso, le cose vanno viste nel quadro generale della politica e delle convinzioni morali di allora! Lo sai che io sono andato a scuola negli anni 80 e sul sussidiario delle medie c'era la divisione in razze tra europoidi,negroidi, asiatici e australoidi.?
What we don't hear often on TV or YT are tales from people that actually lived under fascism. My grandmother lived during that time, she told us that life was pretty normal and that the fascists even gave poor people free land for them to farm. Her and my grandfather were communists and never got in trouble for it, despite that "fascists were everywhere" like she told me. As for political repression, a thing you forgot to mention is how Mussolini was part of the Italian Socialist Party, but was kicked out as he was supporting Italy participation in WW1. He then fought against basically all of the left as they were pushing for a proletarian revolution, when Mussolini was advocating for workers and land/factories owners to work together and have balanced rights (the fascists were the ones to introduce the 40 hours work week and minimal wage as well, before that there was no limit on how long you could work and how low you could have been paid) Another thing is about racism/antisemitism. Mussolini publicly blamed Hitler's racist policies in one of his speech in 1938 in the city of Bari. The following discriminatory policies that were then put in place in Italy were just there for Hitler to "like" Italy, as the Stesa Front (an alliance between Italy, France, and the UK against Germany) was cut short because of the Second Ethiopian War. The only repression against jews were made under the Italian Social Republic, basically a puppet of Germany after the allies invaded Italy in 1943. A few years before, Mussolini even advocated for the creation of a "jewish state" in Palestine and also advocated for Christian and Jewish soldiers to work together despite religious differences during WW1
bravo diglielo a tutti quegli italiani che si abbeverano a questi video di propaganda, bisogna sentire le persone che ci vivevano allora e diciamo che fino 1938 la vita era normale tranne che per qualche bolscevico che voleva far diventare l'Italia come la Russia!
Domestically the Italian Fascists weren't that extreme compared to other authoritarian dictatorships, and like all controversial things it's hard to be objective and people flip out even if you say something positive about Italian Fascism even if it is factually historically correct. The bottom line though is anything positive the Fascists did was outweighed by Mussolini's decisions in the late 30's. His foreign policy in general was abysmal, and even other Fascists turned on him eventually for allying with Hitler. He ran any potential the Fascist movement had into the ground with his egotism.
@@sottoilsuoocchio1514 Since 1927, the Soviet Union has been experiencing a shortage of personnel in the amount of 12 million people, and this is against the background of the demographic explosion in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. unemployment in Europe at this time is monstrous. the end of the First Five-Year Plan (1927-1932) doubles the shortage of personnel, and Stalin publishes a plan for the Second Five-Year Plan, which implies the creation of even more jobs. and in Germany in 1933 Hitler came to power against the background of the suppression of the socialist revolution . the Russians have figured out how to create millions of jobs in 5 years. Hitler and Mussolini figure out how to turn all the unemployed into fertilizers for Russian fields in 4 years. for more laughter, look for photos of Italian captured soldiers. a Russian escort in a sheepskin coat, felt boots and a fur hat and Italian captured soldiers in equipment suitable only for September. Mussolini didn't even have money for sheepskin coats for his soldiers! 🤣
@@Utsubuyup, Italo Balbo would have been a more ideal fascist leader for Italy. He was fair and very popular with people under his rule like in Libya for example. He had great relations with the west.
I had one grandfather partisan and one monarchist. The first one fought against fascism in the civil war (43-45) but at the end of the war saved several fascist lives from wall shooting, because he always said that an Italian can’t kills another Italian. The other grandfather became public prosecutor and then magistrate of Italian republic, and till his death (2021) he always sticked up for the king of Italy and monarchy, he hated the republic and said that the real owner of Italy is the savoia’s family (he wasnt fascist)
@@BrandonRyker I'm sorry, how does the first one suck? he fought against an oppressive regime AND decides not to lower himself to their level of violence and brutality. that's two points in favor, if you ask me.
@@vintheguy repeat it a few more times, but it won't change it from an opinion to a fact. Expanding your argument would however make it possible to convince me.
It’s no so much fascist/nazi/communist that’s bad as it is a government that punishes people for disagreeing with the party line. That can happen in a democracy as well
Well said, authoritianism in general is always bad. And yes, 9/10 modern authoritarian states are completely democratic. This is actually one of the reasons our founders in the USA disliked democracy, because if everything is controlled by a vote, then all you have to do is control the vote and one party can rule forever. And people can absolutely be tricked and coerced into voting against their own self benefit. Communism/socialism/fascism were just ploys and false promises that were used to achieve authoritarianism.
No, fascism is inherently bad. There's literally no way to have an acceptable fascist government. They are authoritarian by nature. Fascism is ultra-nationalism, dictorial power, and oppression of opponents, all by design. There is literally no way to have this in a way that is humane or fair. Communism without authoritarians maybe.
You know… it’s weird to think that Mussolini was one of the more “gentle” authoritarian(?) leaders of modern history. Like.. the fact that we have worse examples than him today, excluding the obvious Kim Jong-un, is quite interesting.
Formally he was still a prime minister appointed by the king, and he didn't need to be that harsh, because, for the first 10-15 years of regime, it had been quite popular. In particular the years 1929-1936 are known as "gli anni del consenso" (the years of consent) where the regime managed to keep the country out of the great depression, and introduced several welfare measures. The opposition was more a curiosity, almost a sign of snobism, than a real threat.
@@DeadlyAlienInvader Could be, most of what he cites are secondary sources, aka not hard evidence and are a mock to truth and history. As far as I know, many allied politicians like FDR and Churchill were fans of Mussolini's politics, especially during the Great Depression, since Mussolini's economy was free from the global banking cartel it was immune from the hyperinflation the other nations suffered. A large reason for destroying Italy was for that.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k oh well, everybody has a brightside! And if that prevents anybody from being called a bad person, then everybody that existed are “good” people then, 🤣.
Both of my paternal grandparents were born in fascist Italy, and it’s weird for them to think about Mussolini after living in America for so long. My grandmother thinks of it as you never think of yourself as the bad guy in the moment
Hey Weird History Channel. Could you do a video on "What Life Was Like on a New England Whaling Ship"? It was a fascinating, gruesome, and often misunderstood occupation that I think you guys would do a great job of showing.The Nantucket whaling museum and the Mystic Seaport are great tourist attractions today that hold a lot of artifacts and documentation from that period of history, as well as the Ron Howard film "In the Heart of the Sea"- the true story about the sperm whale attack on the whaling ship 'Essex' that inspired the story of Moby Dick. Happy holidays!
Sometimes people would fall inside the whale during the butchery process, unknown to their fellow workers, and have to eat their way through walls of blubber to escape.
I live near the Tremiti islands, I can confirm. Also, the surprise detention happened frequently here, they usually imprisoned the artists and people of culture.
There is only 1 thing positive in that 20 years, the fact that someone inside thegovernment understood the greatness of Fermi Majorana and Co. And put a lot of money in the research field. Building advanced centre of research in phisics that bruoght several nobel prizes over the decades.INFN in Frascati is amazing place to visit, I hope next spring will be possible to visit again after the covid captivity
Okay, a mix of interesting eclectic facts and great exaggeration. According to the Wiki article on Capital punishment in Fascist Italy - from 1926 when capital punishment was reintroduced, to the start of the war in 1940 a total of.......9....people were executed by fascist Italy - mostly for attempts on Mussolini's life I believe. I wonder how many people received the death penalty in the USA, UK and France in the same 14 year period? The thuggery of fascist blackshirts mirrored the thuggery of their communist and socialist rivals. Homosexual acts in the UK were punishable with up to life imprisonment in the UK as late as 1967 - in fact in 1953 there were over a thousand gay men in prison in UK for gay acts, not 45 men exiled to an island, and women did not receive the vote in France until 1945. Gosh, some context completely changes the image you are presenting of fascist Italy compared to what life was like in the rest of the western world. Mussolini was a warmongerer, that was his worst crime. People died in wars he started. He was a very bad man, but so were many world leaders at the time. As regards propaganda for kids and censorship of the press, that sounds like today in the west, where the leftist elite control these things and spouted lies like Russia Gate for 4 years, censored any mention COVID may have come from a Lab and abuse Canadian truckers and others in the name of their politician friends...
I mean at least these days gay people dont get exiled to an island, we have modern medicine to deal with pandemics, the 'leftist elite' dont shove everyone they disagree with in prison and we dont send women who dont want to fuck a dude into an asylum. Get vaccinated sweetcheeks, the world is still pretty right wing.
Belfast is in Ireland, part of Englands very first colony, and is still an English Colony. A Fraction of the Island of Ireland, the 6-Notrth-East Counties are Un-free.
@@johndoe-ss9bz I want to learn what lead up to this, and the fights between east and west Belfast, the Protestant and Catholic fighting and the why of it all
@@SoCalRegisteredNurse Britain colonised Ireland, the colonists want to remain part of the UK and the native Irish want to be part of their own nation, it's not so much about religion, it's more about race.
@@adammacgreagoir4924 Race? Do you mean culture? My husband is a McNamara And when I was little I would see the fighting in the streets on the news and from what I remember there was East Belfast, the protestant side, and west Belfast, the Catholic side. The BRITs have a liking to colonize
this video doesn't highlight the reason why fascist came to power, after 2 years of violence from socialist factions, in Italy a red revolution was about to take place. This credit should be concede to fascists.
By making an alliance with Nazi Germany and helping to plunge the world into a World War, in which Germany attacked Russia and killed millions of its inhabitants, *which was the reason why* the Soviets successfully counterattacked and (of course) imposed Bolshevik atheism and murder in East Europe - including East Germany? Chronological order of events, anyone? And, of course, you forget the fate of Italian Jews. Do old Italians also love Mussolini for what happened to over 7500 of them? Or do they think that's a negligible amount of innocent people murdered for the sake of keeping their way of life? For which they should rather thank the British and Americans who liberated them before the Russians arrived? Why is it that the word fascism acquired its meaning? Chilean here. I know how it is to live in a real-life fascist dictatorship. Don't believe what your old Italians say. Reality ain't pretty.
Portugal had an interesting history in world war 2 that virtually no one knows about, but Lisbon was a hotspot for government officials and spies 😊 Ian Fleming, the author that created James Bond, served in Lisbon and apparently created the character based on a Serbian double (triple?) agent. Also, Salazar allowed the uk (who convinced them to let us, the Americans) to use the Azores as an air base. But they were also afraid of Hitler’s wrath, so they also hid nazi gold and sold tungsten to create weapons for both sides, though the Brits were allowed to run up a hefty tab, whereas the nazis had to pay up front. Salazar might have been ‘relatively’ harmless, but he made his own people suffer and go hungry in order to continue catering to both sides Source: I once wrote a paper talking about Portugal’s role in WWII a few years ago
One of the most bizarre things about Fascist Italy were the internment camps that just left people alone. They rounded up gays, and then just let them be gay without any additional punishment. Even Jews during the war were rounded up and then sent to furnished housing inside camps where they could live quietly. When the Nazis tried to exterminate these Jews, the Fascists simply moved them to another camp where they wouldn't be found.
Yep, 422nd, even when the Japanese fight for the wrong side they still outperform their American counterparts in their own Army. This is probably why the greatest US military defeats, Fall of Philippines, where 100,000 americans surrendered & 45,000 died/wounded to the outnumbered Japanese forces. Battle of salvo island was the worst US naval defeat in history too. Mikawa Gunichi was a highly competent admiral. Even in Iwo Jima, when the Japanese empire about collapsed, they still fought to the very end and it took 110,000 Americans+ many ships and planes to kill 20,000 nearly a whole month when with any other force that would have taken days. The American military has never lost so many as much as to the Japanese once. Germany a close second.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k While I'm greatful for the Japanese Americans that fought against tyranny and won...the US beat Japan. Despite the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, the naval battles Japan won, Battle of Wake Island...none of it mattered. In the end the Japanese lost. In the Pacific Theater American forces took down one Japanese Island after another. After obliterating their troops in Iwo Jima, Okinawa was the next stop. Not even their surprise attack nor Battleship Yamato could save the Japanese. The US troops drove the Japanese to the Southern coast of Okinawa for a last stand for they knew if the Americans took Okinawa defeat was all but inevitable. On May 6, 1945 Hacksaw Ridge was taken and with it the Japanese chances of ever winning a war. The Americans took 49,000 casualties The Japanese 110,000 casualties Those numbers are quite decisive and the atomic bombs followed ending the Pacific Theater once and for all.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k What?! No, the Axis Powers deserved exactly what they got. As did the Soviet Union when it collapsed. All extremism needs to go...all of it. Fascism, Communism, nope.
My grandpa was in the Italian resistance then him and his wife moved to NYC a bit after the war ended. They left their families behind and never visited them again. I’m not sure why but shoot, could be many reasons.
Funny! My grandpa was a Jewish doctor who in 1943, after the Germans took over Northern Italy, had finally to flee for Swiss. They placed him in a refugee camp near Basel, where he healed a seuriosly ill US Army Major's wife. The Major then offered him a chief position in some clinic in USA, but Grandpa refused. As soon as he could (summer 1946) he got back to his beloved city in Northern Italy, where he peacefully died in 1991 aged 84.
I am Italian, my grandfathers lived through that time, and this video contains so much opinion based information it's incredible how many lies you can spread today without consequences (speaking of PROPAGANDA am right?)... I am no fascist and I don't like Mussolini, however, generally speaking life in Italy became better after Mussolini came to power (although be it in a totalitarian fascion), the economy grew significantly, the food supply increased, the people were happier generally speaking as the Mafia was demolished by the state and the nation was more united than ever. In fact, most great additions to the Italian consitution were made under the ruling of Mussolini (which seems a bit counter intuitive at first, but isn't when you get to understand that he really wanted Italy to prosper). Mussolini is a controversial character, because all these things could be achieved under a democracy too (although in a much slower pace), and not to speak of the wars he brought to other coutries during his ruling.... You shouldn't antagonize someone you don't know anything about at all. You don't know what he did for Italy nor the Italian people. He did some horrible things like war, but you have no idea how much good he did (and also isn't the U.S. beringing war literally everywhere nowadays? Don't see you complaining about them huh).. Please inform yourself before making a video about something you know anything about.
My dad was in primary school (1933-2019) and the boys had little uniforms with an M on it like little fascist Scouts😕 It wasn't exactly what you could choose to join, you were in! You really had to watch what you said in those times. My mum's still alive and it's crazy to think she actually lived through this alien world! (Yes, I started my comment early and I finally got a look at that ridiculous uniform!)
my grandparents always said that the best govern and quality of life style they ever had was during fascism. Things like retirment funds were not in place in italy before fascism. To be honst it is fairly hard in Italy to find old people that talk negatively of fascism.
Folks in this thread are correct-fascist groups almost always rely on a single authoritarian figurehead; once that person is dead/imprisoned/discredited/otherwise out of the picture, the fascist regime falls apart. Usually, the longer a fascist regime is in power, the more upset the people living under the regime become, because fascist regimes have to continually add more and more repressive, violent, and subjugative policies that ruin the lives of the people just to stay in power.
The picture @ 7:07 is actually one from my grandparents hometown in Italy! The place is called Letino / Gallo Matesse and those are the traditional costumes they wear during festival times in August/September. Even in Canada we have a small festival durring the September long weekend and people here dress up in the same costumes and do the traditional dance. I've even got dressed up and danced a few times!
~10:47 For some reason they call it the "Italian Socialist Republic" here, but for most of Mussolini's reign Italy was officially called the Kingdom of Italy (including during the time all of the policies he mentions were passed). During a brief period toward the end of WWII, after the Allies occupied Southern Italy and Germany occupied the North, Italy was renamed as a Republic, but it was called the Italian *Social* Republic, not Socialist.
Good video. One detail: the emblem of the Socialist Party displayed at min. 03:35 was introduced in 1978; the emblem in the 20s of last century was totally different and based on hammer and sickle (the reference to red carnation only appeared in late 70s)
My grandparents were part of the first wave of colonists sent to the pontine marshes south of Rome in the late 1920s/early 1930s, and helped drain, built, and settle the swamps where the planned city of Sabaudia would be built. They escaped after the allied and German bombings of the civilian quarters (mistaken for rail depots), and would, much to their future chagrin, move to Venezuela, where they would have to flee another despotic venture in 1999 after Chavez began expropriation of property and assets of the wealthy “others” (white European descendants, professors, cultural figures, lawyers, etc). I think it’s safe to say that I kind of have a genetic predisposition now to be skeptical of any government or governmental figure that wishes to curtail individual freedoms for a diaphanous “greater good”.
My grandfather was born in 1930 in Italy. He told us that children of illegitimate birth had their last names changed under facsist rule. He and his siblings were thus renamed to a name starting with U. Does anyone know more about that rule? I couldn't really find anything on the internet about the treatment of illegitimate children and their mothers in Italy at the time.
@@Delightfully_Bitchy yeah it's a 'fun' little anecdote. Apparently of Mussolini had won I would now be named Uletti. Which I'm not. Not even close. Sadly I can't find anything to support it. But then most sources would be in Italian which I don't speak. At least not more than a visit to a restaurant would require.
I don't really think that this is a real or legit story. There isn't even a word in Italian that is similar to illegitimate child and starts with an U. I don't even know, why they should do that in the first place. There was, as far as I know, even laws that supported single mothers or illegitimate children. So I'm a bit confused myself.
Don't know about that, but friends of mine in Trieste (where many has slavic origins) said that their grandparents had their surnames changed to sound more "italian"
Credo di sapere la risposta. Mussolini non c'entra . Era una regola dei befotrofi . Si davano dei cognomi inventati e ogni tanto si cambiavano le lettere dell'alfabeto come iniziali. Ciò facilitava l'individuazione della data di nascita.
It's about time that this piece of History is being shown and taught. Especially now when we see it being repeated right here in the United States. Younger Generations don't realize what's happening because they don't have the history taught to them properly. This is not an accident. They've been raised to be politically ignorant of what happened in the early 20th century.
Yeah and a lot of older generations too, Trump used a lot of the same tactics as 20th century Fascists to get elected in the first place. Also could you explain further on how people aren’t having history taught properly?
@@fishsteakyelk341 The school system for a long time now has not been teaching history. All you have to do is ask anybody who attended School in the last 20 years how much knowledge they have of 20th century political history. Many schools don't teach history at all anymore they discontinued it a couple decades ago. They also discontinued the teaching of geography which is important if you want to understand what happened in the past and how it affects the present and the future. My guess is that you could not find any younger person, or for that matter older person who has any idea how Hitler and Mussolini and the other Fascists of the time came to power.
@@geraldtrudeau3223 Is it dependent on the area? American schools get most of their funding from property taxes right? I’ve heard of a lot of schools in lower income areas that can’t afford certain courses.
It was heaven compared to what Italians have now. No mafia, people working together and decent territorial defense force. Why did he go with the Germans.
Please do a video (or brief series) to explain the differences between fascism, communism, nationalism, and capitalism. Too many people think they know the meaning after hearing it from biased cable news sources or from politicians (even worse). Thank you for the great work!
@Jo Jo the government here in the US is closer to authoritarian Marxist, screaming fascist at everyone who disagrees with them. I'm talking about the far left socialists and so called "progressives"
Bullshit. It is a democratic party voted in a democratic way. I was not among their electors, but this cheap way of thinking is disrespectful towards people. Even a Jewish-Italian leftist such Moni Ovadia said that calling Meloni a fascist is worng.
My great-grandparents were members of the Fascist Party and one of them even participated at the March on Rome. Later on, on of my great-grandfathers participated at the pacification of Libya and the Abyssian campaign. Even the brother of my great-grandfather was part of the Black Brigades. They all kinda loved the new fascist order - but no one had a Problem with "lesser freedom", since they had jobs, something to eat etc.
@@sandran17 I mean, that's a thing every government does. If you ensure good material conditions, then no one will try to throw you out of your power position.
Thanks very much for the video, which made me realize how creepy fascism was. I am italian and unfortunately a large proportion of the population doesn’t know the truth about fascism, or they just hide it to their minds and call themselves “fascist” because of the deep hate they bring inside; the hate against immigrants, against how the country has been ruled in the last three decades at least, the level of inefficiency in the bureaucracy and corruption in politics. Anyway fascism was a horrible period and we should keep that in mind. I would like to add, regarding the family policy during fascism, that the State incentivized family having boys (who could then join the army because of the military conscription). People used to say “Auguri e figli maschi” which means “Best wishes and have male children” to new married couples for this reason.
"Italian fascism... creepy. Anyway, I just had my 11 year old transition genders and my husband is holding a polyamorous orgy tomorrow, exciting times!" - This is the sentiment and spirit of what the left is about. If you want to talk about creepy, it's this. Fascism is much more in line with nature, it's anti-egalitarian.
@@AlexAlex-jz1kq you know, germans don’t think the way you do. So if our country cannot find a different idea of itself I would rather move abroad (and that’s what I did).
i miei bisnonni erano italiani, ho la cittadinanza da quando sono nato e stavo pensando di vivere in italia l'anno prossimo, con l'attuale governo non so se sarà possibile, è triste
@@EduardoBelle1 sono scappato anch'io. Ti assicuro che il paese e' triste gia' daun po. Ultimamente e' peggiorato di brutto, grazie al lassimo e al perbenismo di una classe politica corrotta ed incapace (tutta). Le bande di stranieri impeversano in ogni dove ormai. Organizzati ed impuniti. Stai pure ovunque ti trovi. L'Italia non c'e' piu'
They can't, let me explain it a little better, it is a corporatist economy, and ultrnationalist and ultramilitarist foreign policy, and heavily traditionalist on social issues like abortion, gay marriage, and others.
It would've been like a more theatrical version of Nazi Germany. Hitler more or less modelled the Third Reich structure on Mussolini's rule..but with the rigidity of a German instead of the bluster and hot bloodedness of an Italian.
Hitler loved Mussolini but the italian didn't like the german, this is what Mussolini wrote in his diary about his first encounter with Hitler "The touch of his shy and wet hand, cold and almost stiff, his flawless of berliner mannequin, his glass eyes, his rigid mouth closed by two thin and yellow lips, with a tremor in my back reminded me of the wax masks of the great men I saw many years ago in the London museum"
Fascism cannot exist without socialism because fascism requires a large and powerful central government. Fascism simply occurs when a large socialist government turns sour.
@@HeWoNe don't know about fascist Croatia during ww2, but Italians under Mussolini didn't kill any of my grandmother's family. Not trying to defend fascism here and my story is anecdotal at best, but yeah
My grandma ( born in 1921) used to tell me things about those days. She complained about having to wear uniforms and perform marches during the "fascist saturdays" Public rallies. During the war she was one of the only two women attending the math faculty. She also survived the infamous fosse ardeatine event since she was walking nearby via Rasella that day. She also claimed her family helped some Jews although she was pretty unclear on that point. When the war was getting worse the duce asked for the Italians marriage rings and she donated a fake one made up for the occasion.In 1946 she voted in the first ballot open to women, voting for monarchy in the referendum. She later regretted that choice saying she that she would have voted republic.
"His passing in 1945." That's an awfully nice way to say it.
Gotta keep those public execution family friendly
He tripped over while trying to walk the rope across a train station and fell upside down, which strangled/killed him.
@@tsumugikotobuki0131 I’ll buy that 💁🏽♀️
I HOLLERED
My grandfather was one of the lucky people who got the chance to spit on him during that night and he used to say that after all the pain and loss that he and his family endured for years, it was his greatest achievement. I pass near piazzale loreto, the plaza where it happened, almost every day because of work and it feels incredible thinking that the mfs were hanged there
My grandma mantained till her death 5 years ago that Mussolini was the Best leader italy ever had, my dad was a communist supporter so fights at home were wild 😂
OOO! Mamma mia.. che guerra a casa tuo.. buon anno
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Yeah because all theh heard was fascist propaganda, then Italians dropped dead like flies thanks to his awful leadership and food ran out and people learned the truth the hard way.
@@olwla8966 I'm assuming your grandfather survived, so it must have been a war situation, also partisans are illegal and have no rights.
@@francisdrake7060 show evidence of Italian resistance? The only example I can think of was some strikes which only lasted a couple days in 1943
@The Phantom of George Wallace Yeah it was decent up untill the war don't get me wrong but the propaganda was strong in that period, I mean people still say "when he ruled things were better" here in Italy to this day, when under every metric possible Italy is doing better now.
It's basically become a meme nowadays because of how many times you hear delusional boomers say it.
My grandfather was born in NYC, but moved to Italy when he was a little boy. The Italian government tried to force him into the army but due to my grandfather being an American citizen, he was able to flee the country and return to the United States leaving behind his family.
He ended up being drafted into the US army for the Italian front just a few years later and at first worked with pigeons before being made an interrogation officer when they realized he was educated and spoke three languages fluently. Funnily enough, he ended up having to have to question his old school principal who used to beat the hell out him and lock him in closets. He didn't kill him, but made his stay hell.
Bahahaha
Good story man
feels like Karma haha XD
So you’re saying he committed war crimes by torturing prisoners? Because that’s what the last sentence implies
@@joshmcdonald7472
Yep, he trained the pigeons to eat the guy's wee wee off.
Revenge is a dish best served cold ! My Dad was in the invasion of Sicily as Tank commander.
Life in imperial Japan could be cool to cover. So many great films have portrayed it well, but there’s always more to the story IMO
Seconded. Weird history this is the one^
Yes I agree
YAS!
Life in Imperial Japan is the nowadays life...... Japan is still an Empire!!!!
@@mikatu There were laws made to make sure sure they never get to be an empire again. Japan can’t even have an actual military anymore, and that’s pretty crucial for an empire. With the presence of American bases and culture since the 50’s, it’s arguably kind of a US territory. Japan ceased to be an empire when they surrendered in 1945
My father was in the Italian navy during Mussolinis reign and he loved him because my grandmother didn’t have to pay the mafia anymore for so called “protection” for running a food business. Mussolini ran the mafia out of the country during his reign and my dad hated the mafia but then when Mussolini lost power and was killed the mob resurfaced and my dad was forced to come to this country.
Thanks for sharing this! Bless ur family
Yeah that was one good thing about Mussolini’s regime
@@Jackholiday1025great 👍
In fact there were various connections between the Allies (notably the US) and the mafia before the landing in Sicily. Which would also explain the complete lack of reaction (combined with war fatigue and a pervasive dissatisfaction with the regime)
My Grandfather said something similar. He liked Mussolini because he suppressed the Mafia. He was born in Calabria.
Dad was born in 1933 and he loved him. Said he was tough on the Mafia thugs
Good, atleast he had the nuts to get something done unlike modern politicians
Your Father sounds like a good man
He certainly knew that the only way to deal with thugs is by thuggery.
@@RadTradX thank he sure was
@@freeman8128 %100 correct
My ex's grandfather, who was a staunch anti-fascist, escaped the secret police and jumped on the first boat leaving Italy when he was only 17 years old. He arrived in Argentina with just the clothes on his back. He later married the daughter of Italian immigrants and had a family. I got to meet him shortly before his death in 2009. He had never gone back to Italy, and never saw his family again.
awesome lineage.
Asi esta el pais
Ordinary people do extrodernary things, you deserve to be proud
Wow~that’s so admirable and heartbreaking.
Believe me, he wasn't missed in Italy. Comunist!
it is very great to see people start taking about this part of italys history
Talking? Not taking.
Start?
@@okay9574 It's sometimes overlooked by countries like the USSR and Nazi Germany. Similar thing with Imperial Japan (even more interesting is Japan before the militarists took over, because it was already a very authoritarian country under the Meiji Constitution).
The only time when italy didnt suffer under the mafia
This history is fake though
I have never understood why my grandfather, until is death (4 years ago) has always defended Mussolini, even though he soffered war, starvation, he lost some of his friends, part of the family and so on...He always said "the big Mussolini's mistake was to join Hitler, Mussolini was a great leader and Italy lived a great economic boom and welfare under his governement". My grandfather was a great worker, honest and loyal to duty...This always sounded strange to me, but then I noticed also the vaste majority of my friends' grandfathers were of the same opinion. By hearing their stories I wouldn't say it was only propaganda, I believe they were happy and for the first time after the unification of the country (1861) people felt Italy united and strong, they had nice jobs and purchasing power. It is no coincidence that this political model (fascism) was widely emulated in Europe...It probably worked well at the time.
Your grandfather was correct, Mussolini's mistake was to ally with the Germans and enter the war, the Italian army was not prepared, just the navy and it was still destroyed. Italian unification only happened on paper in 1861, the union was only of borders, the nobles still had command of their regions and spent a lot buying supplies from outside, since Italy had not been self-sufficient until then. The people were not very united, they spoke the same language with different accents but there was no feeling of belonging. After Mussolini gained power in 1922 this changed, an increase in industry, more agricultural land and the feeling of belonging to Italy.
Fascism has positive sides and can be "molded" for different regions, it can be very easy to deal with, unlike for example, the much acclaimed communism, where it is not possible to avoid a potential slaughter due to class struggle.
Similarly to German unification Italian unification was in 1871, although before that it was well underway. Yes the formation of the modern Italian state began in 1861 with the unification of most of the peninsula under the House of Savoy (Piedmont-Sardinia) into the Kingdom of Italy but it was still pretty far from complete then. Italy incorporated Venetia and the former Papal States (including Rome) by 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).
Viva il Duce!
Well said, I agree with your grandfather
Had a friend years ago his father said the same thing.
Many of my neighbours were deported, beaten, assaulted. Some of them were never found. I managed to hear some of the stories sometimes - told by those who made it - which made me truly appreciate the freedom we have today.
Ah yes, the freedom of having your phone tapped, every single google search you make monitored and having children's propaganda, that freedom, right.
@@makutas-v261 don't you dare putting the two things on the same level.
There’s a huge difference between the constant threat of death and things like Google tracking you.
@@donniecatalano Not on the same level, but what is said is definitely a precursor to worse things.
Nick A. We'll see... I don't have much faith in the future though
Those officers were suprisingly nice. I genuinely didn't expect that.
You take-a away the freedom but-a you never take-a away the pasta e vino that is-a inhuman.
That was very refreshing.
Italian af trust me
Why? Coz a country run by fascists makes all inhabitants evil cretins ? They were human, living in their time. I expect that and more from some of those in even the worst conditions.
Italian Fascism did not really change Italian culture.
To be honest this video is full of details that, as an Italian, I don't see that often on videos about Italy during WW2. People tend to forget what kind of dictator Mussolini was also because he was overshadowed by Hitler. Also, kudos for your italian pronunciation!
Ma cosa kudos che non ha preso una pronuncia ahahaha
Proprio perché bravo merita un po’ di onestà
@@matteobelletti8929 mah, vedendo altri video storici in inglese solitamente tendono a brutalizzare molto di più la pronuncia. Sinceramente non mi sembrava così male, chiaro non è lontanamente vicino a un madre lingua ma è comprensibile.
actually the Italian pronunciation is horrible and just stereitypical. We don't talk like that at all, it seemed more like a mockery tbh
@@federicobosa5694 Si, bravo Federico, hai ragione. Vorrei sentire quei che criticano la pronuncia dell' italiano come loro si arrangiano con l'lnglese...
@@talete7712 Please see what I have written to Federico Bosa, in case you understand Italian...
I'd like to hear more about life in other European countries leading up to WW2. The build up to the war is often times over shadowed by the events of the war
For real sounds like all of Europe was just a fascism and communism
Read about the Weimar Republic ... history is repeating itself.
Watch the dramatic series "The Winds of War" (1983)
Well-crafted, poignant, very engaging mini-series (6 episodes) set on the eve of WW II, spanning 1936-1941. The two main protagonists are the family of a US navy officer, and the family of a Jewish scholar living in Rome. Their personal dramas are interwoven with historic events and supported by documentary segments. This is a Prequel to the epic series "War and Remembrance", which picks up where this leaves off. Many of the actors remain the same across the two series.
If you haven't done it already, do one on Francoist Spain. Perhaps one on Francisco Pizarro, too.
nah
Tito's or Trejo's?
@@michaelmontalvo7441 yuh
Spain under Franco wasn't that bad; economy grew, high employed, industries etc.
Excellent. Also the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. They are still around BTW. My family subscribes to their newsletter.
Amazing job.
Even in Italy there aren’t many teachers that address this topic in the accurate and way you did
The first movie my family rented from Netflix was Felini's Amarcord. It's about Felini's life growing up in Fascist Italy and really illustrates how most people where just trying to get by.
I’d rather live under a fascist than a communist any day of the week.
@@jakemocci3953 he may been a dictator but even mussolini was horrified by the holocaust.
@@willhuey4462 Do you have a source on that? No one mentioned the holocaust during the war, even amongst German high command.
@@jakemocci3953 His are just common fascist positions. Neo fascists in Italy usually repeat like parrots that Mussolini was bad but also not so bad.
It is just a way of downplaying the violence committed by fascist, like the planned genocides, like the one they tried to do in Slovenia, the time when they bombed civilian when they were escaping, the time when they killed an entire monastery of Christians in Africa, the mass deportations in Libya.
If you are interested in the crime that fascist and Italians in general committed and you can read Italian there is a book called "Italiani brava gente ?".
@@matteosassaro2487 I’m reading “Always with Honor” right now about the crimes the Bolsheviks committed against the White Russians. Makes me think the fascists were the good guys.
My grandfather served with the 598th Field Artillery Regiment 92nd Infantry Division the Buffaloes.During WW2. And he told me about how many of the Italians hated Mussolini. Especially the partisans.
Bless your grandfather for serving 💪💪💪
Arent we living in fascism age again with these vaccines mandates and vaccination passports?
... especially from the media narratives that dont match the reality and factual science...
@@diegotr1903 Nah, if we actually were, you wouldn't be able to comment about your government's screwups and would be executed for talking smack about them. That, and nobody worships Biden, none of us are happy with him, but he has to clean up the mess.
You Grandfather is a hero. My dad served in WW2 too.
My grandfather used to tell me about how everything was rationed right before the war. He was allowed 100 grams of bread per day (less than a quarter pound). When he was called for his medicals before being drafted he weighed about 50kg (~105lbs). He was deemed unfit for purpose.
Before he took over, from my research, the situation wasn’t much better. People were poor, hyperinflation, no jobs
@@domdabomb2033 of course, northern Italy were very slowly transitioning to its industrial era while the south was 100% still depending on agriculture and farming. Add to that the loss of more than a million young males from the first world war.
My grandfather was born in Italy in 1939. He remembers the American invasion and the bombing runs that took place over southern Italy. He moved to Long Island in 1961, like many other Italians before him
Antonio Gramsci once wrote:
"It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations, it is in the interest of each one of them that the other should be weakened by internal struggle. Hence it is always possible to pose the question of whether the parties exist by virtue of their own strength, as their own necessity, or whether rather they only exist to serve the interests of others"
Funny thing is that could apply the best to his own party, the PCI
@@NoName-hg6cc Ironic indeed
@@NoName-hg6cc Should be clear to anyone that it degenerated into an instrument of Soviet foreign policy. This was the position of the communist left which split from the party also.
The irony being that his party was pretty much in cohoots with the Soviets.
maledeto
**me frantically taking notes on where he went wrong just in case society collapses and i get to be dictator**
My grand parents lost everything because they were not Facists. They lost they house, business and my grandfather ability to be a engineer officer as a merchant marine.
If it hasn't been done, I'd like a video on the _Nazis fascination with the occult._
Good idea. that’s actually a really interesting topic that doesn’t get talked about as much
It's just like Trump followers and Qanon. They're nuts living in fantasy land.
@@gaywizard2000 There are all kinds of crazy people in this world these days..
I can remommend ruclips.net/video/_asCPHgNKd8/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/7BsgACPTOYE/видео.html (I believe it's part of a mini-series, the other episodes might also be on youtube if you look around)
@@wudly9195 I mean, aside from Indiana Jones and just about every first person shooter out there with a Zombies mode
Fascist Italy executed (officially) many fewer people than did the USA during the same period. No mass graves have been found in the 80 years since the war ended (except those of massacres caused by the Germans). Mussolini preferred to blackmail his enemies, and house arrest or exile was preferred to harsher methods. Mussolini was horrible to Africans, but to Italians he was better than some other heads of state were. And as a side note, he was an environmentalist who saw the need to plant new forests.
Oh cool, as long as he was nice to Italians, loved trees, pets & babies that's all that matters, & who cares about africans eh? ..Of course the was the small matter of bombing civilians during the Spanish civil war & the Balkans during WW2...You fascist apologists are sick.
horrible? Eritreans still love him.
Musso was not as horrible to Africans as were some other colonial powers. Indeed, his propaganda was to welcome them into Italian protection.
I've got a feeling Hitler would've run over Italy too after he conquered everything else.
He didn't need to. In the end Hitlers soldiers were holding down Mussolinis "country". Most of Italy was already freed by allied forces but Mussolini still held a part of the North and ruled it as a republic. He was there only by Hitler's grace and basically his puppet.
I doubt it, he wanted to create more Germans and nords not assimilate Mediterraneans
@@Nocturne33 according to his race theory the majority of people in a lot of the invaded countries (all countries in Africa, Greece, Poland, Romania...) were of the "wrong race". That didn't stop Hitler as they still gave him resources and strategic advantages as well as power.
The Italian Social Republic was purely a German puppet state. The Kingdom of Italy (when it was dominated by the National Fascist Party) was not a German puppet state but was doomed to become an economic puppet state of Germany, just like Hungary and Romania.
you've got that feeling because you fell for online memes about le evil mustache, he probably didn't even care about france, his aims were against poland and russia, he had to invade france because they would obviously have intervened against him.
Thanks for this...I never knew much of anything about this time period in Italy, neither from school nor from my Italian family and friends.
I swear, the recommendations are predicting the future
Weird History, I want to thank you for these videos. Honest to god, if schools used videos like yours to teach and talk about history, it would have been so much more interesting and enjoyable.
This whole "trains running on time" business reminds me of what Stalin's fans are preaching in Russia these days. "There was law and order, young people behaved, and there were no drunks in the streets. And the ice cream tasted great, too. Ahh, the good old days!"
fun fact: ice cream still tastes great ... no need for stalin :-)
Dictatorship is the same everywhere
Same with the far right saying the military dictatorship was actually good here in Brazil.
"There was less violence, you could go out without fearing for your life, the economy was booming and only criminals and comunists were tortured, honest people had a good time."
Of course they ignore all the children the military tortured and killed for example, all the censorship, all the people who were "suicided" (yea, they'd kill political dissidents and say they commited suicide) and so on.
I'm sure the thousands of people who starved really appreciated the ice cream...
People always tend to glorify the "good old times" that's normal but really disturbing when they refer to times of dictatorship, fear and/or cruelty.
It's thankfully rare in public where I live but that's because quite a lot of things refering to our last dictatorship are forbidden by law. Things like denying the Holocaust, swastikas, the "Heil Hitler" with a risen arm...
There's this vlogger called Bald and Bankrupt who travels around Russia speaking to locals, often asking older folk who lived under Soviet rule what life was like, and most tell him that life was better then. I'm not sure how much the brainwashing of the time plays into that though
Weird history gets straight to the point. Nice and compact info.
It's amazing how some countries still mirror these situations in recent years.
America is rotten to the core with criminal, treason lovin ,corrupt fascism!😡
@@nicolebrown1927 i agree BLM and antifa are the closest thing, if you dont agree with me we will burn and loot
@@brolim. really? Fascism is when people riot due to centuries of oppression? Not, I don't know, the white chauvinism that has always existed in the US? Your country is literally built on imperialism and genocide yet the pushback of the people you couldn't kill off is fascism to you? Holy mother of white fragility dude
@@lucasartore161a name a place that is not built on that dude you are a hypocrite who is anti america. The black race is coddeled in america now this is not the jim crow and previous eras they have equal rights
@@lucasartore161a facism, oppression, imperialism in one sentence? calm down commie stop repeating what you read on twitter
I love how after deporting those gay men, they just stuck them on an island together in the Mediterranean. Like, it's hilarious to think that sending these gay guys on a small island 'vacation' together was some sort of punishment. Can only imagine what it was like there for that period of time.
And I don't know if you ever got to see the island itself, I live nearby. It's literal paradise.
Someone needs to make a book series/movie/anime.
@@banyalaplace speak for yourself
@@mahfoudseraf5995 well, now it's a pleasant island to visit, I'd totally reccomend it! But of course being a prisoner is another story, they weren't in vacation
Singles island 🏝 lol hey at least they escaped the brutality some othe cultures perpetuated on gay men.
my best friend said that during WWII her grandfather (as a child) had to go through minefields first and that they often picked stuff off corpses just to survive. her dad's side of the family is italian
Could you make a video about Leopold II's brutal murder of 10 million people in the Congo? I recently learned about this and it broke my heart. There's a famous photo of a father looking at his murdered toddler's hacked off hand and foot that really shocked and angered me.
Horrific chapter in African and world history.
yeeeeesh
The Herero Genocide is another similar topic not often brought up
An excellent book on that subject is King Leopold's Ghost.
I dont get how when a genocide occurs by other nations the nations are at fault, but with the congo genocide its always leopold. I mean, yeah, it was his property, but so was germany to hitler and the USSR to lenin and stalin.
I'm italian so I've always knew these things but it is interesting reading the comments from people around the world. I've also read my grandma's schoolbooks from that era and they are weird
How are they weird?
viva il Duce
@@mich722 there is a chapter about human races, and math exercises are about the war, like calculate how many soldiers died, and literature was about how great Italy was, and there was almost an obsession about being healthy and clean
@@mich722 it said "Italian colonies spread over 3 continents: Europe, africa and Asia"
@@gaia7240 nel mentre negli usa vigeva l'apartheid e spesso bruciavano un colorato, non si può leggere il passato con gli occhiali del presente perchè una volta era tutto diverso, le cose vanno viste nel quadro generale della politica e delle convinzioni morali di allora! Lo sai che io sono andato a scuola negli anni 80 e sul sussidiario delle medie c'era la divisione in razze tra europoidi,negroidi, asiatici e australoidi.?
What we don't hear often on TV or YT are tales from people that actually lived under fascism. My grandmother lived during that time, she told us that life was pretty normal and that the fascists even gave poor people free land for them to farm. Her and my grandfather were communists and never got in trouble for it, despite that "fascists were everywhere" like she told me.
As for political repression, a thing you forgot to mention is how Mussolini was part of the Italian Socialist Party, but was kicked out as he was supporting Italy participation in WW1. He then fought against basically all of the left as they were pushing for a proletarian revolution, when Mussolini was advocating for workers and land/factories owners to work together and have balanced rights (the fascists were the ones to introduce the 40 hours work week and minimal wage as well, before that there was no limit on how long you could work and how low you could have been paid)
Another thing is about racism/antisemitism. Mussolini publicly blamed Hitler's racist policies in one of his speech in 1938 in the city of Bari. The following discriminatory policies that were then put in place in Italy were just there for Hitler to "like" Italy, as the Stesa Front (an alliance between Italy, France, and the UK against Germany) was cut short because of the Second Ethiopian War. The only repression against jews were made under the Italian Social Republic, basically a puppet of Germany after the allies invaded Italy in 1943. A few years before, Mussolini even advocated for the creation of a "jewish state" in Palestine and also advocated for Christian and Jewish soldiers to work together despite religious differences during WW1
bravo diglielo a tutti quegli italiani che si abbeverano a questi video di propaganda, bisogna sentire le persone che ci vivevano allora e diciamo che fino 1938 la vita era normale tranne che per qualche bolscevico che voleva far diventare l'Italia come la Russia!
Domestically the Italian Fascists weren't that extreme compared to other authoritarian dictatorships, and like all controversial things it's hard to be objective and people flip out even if you say something positive about Italian Fascism even if it is factually historically correct. The bottom line though is anything positive the Fascists did was outweighed by Mussolini's decisions in the late 30's. His foreign policy in general was abysmal, and even other Fascists turned on him eventually for allying with Hitler. He ran any potential the Fascist movement had into the ground with his egotism.
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Since 1927, the Soviet Union has been experiencing a shortage of personnel in the amount of 12 million people, and this is against the background of the demographic explosion in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. unemployment in Europe at this time is monstrous. the end of the First Five-Year Plan (1927-1932) doubles the shortage of personnel, and Stalin publishes a plan for the Second Five-Year Plan, which implies the creation of even more jobs. and in Germany in 1933 Hitler came to power against the background of the suppression of the socialist revolution . the Russians have figured out how to create millions of jobs in 5 years. Hitler and Mussolini figure out how to turn all the unemployed into fertilizers for Russian fields in 4 years.
for more laughter, look for photos of Italian captured soldiers. a Russian escort in a sheepskin coat, felt boots and a fur hat and Italian captured soldiers in equipment suitable only for September. Mussolini didn't even have money for sheepskin coats for his soldiers! 🤣
Man it sounds like fascist Italy sucked then that’s bland as hell may as well support the early 2000s republicans for that Zionist liberal garbage
@@Utsubuyup, Italo Balbo would have been a more ideal fascist leader for Italy. He was fair and very popular with people under his rule like in Libya for example. He had great relations with the west.
You should do a video with the mafia getting cracked down on by Mussoloni plus the mafia helping the allies land with in Sicily with Operation Husky.
right, Mussolini was the only who smashed down the Mafia!
Such a good topic that no one really covers!
the mafia since then still run Italy
I would like a video about the fighting in the (Italian) Alps in WWI. It's a terrifying and fascinating time. They bombed whole mountain tops!
Definitely this, war in the dolomites was terrific!
I had one grandfather partisan and one monarchist. The first one fought against fascism in the civil war (43-45) but at the end of the war saved several fascist lives from wall shooting, because he always said that an Italian can’t kills another Italian. The other grandfather became public prosecutor and then magistrate of Italian republic, and till his death (2021) he always sticked up for the king of Italy and monarchy, he hated the republic and said that the real owner of Italy is the savoia’s family (he wasnt fascist)
So basically they both sucked, I’m sorry
@@BrandonRyker I'm sorry, how does the first one suck? he fought against an oppressive regime AND decides not to lower himself to their level of violence and brutality. that's two points in favor, if you ask me.
@@orlandoavogadro It is just as judgemental to say that only one of them sucks..
@@lesbiangeese3737 but it is the truth however
@@vintheguy repeat it a few more times, but it won't change it from an opinion to a fact.
Expanding your argument would however make it possible to convince me.
It’s no so much fascist/nazi/communist that’s bad as it is a government that punishes people for disagreeing with the party line. That can happen in a democracy as well
Well said, authoritianism in general is always bad. And yes, 9/10 modern authoritarian states are completely democratic. This is actually one of the reasons our founders in the USA disliked democracy, because if everything is controlled by a vote, then all you have to do is control the vote and one party can rule forever. And people can absolutely be tricked and coerced into voting against their own self benefit. Communism/socialism/fascism were just ploys and false promises that were used to achieve authoritarianism.
True. Very True.
No, fascism is inherently bad. There's literally no way to have an acceptable fascist government. They are authoritarian by nature. Fascism is ultra-nationalism, dictorial power, and oppression of opponents, all by design. There is literally no way to have this in a way that is humane or fair. Communism without authoritarians maybe.
That is the literal nature of fascism/naziism though. If you had the freedom to meaningfully disagree, it wouldn't be fascism
No
You know… it’s weird to think that Mussolini was one of the more “gentle” authoritarian(?) leaders of modern history. Like.. the fact that we have worse examples than him today, excluding the obvious Kim Jong-un, is quite interesting.
Formally he was still a prime minister appointed by the king, and he didn't need to be that harsh, because, for the first 10-15 years of regime, it had been quite popular. In particular the years 1929-1936 are known as "gli anni del consenso" (the years of consent) where the regime managed to keep the country out of the great depression, and introduced several welfare measures. The opposition was more a curiosity, almost a sign of snobism, than a real threat.
Yeah he wasn't bad, they just make stuff about him to keep the "evil fascist bad guy" trope alive.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k so what you’re saying is that the stuff mentioned in this video are “fake news?“
@@DeadlyAlienInvader Could be, most of what he cites are secondary sources, aka not hard evidence and are a mock to truth and history. As far as I know, many allied politicians like FDR and Churchill were fans of Mussolini's politics, especially during the Great Depression, since Mussolini's economy was free from the global banking cartel it was immune from the hyperinflation the other nations suffered. A large reason for destroying Italy was for that.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k oh well, everybody has a brightside! And if that prevents anybody from being called a bad person, then everybody that existed are “good” people then, 🤣.
Both of my paternal grandparents were born in fascist Italy, and it’s weird for them to think about Mussolini after living in America for so long. My grandmother thinks of it as you never think of yourself as the bad guy in the moment
Italy should've stayed that way
Hey Weird History Channel. Could you do a video on "What Life Was Like on a New England Whaling Ship"? It was a fascinating, gruesome, and often misunderstood occupation that I think you guys would do a great job of showing.The Nantucket whaling museum and the Mystic Seaport are great tourist attractions today that hold a lot of artifacts and documentation from that period of history, as well as the Ron Howard film "In the Heart of the Sea"- the true story about the sperm whale attack on the whaling ship 'Essex' that inspired the story of Moby Dick. Happy holidays!
Sometimes people would fall inside the whale during the butchery process, unknown to their fellow workers, and have to eat their way through walls of blubber to escape.
I live near the Tremiti islands, I can confirm. Also, the surprise detention happened frequently here, they usually imprisoned the artists and people of culture.
There is only 1 thing positive in that 20 years, the fact that someone inside thegovernment understood the greatness of Fermi Majorana and Co. And put a lot of money in the research field. Building advanced centre of research in phisics that bruoght several nobel prizes over the decades.INFN in Frascati is amazing place to visit, I hope next spring will be possible to visit again after the covid captivity
Thanks for your efforts to make history fun and interesting.
I went to a military museum in 1965. Among other things on display was that strange coffee-can shaped hat Mussolini wore.
Okay, a mix of interesting eclectic facts and great exaggeration. According to the Wiki article on Capital punishment in Fascist Italy - from 1926 when capital punishment was reintroduced, to the start of the war in 1940 a total of.......9....people were executed by fascist Italy - mostly for attempts on Mussolini's life I believe. I wonder how many people received the death penalty in the USA, UK and France in the same 14 year period? The thuggery of fascist blackshirts mirrored the thuggery of their communist and socialist rivals. Homosexual acts in the UK were punishable with up to life imprisonment in the UK as late as 1967 - in fact in 1953 there were over a thousand gay men in prison in UK for gay acts, not 45 men exiled to an island, and women did not receive the vote in France until 1945.
Gosh, some context completely changes the image you are presenting of fascist Italy compared to what life was like in the rest of the western world.
Mussolini was a warmongerer, that was his worst crime. People died in wars he started. He was a very bad man, but so were many world leaders at the time.
As regards propaganda for kids and censorship of the press, that sounds like today in the west, where the leftist elite control these things and spouted lies like Russia Gate for 4 years, censored any mention COVID may have come from a Lab and abuse Canadian truckers and others in the name of their politician friends...
According to wiki 😂😂 the fuck
thanks
I mean at least these days gay people dont get exiled to an island, we have modern medicine to deal with pandemics, the 'leftist elite' dont shove everyone they disagree with in prison and we dont send women who dont want to fuck a dude into an asylum.
Get vaccinated sweetcheeks, the world is still pretty right wing.
Awesome hope we step back a bit
Uno che dice la verità, finalmente
I’d like to see the cause of the fighting in Belfast and the current politics there
Belfast is in Ireland, part of Englands very first colony, and is still an English Colony. A Fraction of the Island of Ireland, the 6-Notrth-East Counties are Un-free.
@@johndoe-ss9bz I want to learn what lead up to this, and the fights between east and west Belfast, the Protestant and Catholic fighting and the why of it all
@@SoCalRegisteredNurse Britain colonised Ireland, the colonists want to remain part of the UK and the native Irish want to be part of their own nation, it's not so much about religion, it's more about race.
@@adammacgreagoir4924 Race? Do you mean culture? My husband is a McNamara And when I was little I would see the fighting in the streets on the news and from what I remember there was East Belfast, the protestant side, and west Belfast, the Catholic side. The BRITs have a liking to colonize
This piece of history is so creepy and so relevant.
All Communism in history is creepy.
History pieces have often that particular "taste", and maybe that's why some prefer to stay in oblivion, like Gisele for instance.
@@giselematthews7949 authoritarians tend to kill millions left or right
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fascism is the opposite of communism.
....as is state capitalism, like China.
@@giselematthews7949 not communism, learn something!
Every old Italian I ever met had a love for Mussolini. He saved Italy from the fate of eastern Europe, Bolshevik atheism and murder.
this video doesn't highlight the reason why fascist came to power, after 2 years of violence from socialist factions, in Italy a red revolution was about to take place. This credit should be concede to fascists.
By making an alliance with Nazi Germany and helping to plunge the world into a World War, in which Germany attacked Russia and killed millions of its inhabitants, *which was the reason why* the Soviets successfully counterattacked and (of course) imposed Bolshevik atheism and murder in East Europe - including East Germany? Chronological order of events, anyone?
And, of course, you forget the fate of Italian Jews. Do old Italians also love Mussolini for what happened to over 7500 of them? Or do they think that's a negligible amount of innocent people murdered for the sake of keeping their way of life? For which they should rather thank the British and Americans who liberated them before the Russians arrived?
Why is it that the word fascism acquired its meaning?
Chilean here. I know how it is to live in a real-life fascist dictatorship. Don't believe what your old Italians say. Reality ain't pretty.
The people your talking about is problably the boomers that are more ignorant than rocks and vote people such as Matteo Salvini
Life in Fascist Portugal! I think it has a lot of history and funny facts that would be cool to cover
Salazar wasn't really a Fascist but Yeah, you are right overall.
Portugal had an interesting history in world war 2 that virtually no one knows about, but Lisbon was a hotspot for government officials and spies 😊 Ian Fleming, the author that created James Bond, served in Lisbon and apparently created the character based on a Serbian double (triple?) agent. Also, Salazar allowed the uk (who convinced them to let us, the Americans) to use the Azores as an air base. But they were also afraid of Hitler’s wrath, so they also hid nazi gold and sold tungsten to create weapons for both sides, though the Brits were allowed to run up a hefty tab, whereas the nazis had to pay up front. Salazar might have been ‘relatively’ harmless, but he made his own people suffer and go hungry in order to continue catering to both sides
Source: I once wrote a paper talking about Portugal’s role in WWII a few years ago
@@giulianoilfilosofo7927The Portugese fascists were the national syndicalists
One of the most bizarre things about Fascist Italy were the internment camps that just left people alone. They rounded up gays, and then just let them be gay without any additional punishment. Even Jews during the war were rounded up and then sent to furnished housing inside camps where they could live quietly. When the Nazis tried to exterminate these Jews, the Fascists simply moved them to another camp where they wouldn't be found.
The worrying thing is the amount of support he still has now in Italy
A few days ago they also won the elections. The democratic forces have practically done everything to lose.
W il Duce
It’s actually inspiring
I want you to do a video on the All Japanese American military unit that did crazy hard missions and succeeded where the other units couldn't.
Yep, 422nd, even when the Japanese fight for the wrong side they still outperform their American counterparts in their own Army.
This is probably why the greatest US military defeats, Fall of Philippines, where 100,000 americans surrendered & 45,000 died/wounded to the outnumbered Japanese forces.
Battle of salvo island was the worst US naval defeat in history too. Mikawa Gunichi was a highly competent admiral.
Even in Iwo Jima, when the Japanese empire about collapsed, they still fought to the very end and it took 110,000 Americans+ many ships and planes to kill 20,000 nearly a whole month when with any other force that would have taken days.
The American military has never lost so many as much as to the Japanese once. Germany a close second.
The 442nd Infantry Unit. Their motto was "Go For Broke".
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While I'm greatful for the Japanese Americans that fought against tyranny and won...the US beat Japan. Despite the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, the naval battles Japan won, Battle of Wake Island...none of it mattered. In the end the Japanese lost.
In the Pacific Theater American forces took down one Japanese Island after another. After obliterating their troops in Iwo Jima, Okinawa was the next stop. Not even their surprise attack nor Battleship Yamato could save the Japanese. The US troops drove the Japanese to the Southern coast of Okinawa for a last stand for they knew if the Americans took Okinawa defeat was all but inevitable. On May 6, 1945 Hacksaw Ridge was taken and with it the Japanese chances of ever winning a war.
The Americans took 49,000 casualties
The Japanese 110,000 casualties
Those numbers are quite decisive and the atomic bombs followed ending the Pacific Theater once and for all.
@@Sinn0100 Yes I've read a history book as well. Most people are aware the Axis powers lost the war. That is why the Modern world is so disgusting.
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What?! No, the Axis Powers deserved exactly what they got. As did the Soviet Union when it collapsed. All extremism needs to go...all of it. Fascism, Communism, nope.
My grandpa was in the Italian resistance then him and his wife moved to NYC a bit after the war ended. They left their families behind and never visited them again. I’m not sure why but shoot, could be many reasons.
Funny! My grandpa was a Jewish doctor who in 1943, after the Germans took over Northern Italy, had finally to flee for Swiss. They placed him in a refugee camp near Basel, where he healed a seuriosly ill US Army Major's wife. The Major then offered him a chief position in some clinic in USA, but Grandpa refused. As soon as he could (summer 1946) he got back to his beloved city in Northern Italy, where he peacefully died in 1991 aged 84.
I am Italian, my grandfathers lived through that time, and this video contains so much opinion based information it's incredible how many lies you can spread today without consequences (speaking of PROPAGANDA am right?)... I am no fascist and I don't like Mussolini, however, generally speaking life in Italy became better after Mussolini came to power (although be it in a totalitarian fascion), the economy grew significantly, the food supply increased, the people were happier generally speaking as the Mafia was demolished by the state and the nation was more united than ever. In fact, most great additions to the Italian consitution were made under the ruling of Mussolini (which seems a bit counter intuitive at first, but isn't when you get to understand that he really wanted Italy to prosper). Mussolini is a controversial character, because all these things could be achieved under a democracy too (although in a much slower pace), and not to speak of the wars he brought to other coutries during his ruling....
You shouldn't antagonize someone you don't know anything about at all. You don't know what he did for Italy nor the Italian people. He did some horrible things like war, but you have no idea how much good he did (and also isn't the U.S. beringing war literally everywhere nowadays? Don't see you complaining about them huh).. Please inform yourself before making a video about something you know anything about.
My dad was in primary school (1933-2019) and the boys had little uniforms with an M on it like little fascist Scouts😕 It wasn't exactly what you could choose to join, you were in! You really had to watch what you said in those times. My mum's still alive and it's crazy to think she actually lived through this alien world! (Yes, I started my comment early and I finally got a look at that ridiculous uniform!)
Jesus christ mate your dad was in primary school for a long time!
@@sammaker6272 School in Italy is hard
Love love the channel...can you make a video about life in the confederacy during the civil war...thankyou keep up the good work
my grandparents always said that the best govern and quality of life style they ever had was during fascism. Things like retirment funds were not in place in italy before fascism. To be honst it is fairly hard in Italy to find old people that talk negatively of fascism.
How did things just shift back to normal? Can we get an explanation on how to recover from fascism?
It was HIGHLY unpopular among the citizens.
Folks in this thread are correct-fascist groups almost always rely on a single authoritarian figurehead; once that person is dead/imprisoned/discredited/otherwise out of the picture, the fascist regime falls apart. Usually, the longer a fascist regime is in power, the more upset the people living under the regime become, because fascist regimes have to continually add more and more repressive, violent, and subjugative policies that ruin the lives of the people just to stay in power.
left wing policy/reform.
Fascism never ended. Just look at the world around you.
@@donHooligan LMAO! The people on the left are the modern day fascists!
The picture @ 7:07 is actually one from my grandparents hometown in Italy! The place is called Letino / Gallo Matesse and those are the traditional costumes they wear during festival times in August/September. Even in Canada we have a small festival durring the September long weekend and people here dress up in the same costumes and do the traditional dance. I've even got dressed up and danced a few times!
Greetings from valle agricola 😀
~10:47 For some reason they call it the "Italian Socialist Republic" here, but for most of Mussolini's reign Italy was officially called the Kingdom of Italy (including during the time all of the policies he mentions were passed). During a brief period toward the end of WWII, after the Allies occupied Southern Italy and Germany occupied the North, Italy was renamed as a Republic, but it was called the Italian *Social* Republic, not Socialist.
90% of all industry was held by the state. So yeah it was socialist
@PepeTheFrog social, not socialist...
Italy was officially the Kingdom of Italy during all of Mussolini’s reign, the Italian Social Republic was a puppet formed in Northern Italy in 1943
would have to say this is a part of WWII story of which I had never heard much.
Good video. One detail: the emblem of the Socialist Party displayed at min. 03:35 was introduced in 1978; the emblem in the 20s of last century was totally different and based on hammer and sickle (the reference to red carnation only appeared in late 70s)
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What an interesting history!
My grandparents were part of the first wave of colonists sent to the pontine marshes south of Rome in the late 1920s/early 1930s, and helped drain, built, and settle the swamps where the planned city of Sabaudia would be built. They escaped after the allied and German bombings of the civilian quarters (mistaken for rail depots), and would, much to their future chagrin, move to Venezuela, where they would have to flee another despotic venture in 1999 after Chavez began expropriation of property and assets of the wealthy “others” (white European descendants, professors, cultural figures, lawyers, etc). I think it’s safe to say that I kind of have a genetic predisposition now to be skeptical of any government or governmental figure that wishes to curtail individual freedoms for a diaphanous “greater good”.
Biden
Life during the Civil rights movement!
water hoses and sit ins
It was great for us lol 😆
Thank you for this video ! 😊💐
Dang you can almost see the similarities in modern states like China and North Korea.
This is very biased report of fascist Italy. I wouldn't trust the source.
Still better than the Soviet Union tbh
My grandfather was born in 1930 in Italy. He told us that children of illegitimate birth had their last names changed under facsist rule. He and his siblings were thus renamed to a name starting with U.
Does anyone know more about that rule? I couldn't really find anything on the internet about the treatment of illegitimate children and their mothers in Italy at the time.
What the shit? No, I haven't.
@@Delightfully_Bitchy yeah it's a 'fun' little anecdote. Apparently of Mussolini had won I would now be named Uletti. Which I'm not. Not even close.
Sadly I can't find anything to support it. But then most sources would be in Italian which I don't speak. At least not more than a visit to a restaurant would require.
I don't really think that this is a real or legit story. There isn't even a word in Italian that is similar to illegitimate child and starts with an U.
I don't even know, why they should do that in the first place. There was, as far as I know, even laws that supported single mothers or illegitimate children. So I'm a bit confused myself.
Don't know about that, but friends of mine in Trieste (where many has slavic origins) said that their grandparents had their surnames changed to sound more "italian"
Credo di sapere la risposta. Mussolini non c'entra . Era una regola dei befotrofi . Si davano dei cognomi inventati e ogni tanto si cambiavano le lettere dell'alfabeto come iniziali. Ciò facilitava l'individuazione della data di nascita.
It's about time that this piece of History is being shown and taught. Especially now when we see it being repeated right here in the United States. Younger Generations don't realize what's happening because they don't have the history taught to them properly. This is not an accident. They've been raised to be politically ignorant of what happened in the early 20th century.
Exactly.
Absolutely.
Yeah and a lot of older generations too, Trump used a lot of the same tactics as 20th century Fascists to get elected in the first place. Also could you explain further on how people aren’t having history taught properly?
@@fishsteakyelk341 The school system for a long time now has not been teaching history. All you have to do is ask anybody who attended School in the last 20 years how much knowledge they have of 20th century political history. Many schools don't teach history at all anymore they discontinued it a couple decades ago. They also discontinued the teaching of geography which is important if you want to understand what happened in the past and how it affects the present and the future. My guess is that you could not find any younger person, or for that matter older person who has any idea how Hitler and Mussolini and the other Fascists of the time came to power.
@@geraldtrudeau3223 Is it dependent on the area? American schools get most of their funding from property taxes right? I’ve heard of a lot of schools in lower income areas that can’t afford certain courses.
It was heaven compared to what Italians have now. No mafia, people working together and decent territorial defense force. Why did he go with the Germans.
Gurl no 💀💀
That is true!
Please do a video (or brief series) to explain the differences between fascism, communism, nationalism, and capitalism. Too many people think they know the meaning after hearing it from biased cable news sources or from politicians (even worse). Thank you for the great work!
@Jo Jo the government here in the US is closer to authoritarian Marxist, screaming fascist at everyone who disagrees with them. I'm talking about the far left socialists and so called "progressives"
@@jr2904 the goverment of america are neolibreals not socialists
@Jo Jo Agreed but the people in power are culturally left-wing.
@Jo Jo You know what? Your right about this one I think bro!
@Jo Jo I still think there is an anti freedom of speech sentiment in the democratic party though.
As of September 2022, it seems that most people in Italy either forgot about this period of their history or want it back
Fascism never truly died in Italy it just went underground.
@@orkotron007 "L'Italia è ancora fascista". Alessandro Barbero (respected Italian historian and a reliable source).
Bullshit. It is a democratic party voted in a democratic way. I was not among their electors, but this cheap way of thinking is disrespectful towards people. Even a Jewish-Italian leftist such Moni Ovadia said that calling Meloni a fascist is worng.
My great-grandparents were members of the Fascist Party and one of them even participated at the March on Rome.
Later on, on of my great-grandfathers participated at the pacification of Libya and the Abyssian campaign.
Even the brother of my great-grandfather was part of the Black Brigades.
They all kinda loved the new fascist order - but no one had a Problem with "lesser freedom", since they had jobs, something to eat etc.
Well i love the fact theyre burning in hell for not caring the goverment was locking other groups of people up, because at least they had jobs!
@@sandran17 I mean, that's a thing every government does. If you ensure good material conditions, then no one will try to throw you out of your power position.
My grandfather grew up during Mussolini and was indoctrinated in the fascist ideas and to this day he is a little fascist.
ur comment made my day
He genuinely sounds amazing. Wish him and Mosley could come back 🤝
So history must repeat itself 🙃🙃
Honestly, this doesn't sound so bad, I expected it to be worse.
@@emilionovembre8934 I thought Mussolini treated muslims there well. Thats the reason they gave him a sword of islam.
@@alfredsugarman There almost weren't Muslims in Italy
@@masterjunky863 libya
True, Fascist Italy might be a “bad guy”, but if I’m forced to live in a fascist-occupied area, I’d probably choose Italy
@@TheDanksbad guy? Says who? America? Russia? Who is America or Russia to judge?
Fellini's film 'Amarcord' goes into some experiential detail of life under Mussolini, and because it's Fellini, I can't recommend it enough.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
Thanks very much for the video, which made me realize how creepy fascism was. I am italian and unfortunately a large proportion of the population doesn’t know the truth about fascism, or they just hide it to their minds and call themselves “fascist” because of the deep hate they bring inside; the hate against immigrants, against how the country has been ruled in the last three decades at least, the level of inefficiency in the bureaucracy and corruption in politics. Anyway fascism was a horrible period and we should keep that in mind.
I would like to add, regarding the family policy during fascism, that the State incentivized family having boys (who could then join the army because of the military conscription). People used to say “Auguri e figli maschi” which means “Best wishes and have male children” to new married couples for this reason.
At least we got an idea of Country. Today is a complete shit
"Italian fascism... creepy. Anyway, I just had my 11 year old transition genders and my husband is holding a polyamorous orgy tomorrow, exciting times!" - This is the sentiment and spirit of what the left is about. If you want to talk about creepy, it's this. Fascism is much more in line with nature, it's anti-egalitarian.
@@AlexAlex-jz1kq you know, germans don’t think the way you do. So if our country cannot find a different idea of itself I would rather move abroad (and that’s what I did).
i miei bisnonni erano italiani, ho la cittadinanza da quando sono nato e stavo pensando di vivere in italia l'anno prossimo, con l'attuale governo non so se sarà possibile, è triste
@@EduardoBelle1 sono scappato anch'io. Ti assicuro che il paese e' triste gia' daun po. Ultimamente e' peggiorato di brutto, grazie al lassimo e al perbenismo di una classe politica corrotta ed incapace (tutta).
Le bande di stranieri impeversano in ogni dove ormai. Organizzati ed impuniti. Stai pure ovunque ti trovi. L'Italia non c'e' piu'
of course the italian police recommended that he bring wine
@T if they hadn’t, I would have serious doubts that they were actually Italian police.
By these difinitions , Starlin , Mao and Polpot and Castro were also facists. Why does nobody explain that facism can be left wing or right wing.
Because people confuse authoritarianism with fascism. Fascism is inherently authoritarian but not all authoritarian regimes are fascist
@raykandersbreivik658 almost all are now
They can't, let me explain it a little better, it is a corporatist economy, and ultrnationalist and ultramilitarist foreign policy, and heavily traditionalist on social issues like abortion, gay marriage, and others.
Stalin hated gays and gays in russia were sent to gulags. Mao jad similar views on LGBTQ.
2:19 Idk why but the whole sequence with the Italian cops was so wholesome, yet so Italian of them to do.
It would've been like a more theatrical version of Nazi Germany. Hitler more or less modelled the Third Reich structure on Mussolini's rule..but with the rigidity of a German instead of the bluster and hot bloodedness of an Italian.
Hitler did learn some of his stuff from Marx also. He even read him in his early days.
Hitler loved Mussolini but the italian didn't like the german, this is what Mussolini wrote in his diary about his first encounter with Hitler "The touch of his shy and wet hand, cold and almost stiff, his flawless of berliner mannequin, his glass eyes, his rigid mouth closed by two thin and yellow lips, with a tremor in my back reminded me of the wax masks of the great men I saw many years ago in the London museum"
2022: “was”?
Please elaborate
@@GrindingChicken he’s calling Giorgia Meloni a Fascist.
Watching this as an Italian abroad in late 2022 so I know what to expect when I go back home
Mussolini was like the original Chad vs Virgin meme.
Fascism cannot exist without socialism because fascism requires a large and powerful central government. Fascism simply occurs when a large socialist government turns sour.
I think you’re confusing socialism with capitalism.
@@XS-03_Apollo : No, he isn't. Fascism was a Socialist ideology and it strictly opposed Capitalism.
Drugs and their uses on soldiers to increase/decrease efficiency. The use of drugs was widespread and quite unknown this would be an awesome topic!
You should do a video about all the biggest warriors in history ie ghenkis Kahn Alexander the Great etc
He was and is a hero. May his spirit rise again, as Rome did through him.
Rome is still in shambles... Most of it's straight GHETTO.
It couldn’t be that bad. Rather be in a fascist regime then communist
Some of my grandmother's cousins were kidnapped and murdered by Italian partisans in Istria. Fascists didn't kill anybody around there
It's not about political orientation, it's about behaviour
@@WhiteChocolate74 yeah, i understand, extremism Is the problem, not political orientation
@@WhiteChocolate74 Wasn't there so i can't really say, but fascists didn't kill anybody in balkan peninsula doesn't sound right
@@HeWoNe don't know about fascist Croatia during ww2, but Italians under Mussolini didn't kill any of my grandmother's family. Not trying to defend fascism here and my story is anecdotal at best, but yeah
Even buying grocery was regulated and often drove people to retort to black market
The main lessons from fascism: 1) Don't drink the kool-aid. 2) NEVER drink your own kool-aid.
My grandma ( born in 1921) used to tell me things about those days. She complained about having to wear uniforms and perform marches during the "fascist saturdays" Public rallies. During the war she was one of the only two women attending the math faculty. She also survived the infamous fosse ardeatine event since she was walking nearby via Rasella that day. She also claimed her family helped some Jews although she was pretty unclear on that point. When the war was getting worse the duce asked for the Italians marriage rings and she donated a fake one made up for the occasion.In 1946 she voted in the first ballot open to women, voting for monarchy in the referendum. She later regretted that choice saying she that she would have voted republic.
In your last name, replace "Santo" with "Musso" 😂
Minor correction: it was the Italian *Social* Republic, not socialist.
Not even correct in that sense. The Italian Social Republic was established in 1943. Italy was a monarchy for the entirety of the interwar period
@@KaiserFranzJosefI Very true