Most people know about the brutality of Hitler’a Germany and Hirohito’s Japan but few know the brutality of Mussolini’s Italy. People know Mussolini as the guy who allied with Germany and the guy who’s army was such a joke and extremely incompetent. So Mussolini has been seen primarily as a clown in history and it makes it easy for us to forget how evil Mussolini was. So thank you for the video.
Saying than i'm not fascist, but Mussolini was not so brutal as people believe it was. Hitler and Hirohito was far more brutal than him. Actually Mussolini was well respected by Churchill for example, where there's historical evidence that Churchill was considering Mussolini as one of the greatest Politicians of Europe, even admiring him....until the WWII begun. So where is the truth, honestly? He was a well respected Politician as Churchill said or it was a Monster? To judge someone people should study in depth all the pre and post war historical documents.
@@solinvictus1234 Tojo you mean, Hirohito is just a yesman when it comes to these atrocities, but Tojo is directly involved in all. He said "hirohito's Japan", not the Emperor is the mastermind of it all, no, those were his Generals. The Japanese Army and Navy were in a powerstruggle, with the Army having more Fascist ambitions as the Navy focus more on stability. The Army and the Navy even fought each other a few times in Japanese infightings. and it's the Army that is most if not every Japanese War Crime.
@@solinvictus1234 your argument holds no water. Mussolini was respected pre war and therefore he couldn't have committed heinous crimes? Hitler was respected pre war too lmfao. I understand what you are getting at but that was a terrible example
Mussolini’s body wasn’t “dumped,” he was shot, along with his girlfriend, and their bodies were hanged from a metal girder above a service station. There are photos of Mussolini, and his girlfriend, Claretta Petacci, hanging, so they just weren’t “dumped.”
@@gwendolynmurray8201 I did too. He didn’t even look like Mussolini at the end. I’ve got relatives still living in Italy, and you can’t even say his name without having people spit on the ground cursing the day he was born.
@@toniremer1594 then why are his direct descendants still in politics? And why do his political descendants have positions of power? Like Meloni? Simplistic solutions always appeal in difficult times. Whether it’s communism or fascism.
@@TesterAnimal1 Those are phenomenally great questions, which I’ll try to answer them. Mussolini’s descendants may not be an ounce like him, which could very well be the reason why they’re in several governmental positions. Mussolini was Hitler’s puppet, and he had done everything that Hitler demanded that he do. The people of Italy hated Mussolini, and, in some parts of Italy and in some families, you can’t even say his name without someone spitting on the ground, and cursing the day he was born.
My friend was marched from his home at the point of bayonet. His friend fell down in the march. He he helped him. A soldier told him to leave the fallen man be and keep marching. My friend punched the soldier. The soldier slammed the butt of his rifle on my friends face. My friend went down. The soldier bayonetted him on the ground. The rifle butt didn't just know out his teeth, it knocked out all the bone below his nose. The soldiers left my friend for dead. Friendly townspeople took my friend in, nursed him back to health. This guy was really old when I met him. He would show his missing cartilage under his nose and pull up his shirt to show the bayonet scar to anyone, anyplace. He concluded his story by saying: " Lousy fascists!" This was 1987. He looked so worn out but he was a tough old dude who was still bitter about the incident.
@lepersonnage371 Haha. I saw the scar, keyboard warrior. I'm a boomer, our parents and grandparents saw the real thing happen. Our grandparents came over on a boat, English was a 2nd language. They fought real not zees, real japs, they got shot at saw their friends killed. They didn't play video games and see war in movies with cgi.
"Lousy fascists" Did he tell you what spurned them on? I am sure he was just eating ice cream on a bus stop bench not hurting anybody when the boogiemen fascies came and got him. What else did he leave out of his story?
@lepersonnage371 I'm a boomer, our parents generation grew up in the depression and fought in WWII. They talked about the depression, WWII, not much, but everyone knew they had seen some things and done them too. Many of our grandparents were born in another country and came to the USA on a boat. They had nothing but a suitcase or steamer reunk. English was a language they had to learn after they got here. I heard a guy on TV, it might have been Jim Gaffagan, who commented how boring the old people are going to be once the young people of today grow up. I think Jim was referencing people like you. That you dismiss my story as a fairy tale tells me you might you might be one of this young generation and have lived a sheltered, vanilla life with no real challenges or danger. "Grandpa, tell us about when you got your Xbox"
My grandfather who lived in Italy from birth to just after the war told me; In those years prior to Mussolini, Casa Nostra ran Italy. Government officials were terrified to go against or prosecute them. The Sicilian Mafia was the word. Crime was everywhere, small businesses shaken down, even churches had to pay tribute to the mafia dons in the regions. Criminal activity was just a part of life you had to live with. Thugs would walk into a home, take whatever they wanted, they raped women, committed violence, it was hell on earth. Once Mussolini secured power he eradicated organized crime in Italy. Brutal public executions of once untouchable mafia king pins were an everyday occurrence. Shops and small businesses thrived. Within 2 years you could leave your house doors unlocked all day, no one would dare try and rob. Because if caught, they would be immediately shot or hanged. As much as most Italians didn't care for a fascist dictator, there was some good that came out of his reign. Even Hitler was amazed at the almost total lack of crime in Italy's cities...Rome, Naples, Palermo.
Appreciate this information.... It proves there are always many sides to every story. Thanks for sharing. Interesting that he spared the biggest aria of ALL... The Vatican Elite Baby rapist .... & millennia old genocidal maniac were his friends
Mussolini was very popular in Italy at first. He brought social reform and would not let the rich abuse the poor. The mood of the Italians switched when he threw in with Adolf. An Italian told me when he was living in Italy, his family hid his cousin in their house. In the town she was in she had a German boyfriend when it was under German control and came under American control. She took off because she knew the town's people would want to even the score with her for having a German boyfriend. She stayed with the guy's family for a couple of weeks. She was smuggled into Switzerland to other relatives. Her uncle was a printer and he forged papers for her, so she could immigrate to the US.
Yes, partisans were known to cut those women's hair, beat them and force them to drink strong laxatives and/or outright killer them. She did well to escape.
Yeah there was a good reason why that traitor cousin was marked for death. Her boyfriend German soldier along with the other German military were responsible for the murder and torture of thousands of partisan Italians and sending Italian Jews to Auschwitz. She was complicit.
That’s a great story & shows the complexity that is lost on the subject of WW2 today. Fascism didn’t come out of a vacuum. It was a response to deep & aggressive divisions against Marxism/Bolshevism/communism. Ppl today don’t mention that some of the French Resistance & especially Italian Partisans were communists who had to flee or hide because they’d be rounded up & incarcerated or shot. The Nazis were well funded & supported throughout the mid to late 1930s by very wealthy ppl & companies & even some royalty because they were scared to death that they’d meet the fate of the Romanovs & upper classes in the Soviet Union if communism spread. In the meantime, communism became very popular amongst the poor & intellectuals all over the world as the economies suffered in the 1920s & 30s. As sentiments spread there was violence & reprisals. There was Civil War in Spain. Franco prevailed & also established his version of a Fascist govt. Some said they’d rather be nationalist or live under a fascist govt than a communist govt. Maybe we don’t even know where we would’ve stood if alive at that time but by the 1930s many were aware that millions had been killed in the Soviet system & how it had destroyed churches & killed clergy. Of course there was much evil perpetrated by fascists including genocide. Both sides killed millions of innocents, sometimes simply for their ethnicity. I In my opinion, there needs to be more knowledge about events like you described with the Italian family. If ppl understood how divisions in society eventually led to unthinkable violence & murder in history so recent then perhaps they would take steps to ensure that it can never be repeated in a world that seems ever closer to large scale warfare today.
@@r.williamcomm7693I read your whole comment and I agree with everything bro. The part that stuck out to me was at the end when you mentioned this history being so recent. I’ve literally been around people who know nothing about ww2 and think that it happened during medieval times or something lol. Also not realizing that 1945 was barely 80 years ago. People are insane but hopefully future generations take an interest in learning the history of this world.
Ok, your point about Hitler overshadowing Mussolini is well taken. I am in my 50s and I am only now really studying the history of Italy, and understanding how what happened there impacted the larger geopolitical world. Your explanation of how Franco's rise in Spain served as a training ground for Italian and German fascism is also well-taken. None of that is taught in schools in the U.S.
I am an American World History teacher specializing in early 20th century world conflicts to 1953. I teach everything from European royal inter-marraige, Imperialism, how the unsatisfactory conclusion of WWI brought about WWII, that the Spanish Civil War was a training ground for WWII participants in Europe, and the Armenian genocide that was so effectively referenced by Hitler (and almost unknown by most students today.) I especially enjoyed this unflinching video's description of Italian colonialism in Africa and the Catholic Church collusion with the Italian (and later Nazi) fascists. Unfortunately, the only people who allow me to teach this history are the parents of my private students. i was told in no uncertain terms that there wasn't room for such in-depth subject matter in "common core curriculum" in the states in which I've taught for the past 18 years.
@@amymontgomery5835 You're teaching wrongly. Spanish Civil War was not a mini II WW, it had a different background but some links to it. It was a monarchic-conservative-fascist coalition against three different disunited forces: communists, libertarians and anarchists. Communists were the strongest and fought against monarchic-conservative-fascist coalition and fought against libertarians and anarchists as well.
We learned it in Tennessee of all places in the 80s. In a cow town. Funny, when I was still on Facebook 8-9 years ago, I would see comments like this from time to time from my former classmates. I could not resist reminding them that they never actually paid attention in class to begin with, never read a chapter they weren’t required to read, and were not intellectually curious. At all. They were really mad at me after that. 😢
I was in the El Alamein War Museum recently in Egypt obviously. And each country has its own gallery. The Brit/Allied wing and the German wing both are filled with impressive hardware---tanks, machine guns, scout cars, etc. etc. The Italian wing, however, is dominated by --you guessed it---stylish uniforms. If the war had been between fashion houses and not armies the Italians would have won hands down.
Too bad that display never mentioned how the Allies of WW1 Which the Italians fought and won with them got screwed by those same allies and left Italy poor while the rest, England, France and the USA enjoyed the spoils of war but left Italy out of it while they lost lives fighting on their side. Italy was never a industrial powerhouse and YES, Mussolini was no better at waging war and the little painter from Austria. But if you dig deeper in the real history, you will realize, Mussolini was back stabbed by those same allies and had to ally himself with Germany, after he warned Hitler to keep his paws off Austria.
I don't like the SS uniforms, and the Italian ones (under fascism) were even worse looking. Goofy f@cks Red Army uniforms...now we're talking. Especially, NKVD
@Jered Lyon it wasn't anscluss that caused Britain and France to declare war on Nazi Germany (should've been) but it wasn't...the invasion of Poland was what did Ps: Mussolini was in bed with Hitler. He wasn't forced to do so. Italy joined Germany in aiding the fascists during Spain's civil war. That's REAL history
@@johnnyscifi Look, I never agreed or backed any Nazis or Fascists. The last thing I will ever be is a socialist and both of these regimes were the result of extreme socialism. But for someone to defend what France and England were doing to the rest of the world, prior to WW2 was NOT doling out freedom either. For someone accusing Mussolini for being a tyrant for invading Ethiopia and how the British came in to help to save them, to me, sound IRONIC. This is the same country that boasted how the sun never sets in the English union jack. I am sure all of those British colonies didn't invite the Brits to subjugate them and use up their natural resources, with open arms. The only thing you can blame Mussolini for was, him trying to get a piece of the pie after England and France got all the best pieces and all was left was a few crumbs, like Ethiopia. And he never got credit for ending slavery there, BTW, do you know why the USA got involved in Vi-et-Nam? Ever hear of French-Indo-China? Why we went to war against Ho-Chi-Man who we supported to fight the Japanese during WW2? To bail out the French, who were still there as colonials. You wanna count the lives lost under Hitler, Mussolini, Hiro, Stalin all you want. First, start with ENGLAND and the Revolutionary war of the American colonies!
@@MartineReed as we are experiencing under Biden and democrat censorship as they worship criminals and punish the Samaritans defending themselves and destroy the lives of those that oppose them to the tune of billions of dollars in damages in 2020 summer of love alone.
@@MartineReed on the contrary. TRUMP is the good man. The village is the bad place. He build and helped the contry more and thats measurable now... then obama and biden
@@sleyking123 Not remotely true, Theres 100's of hours of WW1 "footages". Peter Jackson released a whole movie compiled entirely of restored WW1 footage.
Mussolini was actually a British agent in WW1. He was paid 100 pounds per week (big money) to promote British interests... and you know what they say, once an agent, always an agent.
I watched a video of modern US and Italian forces comparing their MREs. The Americans had squeeze cheese and crackers, the Italians legit had a 3 course meal and their own little stove to cook it on. Some things never change.
Yes and the Italian MRE's were also unnecessarily big, didn't contain anything to drink like the U.S. Rations, and the Americans had a simple system to heat their food, also the Italian MRE takes to long to cook Actually I was surprised with how better the U.S. Military is better in almost every aspect compared to our adversaries and even Allies! Rather that's as simple as something as a M.R.E. or something more complex as armored vehicles in comparison to the rag tag, cheaply built Russian Vehicles you see in the Ukrainian War, I just totally underestimated the grand and might of the American Military!
@@MrLachapell Dude, are you seriously making that claim? That is so ridiculous it's laughable, you must've never actually met any single American person to think that. I don't even watch television that much at all and can list a dozen popular shows on various platforms Americans not only watch but like better than that particular show.
One thing not mentioned about ethiopia was different ethnic groups responded differently to the presence of italians. What is aretreya and the tegrayan areas were actually very pro italian and anti emperor because these areas were often subjugated by the emperor so depending on the area of ethiopia the italians were welcome and its part of the reason the italians had an easy time landong on the shores. The groups along the coastline were actually pro italian in most areas. This isnt saying the italian intentions were good but the choice of ethiopia had many details that were considered including the very pro christian ethiopian elements of these coastal groups with a closer attachment to the roman empire then other ethnic groups. This made this area of africa one of the easiest for moussilini to start with. There was very intense christian vs islamic fights between sthnic groups so some preferred the christian european countries over other african groups. Ethiopia was much more culturally isolated and easier to establish diplomatic relations with.
I presume you're not alluding to Mussolini being a hero to them, just that some used religious beliefs to align with a decidedly monstrous character that did NO favors to Ethiopia in the long run. Wilbur Smith has a few pretty good historical novels about this conflict.
@@justaguy6100 no, not a hero. More how the choice and relationship started. As he mentions in the video Ethiopia was never a part of European colonization. Ethiopia is also a very old Christian country (the 2nd oldest actually). It is culturally distinct. There was more opportunity for European influences rebel groups due to the culturally distinct character of costal Ethiopians. The italians actually did construct a large amount of infrastructure but most of it never reached completion because the itialians underestimated the difficulty of building through the high land mountains of northern Ethiopia. The tried to make rail systems (mostly to expand resources transport up towards Greece) but failed. As a result there was some decent ports constructed and starting transport systems that were useful to the local population but not to the italians (which caused them to leave Ethiopia as the war started to go against the axis powers). The result was a failed attempt at resource extraction. The infrastructure actually was very useful to northern Ethiopians but that isn't to saybthat was the intent of the italians at the time. The real goal wasn't accomplished and the results were incidentally beneficial to specifically northern ethiopians.
What, wtf are you talking about? Yes Eritrea was anti mainland Ethiopia but where did you get that they had ''very pro Christian elements" there? Eritrea is right now and was back then Muslim in majority, and majority of reasons for why they disliked being part of Ethiopia was that Ethiopia was ruled by and for Christians (ironically, excommunicated ones officially, due to their beliefs of Christ being an ocean of Godliness and a drop of man, while Christians in Europe switched it the other way around).
A peacock with a very thin skin. I learned about Mussolini in High School and he is a fascinating character. A great many faults an ego the size of Jupiter.
@@robertclark972 Did you honestly just compare Mussolini the fascist dictator and direct ally to Hitler, to Trump? Good lord, the Trump derangement syndrome never ends with you people. You jump at shadows, you imagine that he's this evil mastermind dictator one second than the biggest idiot the next, but whatever it is you are told to think about him by the media at any given time, it fills you with fear and hatred, it's laughable that you do that. Pathetic really. I for one came here to learn about Mussolini, and somehow you see someone from another century with a completely different ideology who did things completely differently, and it's still Trump. You might as well say that I remind you of Trump, the comparison is that thin lol. You guys are always good for a laugh, thanks!
I remember one of my HS teachers saying that his grandma used to do the Roman salut out of habit, despite her being against Mussolini, it's insane to think just how much he traumatized the generation that he took over.
What I find quite disturbing is, if you watch film of him in action, he looks like a comic character. With the faces he pulls etc. and yet, he's a ruthless dictator!
Did you studied british EMPIRE kings and prime ministers? Did you know any scumbags more dangerous as those, or some which started more INVASIONS all around the world?!
We’re in our 70’s. My wife’s grandparents immigrated from Sicily about 1910 coming to St. Louis. They left because of all the problems in Italy and no jobs or limited food supply. They were farmers, and were able to buy a small farm. They became very successful and fairly prosperous later in their lifetime
I spent a lot of my early years in Ethiopia, and they are very proud of people, especially since they were the only country to fight back the colonizers successfully. It's something more people should be aware of, I'm glad you made this video
This is not an accurate statement, Ireland was colonised for 450 years by the British, it became a free state in 1921 and totally independent in 1949. It was the first country to do so.
@@mariangrimsdell1112 Oh wow! That's really informative. I appreciate someone taking the time to put up the accurate information. 🧡 From Australia (where we are still part of the damn 'British Commonwealth'). It's an insult to the Aboriginal population to say the least. & Anyone who has Scottish, Irish, Welsh or came from severe poverty in England back when Australia was 'settled' - were dragged here in chains. It's an embarrassing sito all round. I am really glad for Ethiopia. ✌️
@@JHjh88 glad you found this information interesting, unfortunately history is a complicated mess because usually the ones using violence get to control and write the history books, there are political agendas being controlled by faceless people in many countries, there are political organisations being financed by private corporations for their own interests , the average person is usually clueless about the reality of their existence. An example of this is the polarisation of society in the US, the Black Lives Matter movement definitely have grievances, but blaming whites for their situation is not entirely accurate, 2,000 years ago it was mainly whites that were enslaved under the Roman system, this disgusting practice was passed down to the Ottoman Empire who continued to capture white and other slaves along the Barbary coast of North Africa, by the time the Industrial 🏭 revolution was under way the British first used to capture Irish people and send them as slaves to the new colonies in America, they used to constantly run away and mix with the local population, then they started capturing black people from West Africa to bring to the cotton and sugar plantations in the Caribbean and New Orleans etc.
He also had a vision of reviving the Roman Empire, and that led to brutal campaigns in places like Ethiopia and Libya, where he tried to assert dominance. The impact on these nations was catastrophic: violence, forced relocations, and cultural erasure. It was a tragic time where ambition turned into oppression.
I know it’s a minor nitpick issue, but showing ww2 war footage for the Italian war of 1911 and WW1 is very misleading. No armored personnel carriers, no tanks, no planes dropping bombs. That’s WW2. WW1 was artillery and trench warfare mostly. It wasn’t until late in the war were there tanks and such things. I know you are just showing stock war footage, but the war in which you are referring absolutely has footage for it. I apologize for being picky. Just would like to note that
The irony of the Axis is that in Hitler's view, the Italians were the second-worst-ranked Western Europeans. Only the French were worse, while the British were second only to the Germans. And yet, his allies were French and Italians but never British
Nope. He admired Italy for its beauty and for initiating the renaissance, which he saw as the cultural rebirth of Aryan man, and the fascist movement of Italy was the inspiration for his nazi movement as well.
@@heruy8274 the Nazi party existed around Mussolini's. What inspired Hitler was the March on Rome but Hitler's attempt in Munich was a disastrous failure.
I know something you never hear about Italy in WW2. My great uncle served there when he was 18. The people were starving. Children often approached troops to beg for food. So the Italians started strapping bombs to them to blow up foreign soldiers. American troops were ordered to shoot anyone that approached their lines. My uncle was sent home on leave for two weeks and did nothing but sit by the window and cry. He was then sent to France where he was killed by friendly fire at 19 years of age. Italy made the end of his life a living hell.
Sounds like stuff they came up with to excuse the numerous war crimes the allies committed over here. If you believe that, I have a couple WMDs to sell you.
The wish of the people to be ruled by a strong arm always backfires against the very same people who wanted the ruler to be "strict but just". The answer is never one person or strictness of the law. It's the functioning of democratic institutions and the working checks and balances.
Checks? Balances? EU Olaf reports father carried a luggage full of cash. Lobby money. The sin of Eva. Corruption level as in the rest of the world. What theater opens after Ucraina? Most EU are nuclear non have. The spirit of Troubadix. Damage in Ucraina € 3 Trillion. Who pays? Meloni is very brave. Ucrainian and Russian are dying by the 100,000. West Europeans are gaming.
I've never understood how he was taken seriously, he acts like he's auditioning for a Jim Carey style comedy or he's practicing his sell face for the WWE.
You’re def one of those girls that thinks men aren’t allowed to judge girls on their looks and weight, but at the same time you judge men with how they look.
@@malcomx1924 You're def one of those dudes who judges people on one comment and then gets all butt hurt when people point out how presumptuous and ignorant it is.
Quite enjoyable content! Smaller creators like you need to be supported. And nice to see no ads like on most bigger channels. I wish your channel well and that it grows and you get a good following
Faascist forces were able to _march_ through to Addis Ababa and keep it until 1941; however they were unable to extend the occupation to the rest of Ethiopia.
Benito Mussolini was born on the 29th of July 1883, not 1893. And it's called the "Biennio Rosso", not "Bidennio Rosso". Just these mistakes, the rest of the video is perfect, as always.
Not perfect. One extremely important fact: Mussolini was actually a British agent. It was recently discovered he was paid 100 pounds per week during WW1 to promote British interests
But at the end of the day, Mussolini's reign crumbled. When the going got tough, he couldn’t hold on to power. It’s a reminder that those who rule through fear and manipulation never truly conquer the hearts of the people. Leadership is about more than authority; it’s about responsibility.
As a boy I recall the overtly dramatic reaction of an Elder Italian Gentle, when someone mentioned this innately Fascist 🇮🇹 Dictator’s name., he started tearing @ his clothes… Years later., I finally understood his reaction 🌻 31:33
Great story… Video needs work though. Duplicate audio in parts, along with no sound mapping leading to quiet parts of dialogue. Keep at it! Good work 🫡
Mussolini held a Military Parade to impress his Countrymen, he had his fascists close off part of the City and arranged the crowd so that only one set length of road could be seen, so, as the Parade of equipment and arms passed, the lead vehicles had been instructed to quickly drive around out of sight and then join up with the end vehicles in the Parade, this ofcourse gave the impression that he had many more vehicles and much more equipment than he actually had...
This as a complete lack of period context,in Europe & America post WW1 thugs & police viciously beat union strikers at Ford, also during the General strike in Britain. Governments fought openly in the streets against Social & Communist groups many far more violently than in Italy! Also this skips complex events of the 1930's Britain supported Italy with gold shipments in the period, then the hypocracy of former Imperial Allies of WW1who controlled themselves 90% of Africa, who imposed sanctions on Italy for the attack on Ethiopia, which pushed Italy into the alliance with Nazi Germany! Giving Germany the confidence to help Franco in Spian, although there was racial laws in Italy from 1938, they in no way could be compared to Germany and Jews were not deported until after the collapse of the Italian government in late 1943, niether were they deported from territories controlled by the Italians prior to the German occupation. This fails greatly in educating people of the complex subject of fascist Italy and Mussolini!
When I was in college I had a professor show us videos of the Taliban going into cities and destroying churches and temples of other religions. This was before 911 and he warned us of extremist groups and compared them to the Nazis and other fascists.
He must have done some very nasty things to his own people , because he was given a brutal death by them in the end . His troubled youth should have been an indication that he was trouble .
9 times out of 10, a child's upbringing determines their decisions and way of life into adulthood. However, it is very lazy and immature to use your upbringing as an excuse to why you never change and grow from mistakes made. Nobody's upbringing is perfect, but what you learn from it and can grow from is everything.
westerners aren't very good at looking at people, they never look at cause and only looks at what's happening right now. Why do you think self defense, reactions are punished over the perpetrators? Action, not cause and intention, literally minded simpletons. Funny thing too, western scholars recognize that their people have lower levels empathy, poorer intuition, and lower emotional complexity so they can't perceive as holistically. Which leads to a lot of energy to act, high fervor stupidity unlike relatively peaceful east asians.
@@pretary1845 Same! They're so obviously terrible that they must be intentional to try and drive engagement but it just makes me want to click off the video.
He also pushed the idea of Italian supremacy, aiming to erase local culture. It was all about promoting Italian settlers in Libya, pushing locals to the margins. They imposed policies that were designed to assimilate the people into Italian culture, disregarding their heritage and history in the process. That type of cultural erasure is really hard for a community to bear.
If you go to Rome you can still see where Mussolini gave his speeches. It's near the Roman forum. The building that was once the headquarters of the black shirts is right beside it.
@@a.f.7246 and there's no freedom or individualism, the government can enter your bedroom which is a violation of Right-Wing Libertarianism Also old people only remember the good times and never the bad things
There were 12 people hanging from a girder in Milan including Claudia Petacci. Italians are still in shame about that. It was not mentioned in the video.
Really well done! Just a quick pronunciation tip: Gramsci is pronunced Gramshi, if I'm making my self clear (uk sh = ita sc). Aside from that, again, great video!
Mostly excellent, except for the error in the very first sentence of the commentary and descriptive intro text. You have BM being born in 1893, when, in fact, he was born in 1883. Surprising no one picked this up at the sub-editing stage.
Much of what was said about El Duce is also true of Franco in Spain. Especially the bit about the legacy of fascism and it's continued popularity in Spain.
You're kidding right Trump has done nothing fascist it's really weird that the fascists call Trump fascist while calling themselves anti-fascist antifa is nothing more than modern-day brown shirts and they work for the Democrat Nazi party notice we haven't seen them so much since Biden's been installed you don't really notice anything do you if you're true to your comment but that's the problem with the left they use words they really just don't understand all the while being the thing that they accuse everybody else of
the difference being that Franco had the wisdom to not fight alongside the axis. Kind of makes you wonder - both Portugal and Spain were authoritarian dictatorships, allying with opposing sides. But neither really became the full allies to their faction. Instead, choosing and actually being irrelevant in terms of geograpjy and people to achieve neutrality. They choose to be nobodies and they won because of that.
@@johnwriter8234 really ? No, more the Democrat aka SOCIALIST Party of the USA, Trump was trying to negate the Right of the People to keep and bear arms ? No, every democrat is trying to do that, and of course does not apply to them and their protectors. Wake up. The Democrats use destroying your personal character and career dare you say something they do not agree with. Every friend of mine who fled Cuba, Soviet Russia, China says our Democrat party has more in common with what they ran from.
@@Pilvenuga to be honest Franco had destroyed his own military strength so badly during the civil war to gain power there was no point in Joining the War on the Axis side anyways. But yeah all things considered irrelevance is mostly a good thing when you're a small country (when small enter not a Superpower). Spain was growing economically while most other countries were in the chaos of war. And Franco outlived most of the more famous leaders of WW2
Interesting video, but is it just me or is the audio in this completely fd up? Volume all over the place and weird sound effects (latter intentional perhabs?)
In the video it states he was born in 1893 in Italy, but was being arrested in Switzerland in 1903-1904 for socialist protests.I’m confused, was it error or was he really out the reforming socialism at 10-11 years old?
There’s a few other factual errors too: the mission to rescue Mussolini was actually “Operation Eiche” and the German puppet state was the “Italian Social Republic” - definitely not “Socialist Republic”.
American used over 600,000 italian and italo-americans to help defeat our enemys, Even though there were some interned in camps in Montana as Enemy aliens.
@@mooseface2293 yup I knew that alot of people forget italians were in camps in America like the Japanese were and a lot of people don't know italians weren't treated well in America for a while italians weren't even considered white until 1948
Hard to take this seriously when they mention England and France but fail to mention that Stalin's Soviet Until was one of the main supporters of the Rebulican side in the Spanish Civil War.
Germans promised Italy 3 more years to prepare in the Pact of Steel, then betrayed Italy invading Poland just 4 months later without ever telling Mussolini of their intentions dragging an unprepared Italy into WW II...TRAITORS...even so, Italy's Empire was larger than Germany's.
If Italy was more competent then, War between Germany and Italy would have broken out eventually. Even if they both crushed the Allied forces and got away with all the land they wanted, two large hegemonic empires with incredible military capabilities, their own nationalistic intentions and conflicting ideas around race could not co exist on that continent.
I love the video but, bro what is going on with your sound editing? there's sections where you're echoing and parts where the overall volume drops dramatically from the previous segment. Again I think this is a great video it just has some points that could make it even better.
Correction: The only country to support the Spanish republic was the USSR. Britain and France did nothing at all. Worse, they declared weapon embargo to prevent the republic from arming it self.
@@aleale6277 Nah, they weren´t. Also they might be better if democratic forces got that support, the fact that the USSR was the only country willing to helúp caused that communists got massive influence.
Thank you for this historical insight. The flow from beginning to end captures a nation's misleading downfall using violence as a means to enrich and expand while sacrificing lives for a psychopath's dreams turned into nightmares.
My great uncle was captured as a POW by the Italians in North Africa. They treated him with such unspeakable brutality that none of his brothers (my grandfather included) refused to eat any Italian food or support any Italian businesses. We have a large Italian refugee population where I am, most came over in the early 40s. If an Italian tried to speak to my grandfather, he wouldn't even look them in the eye. I'm not justifying my grandfather's actions in any way. I think it shows how poorly they treated their prisoners.
This video has some serious problems with the audio - particularly the narration. The narration starts out normally then becomes so loud that it pins the my metering. Then it has an echo. I'm not complaining. Obviously, a fair amount of effort went towards the production of this video. It deserves competent audio production to match the rest of the great work done here.
The production quality of this video is just lazy. I can't watch this. At 03:47 and 04:13, you've got a double voice track. At 03:31, the audio track is significantly louder. At 05:02, it is significantly quieter. And at 08:09, having ripped a long section from a BBC production, you try to mask this by putting an AI filter over a public domain picture instead of just downloading the it yourself. You are blatantly just ripping off someone else's presentation and voicing over it yourself in this section. I stopped watching there, but wouldn't be surprised if there are other giveaways.
It is amazing for me to notice that a typical Mussolini is now creating havoc in Ethiopia. His name is PM Abiy Ahmed. For a thoughtful analyst, all the behaviors , actions and system of rule of Abiy Ahmed are typical of Mussolini. As Devil was renamed "Old Nick" after Nicholas Machiavelli, by the same token, Mussoloni should be renamed as "Old Abiy Ahmed ".
"Not only should Tunisia have exploded the myth of Hitler's military acumen, it should have discredited the idea that Germans fought better than the Italians, since Messe's 1st Italian Army held out longer than Arnim's 5th German Army and the DAK, even both groups had about six divisions and faced roughly equal Anglo-American forces. Indeed, Hermann Goring division was the first to be scattered on 7 May, DAK the next to break and surrender on 9 May, with the Italian Spezia division closing the gap created by the German collapse and watching still combat-efficient German units march off into captivity on 11 May. Whether it is significant that the German 90th Light division was the first to collapse in Messe's 'Italian' Army, there is no doubt that the Italians fought well and held out longest in Tunisia." (The Second World War: The German War 1939-1942, Jeremy Black, Page 265, Ashgate, 2007)” AND...MUCH MORE
Rommel was a “genius” thanks only to the Italians: “At that point, of course, the situation changed considerably and Rommel has gone down in history as one of the greatest military leaders of all time for his stunning victories over the British in north Africa.. What many fail to realize though is that the forces effectively under his command, which he used to win these masterful successes, were 2/3 Italian and the large majority of his armored forces were Italian tanks.” “The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.” _Rommel And Italian intelligence and bravery: NOTE: This video has since been removed due to copyright infringement. It showed how Italian Intelligence Services penetrated British Intelligence and relayed British fighting positions to Rommel, hence why he seemed to know their every move.@@merseybeast76
Remember, Hitler was allied with Stalinist Russia until he got greedy and violated their agreement. Interesting how out of 3 Socialist oriented countries with iron fisted control of their country and industry, two are labeled as right wing in spite of their left wing principles.
@DaveTex2375 Perhaps the commonality is that they were narcissistic psychopaths who created private armies in weak and unstable countries which they then used to take control through violence and intimidation. Before demanding that the general public be loyal to the State for the State knows what is best. Removing all unions, opposition political parties and desenting groups and individuals and substituting themselves for the State. I think dictators always aline together (they have a lot in common) and you are spot on Hitler got greedy like Napoleon before him. Let's all be grateful he did 😊
@@DaveTex2375well in some ways they were right wing. At least the Nazis were. Nazi Germany was essentially antagonistic towards any cultural change - looking to even revert to a past time that never existed. That’s a conservative mindset not a liberal one. Ultra nationalism is also generally associated with the right wing. The Soviet Union was not quite the same in this regard. It did not hold onto the past and elevate its virtue. It readily poured women into the workforce during world war 2 and even allowed women to fight in combat roles. They were not exactly resistant to cultural change. Nazi Germany wasn’t libertarian though that’s for sure. The party rightly had socialist in its name.
macho bullies are macho bullies no matter where you go. Discern the aphorisms behind their beliefs instead of remaining on the literal level where things appear different. The divine simplicity of it all.
@Singed88 Embracing cultural heritage isn't exclusively right wing. Also, some try to label them right wing because they allowed private ownership but fail to see how they imposed a high degree of government control over industry, making it so ownership and management were not truly in control of their business and more like management for the government. Very socialistic.
this whole video describing italy's atrocities really puts germany's atrocities into perspective when you consider italy was the more "moderate" of the two
@@Doge811Oh yes, the legendary Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Hungarian and Romanian colonies in Africa and India. Your comment is so stupid i can't tell if you're joking or not. Basically half of Europe had nothing to do with colonialism.
I was in northern Italy in 2018 and went to a flea-market in northern Italy. I was rather shocked at the amount of Mussolini memorabilia on sale there.
That's normal there! It's totally legal! People are running around in SS and fascist uniforms without any problems! Monuments all over Italy, Open visible fascist symbols and never proper explanation of facism in school. racism everywhere! Some regions are more neo-fascist than others... but a lot of Italians are racist! It's like they are proud about their history and don't educate the new generation how bad fascism was!
@@a.f.7246 Also my great grandma lived under Mussolini. Her mother died of starvation, her husband was deported to a concentration camp and my other great grandma was deported because she was Jewish. Nothing to complain
Italy conquered 5 countries, was awarded the territory they won in France, and won the Spanish civil war vs. the Communist. Aside from Russia and Germany no other European country performed better, or stated another way, Italy was the 3rd best performing European country of the war. An Empire larger than Germany's.
Mussolini was arrested by an italian partisan group leader known as "colonel Valerio" who had identified him as he was making his way to the swiss border. The "Duce"and his mistress Clara Petacci were both gunned down by Valerio in 1945 . As Mussolini was in his sixty-second year at the time of his execution the year of his birth is 1883 unmistakebly !!!
My grandfather was born and raised in Sicily he was a veteran of WW1 he served in the Italian Navy, when Mussolini came into power he immigrated to America with my grandmother, I remember watching a documentary on WW2 and when Mussolini was shown he started cursing, he said he was the reason he left Sicily , he considered him a fool and an idiot and he was right lol
Pretty sure Mussolini's descendants are still in Italian politics. After a quick Google search, they are. Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, his great grandson, ran for the right side of the political party. Alessandra Mussolini, his granddaughter, is currently a politician. She currently serves as a Member of the European Parliament for Forza Italia. I just copy pasted that part, but you get the point, she's a politician lol.
Higher taxes for unmarried people, that is something the Trump campaign in the US has also talked about. They are unfortunately influenced by fascism in many ways.
Do to have actual evidence of this? Closest thing i seen was an OPINION piece on the site "the hill" but they also lacked actual evidence of said claim.
I am a 58 year old American. I think that the words right wing and left wing don't mean or are described differently in 🇺🇸 and Europe. Having said that, in my bias, i think that fascism can come from both the left or the right. It's about being how authoritarian the central government becomes.
Both Mussolini and Hitler were avowed socialists. They don’t easily fit into the left/right dichotomy. Their totalitarian dictatorships rival the likes of Stalin and Mao, two other avowed socialists, regarding the ruthless brutality of their regimes.
@@moonlightpegasusthat’s because totalitarianism policies intertwined with their economic/political affiliations. one thing all these rulers had in common was totalitarianism stemmed from facist roots. a pure socialist is only connected to an economic system standpoint
Yes fascism is basically a blend of left and right, the main distinction is that right wing fascism tends to grow economies and left wing fascism totally destroys economies
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Most people know about the brutality of Hitler’a Germany and Hirohito’s Japan but few know the brutality of Mussolini’s Italy. People know Mussolini as the guy who allied with Germany and the guy who’s army was such a joke and extremely incompetent. So Mussolini has been seen primarily as a clown in history and it makes it easy for us to forget how evil Mussolini was. So thank you for the video.
Saying than i'm not fascist, but Mussolini was not so brutal as people believe it was. Hitler and Hirohito was far more brutal than him. Actually Mussolini was well respected by Churchill for example, where there's historical evidence that Churchill was considering Mussolini as one of the greatest Politicians of Europe, even admiring him....until the WWII begun.
So where is the truth, honestly? He was a well respected Politician as Churchill said or it was a Monster?
To judge someone people should study in depth all the pre and post war historical documents.
So true!
Good commentary. Thank you.
@@solinvictus1234 Tojo you mean, Hirohito is just a yesman when it comes to these atrocities, but Tojo is directly involved in all. He said "hirohito's Japan", not the Emperor is the mastermind of it all, no, those were his Generals. The Japanese Army and Navy were in a powerstruggle, with the Army having more Fascist ambitions as the Navy focus more on stability. The Army and the Navy even fought each other a few times in Japanese infightings. and it's the Army that is most if not every Japanese War Crime.
@@solinvictus1234 your argument holds no water. Mussolini was respected pre war and therefore he couldn't have committed heinous crimes? Hitler was respected pre war too lmfao. I understand what you are getting at but that was a terrible example
Mussolini’s body wasn’t “dumped,” he was shot, along with his girlfriend, and their bodies were hanged from a metal girder above a service station.
There are photos of Mussolini, and his girlfriend, Claretta Petacci, hanging, so they just weren’t “dumped.”
Saw the photos! I read the people threw stones and other objects at the bodies!
@@gwendolynmurray8201 I did too. He didn’t even look like Mussolini at the end. I’ve got relatives still living in Italy, and you can’t even say his name without having people spit on the ground cursing the day he was born.
@@toniremer1594 then why are his direct descendants still in politics? And why do his political descendants have positions of power? Like Meloni?
Simplistic solutions always appeal in difficult times. Whether it’s communism or fascism.
@@TesterAnimal1 Those are phenomenally great questions, which I’ll try to answer them.
Mussolini’s descendants may not be an ounce like him, which could very well be the reason why they’re in several governmental positions. Mussolini was Hitler’s puppet, and he had done everything that Hitler demanded that he do. The people of Italy hated Mussolini, and, in some parts of Italy and in some families, you can’t even say his name without someone spitting on the ground, and cursing the day he was born.
@@toniremer1594 lies for weak, that's not even true !
My friend was marched from his home at the point of bayonet.
His friend fell down in the march. He he helped him. A soldier told him to leave the fallen man be and keep marching. My friend punched the soldier. The soldier slammed the butt of his rifle on my friends face. My friend went down. The soldier bayonetted him on the ground.
The rifle butt didn't just know out his teeth, it knocked out all the bone below his nose.
The soldiers left my friend for dead. Friendly townspeople took my friend in, nursed him back to health.
This guy was really old when I met him. He would show his missing cartilage under his nose
and pull up his shirt to show the bayonet scar to anyone, anyplace.
He concluded his story by saying:
" Lousy fascists!"
This was 1987. He looked so worn out but he was a tough old dude who was still bitter about the incident.
Nice fairy tale
@lepersonnage371
Haha. I saw the scar, keyboard warrior.
I'm a boomer, our parents and grandparents saw the real thing happen. Our grandparents came over on a boat, English was a 2nd language. They fought real not zees, real japs, they got shot at saw their friends killed. They didn't play video games and see war in movies with cgi.
"Lousy fascists"
Did he tell you what spurned them on? I am sure he was just eating ice cream on a bus stop bench not hurting anybody when the boogiemen fascies came and got him.
What else did he leave out of his story?
....yeah, I'm sure the socialists would have been kind and generous 😅
@lepersonnage371
I'm a boomer, our parents generation grew up in the depression and fought in WWII. They talked about the depression, WWII, not much, but everyone knew they had seen some things and done them too.
Many of our grandparents were born in another country and came to the USA on a boat. They had nothing but a suitcase or steamer reunk. English was a language they had to learn after they got here.
I heard a guy on TV, it might have been Jim Gaffagan, who commented how boring the old people are going to be once the young people of today grow up.
I think Jim was referencing people like you.
That you dismiss my story as a fairy tale tells me you might you might be one of this young generation and have lived a sheltered, vanilla life with no real challenges or danger.
"Grandpa, tell us about when you got your Xbox"
My grandfather who lived in Italy from birth to just after the war told me; In those years prior to Mussolini, Casa Nostra ran Italy. Government officials were terrified to go against or prosecute them. The Sicilian Mafia was the word. Crime was everywhere, small businesses shaken down, even churches had to pay tribute to the mafia dons in the regions. Criminal activity was just a part of life you had to live with. Thugs would walk into a home, take whatever they wanted, they raped women, committed violence, it was hell on earth. Once Mussolini secured power he eradicated organized crime in Italy. Brutal public executions of once untouchable mafia king pins were an everyday occurrence. Shops and small businesses thrived. Within 2 years you could leave your house doors unlocked all day, no one would dare try and rob. Because if caught, they would be immediately shot or hanged. As much as most Italians didn't care for a fascist dictator, there was some good that came out of his reign. Even Hitler was amazed at the almost total lack of crime in Italy's cities...Rome, Naples, Palermo.
Thank you for this information.
Appreciate this information.... It proves there are always many sides to every story. Thanks for sharing. Interesting that he spared the biggest aria of ALL... The Vatican Elite Baby rapist .... & millennia old genocidal maniac were his friends
“ COSA NOSTRA “ ( our business) - not “casa nostra”( our house)
@@melaniabettarelli8619 please please please forgive my typo i will never do it again i promise
@@bluestarindustrialarts7712 LMFAO ...Good for you!!!! 👍👍👍 Now that's how you respond to some BULL SH@T!!! BTW, GRRREAT STORY!
Mussolini was very popular in Italy at first. He brought social reform and would not let the rich abuse the poor. The mood of the Italians switched when he threw in with Adolf.
An Italian told me when he was living in Italy, his family hid his cousin in their house. In the town she was in she had a German boyfriend when it was under German control and came under American control. She took off because she knew the town's people would want to even the score with her for having a German boyfriend. She stayed with the guy's family for a couple of weeks. She was smuggled into Switzerland to other relatives. Her uncle was a printer and he forged papers for her, so she could immigrate to the US.
Yes, partisans were known to cut those women's hair, beat them and force them to drink strong laxatives and/or outright killer them. She did well to escape.
Yeah there was a good reason why that traitor cousin was marked for death. Her boyfriend German soldier along with the other German military were responsible for the murder and torture of thousands of partisan Italians and sending Italian Jews to Auschwitz. She was complicit.
That’s a great story & shows the complexity that is lost on the subject of WW2 today. Fascism didn’t come out of a vacuum. It was a response to deep & aggressive divisions against Marxism/Bolshevism/communism. Ppl today don’t mention that some of the French Resistance & especially Italian Partisans were communists who had to flee or hide because they’d be rounded up & incarcerated or shot. The Nazis were well funded & supported throughout the mid to late 1930s by very wealthy ppl & companies & even some royalty because they were scared to death that they’d meet the fate of the Romanovs & upper classes in the Soviet Union if communism spread. In the meantime, communism became very popular amongst the poor & intellectuals all over the world as the economies suffered in the 1920s & 30s. As sentiments spread there was violence & reprisals. There was Civil War in Spain.
Franco prevailed & also established his version of a Fascist govt. Some said they’d rather be nationalist or live under a fascist govt than a communist govt. Maybe we don’t even know where we would’ve stood if alive at that time but by the 1930s many were aware that millions had been killed in the Soviet system & how it had destroyed churches & killed clergy.
Of course there was much evil perpetrated by fascists including genocide. Both sides killed millions of innocents, sometimes simply for their ethnicity. I
In my opinion, there needs to be more knowledge about events like you described with the Italian family. If ppl understood how divisions in society eventually led to unthinkable violence & murder in history so recent then perhaps they would take steps to ensure that it can never be repeated in a world that seems ever closer to large scale warfare today.
@@r.williamcomm7693I read your whole comment and I agree with everything bro. The part that stuck out to me was at the end when you mentioned this history being so recent. I’ve literally been around people who know nothing about ww2 and think that it happened during medieval times or something lol. Also not realizing that 1945 was barely 80 years ago. People are insane but hopefully future generations take an interest in learning the history of this world.
@@PimpNamedSlickBack1_ Agree 100%.
Ok, your point about Hitler overshadowing Mussolini is well taken. I am in my 50s and I am only now really studying the history of Italy, and understanding how what happened there impacted the larger geopolitical world. Your explanation of how Franco's rise in Spain served as a training ground for Italian and German fascism is also well-taken. None of that is taught in schools in the U.S.
lol why should it be?
I am an American World History teacher specializing in early 20th century world conflicts to 1953. I teach everything from European royal inter-marraige, Imperialism, how the unsatisfactory conclusion of WWI brought about WWII, that the Spanish Civil War was a training ground for WWII participants in Europe, and the Armenian genocide that was so effectively referenced by Hitler (and almost unknown by most students today.) I especially enjoyed this unflinching video's description of Italian colonialism in Africa and the Catholic Church collusion with the Italian (and later Nazi) fascists. Unfortunately, the only people who allow me to teach this history are the parents of my private students. i was told in no uncertain terms that there wasn't room for such in-depth subject matter in "common core curriculum" in the states in which I've taught for the past 18 years.
@@amymontgomery5835 You're teaching wrongly. Spanish Civil War was not a mini II WW, it had a different background but some links to it. It was a monarchic-conservative-fascist coalition against three different disunited forces: communists, libertarians and anarchists. Communists were the strongest and fought against monarchic-conservative-fascist coalition and fought against libertarians and anarchists as well.
It was covered in West. Civ. in both HS & college in Texas.
We learned it in Tennessee of all places in the 80s. In a cow town. Funny, when I was still on Facebook 8-9 years ago, I would see comments like this from time to time from my former classmates. I could not resist reminding them that they never actually paid attention in class to begin with, never read a chapter they weren’t required to read, and were not intellectually curious. At all. They were really mad at me after that. 😢
I was in the El Alamein War Museum recently in Egypt obviously. And each country has its own gallery. The Brit/Allied wing and the German wing both are filled with impressive hardware---tanks, machine guns, scout cars, etc. etc. The Italian wing, however, is dominated by --you guessed it---stylish uniforms. If the war had been between fashion houses and not armies the Italians would have won hands down.
Too bad that display never mentioned how the Allies of WW1 Which the Italians fought and won with them got screwed by those same allies and left Italy poor while the rest, England, France and the USA enjoyed the spoils of war but left Italy out of it while they lost lives fighting on their side. Italy was never a industrial powerhouse and YES, Mussolini was no better at waging war and the little painter from Austria. But if you dig deeper in the real history, you will realize, Mussolini was back stabbed by those same allies and had to ally himself with Germany, after he warned Hitler to keep his paws off Austria.
I don't like the SS uniforms, and the Italian ones (under fascism) were even worse looking. Goofy f@cks
Red Army uniforms...now we're talking. Especially, NKVD
@Jered Lyon it wasn't anscluss that caused Britain and France to declare war on Nazi Germany (should've been) but it wasn't...the invasion of Poland was what did
Ps: Mussolini was in bed with Hitler. He wasn't forced to do so. Italy joined Germany in aiding the fascists during Spain's civil war. That's REAL history
A fatal flaw of ‘fascism’ - primarily a concern with bizarre hats and, err, feathers. The same thing happened in China
@@johnnyscifi Look, I never agreed or backed any Nazis or Fascists. The last thing I will ever be is a socialist and both of these regimes were the result of extreme socialism. But for someone to defend what France and England were doing to the rest of the world, prior to WW2 was NOT doling out freedom either. For someone accusing Mussolini for being a tyrant for invading Ethiopia and how the British came in to help to save them, to me, sound IRONIC. This is the same country that boasted how the sun never sets in the English union jack. I am sure all of those British colonies didn't invite the Brits to subjugate them and use up their natural resources, with open arms. The only thing you can blame Mussolini for was, him trying to get a piece of the pie after England and France got all the best pieces and all was left was a few crumbs, like Ethiopia. And he never got credit for ending slavery there,
BTW, do you know why the USA got involved in Vi-et-Nam? Ever hear of French-Indo-China? Why we went to war against Ho-Chi-Man who we supported to fight the Japanese during WW2? To bail out the French, who were still there as colonials. You wanna count the lives lost under Hitler, Mussolini, Hiro, Stalin all you want. First, start with ENGLAND and the Revolutionary war of the American colonies!
Moral of the story: Good men who ignore the troubled child in the village will suffer a tyrannical king tomorrow.
@@MartineReed as we are experiencing under Biden and democrat censorship as they worship criminals and punish the Samaritans defending themselves and destroy the lives of those that oppose them to the tune of billions of dollars in damages in 2020 summer of love alone.
@@MartineReed on the contrary. TRUMP is the good man. The village is the bad place. He build and helped the contry more and thats measurable now... then obama and biden
@@steffennielsen5942 Trump is a narcissistic and compulsory liar.
Moral of the story, socialism always ends in tyranny, death and suffering
"In 1914 WW1 broke out over Europe"
Uses footage from WW2.
Ww1 footages are scarce due to them being lost. So its reasonable.
@@sleyking123 Not remotely true, Theres 100's of hours of WW1 "footages".
Peter Jackson released a whole movie compiled entirely of restored WW1 footage.
What is it with wounded Corporals from WW1 becoming evil dictators 20 years later…..
Must be something in their enemies ammunition 🤔
Don't forget Napoleon - he was another Corporal with a monster chip on his shoulder!
E-4 Mafia
The angriest loners almost always spring from an embittered ex member of a B team.
Mussolini was actually a British agent in WW1. He was paid 100 pounds per week (big money) to promote British interests... and you know what they say, once an agent, always an agent.
I watched a video of modern US and Italian forces comparing their MREs. The Americans had squeeze cheese and crackers, the Italians legit had a 3 course meal and their own little stove to cook it on. Some things never change.
You forgotta the chefs-ah hat!
Yes and the Italian MRE's were also unnecessarily big, didn't contain anything to drink like the U.S. Rations, and the Americans had a simple system to heat their food, also the Italian MRE takes to long to cook
Actually I was surprised with how better the U.S. Military is better in almost every aspect compared to our adversaries and even Allies! Rather that's as simple as something as a M.R.E. or something more complex as armored vehicles in comparison to the rag tag, cheaply built Russian Vehicles you see in the Ukrainian War, I just totally underestimated the grand and might of the American Military!
I like cheese and crackers!
What does that have anything to do with the video
@@deuser The Italian Army is more interested in comforts and pomp than actually fighting.
I like the episode of "The Office" when Jim tricks Dwight into reading a Mussolini speech at that sales award ceremony.
That wasnt mussolini
Americans have only watched one show and that's it
@@MrLachapell stfu we watch the wire and jeopardy too
@@MrLachapell Dude, are you seriously making that claim? That is so ridiculous it's laughable, you must've never actually met any single American person to think that. I don't even watch television that much at all and can list a dozen popular shows on various platforms Americans not only watch but like better than that particular show.
@@HenryKrinkle358quit your crying little boy nobody cares
One thing not mentioned about ethiopia was different ethnic groups responded differently to the presence of italians. What is aretreya and the tegrayan areas were actually very pro italian and anti emperor because these areas were often subjugated by the emperor so depending on the area of ethiopia the italians were welcome and its part of the reason the italians had an easy time landong on the shores. The groups along the coastline were actually pro italian in most areas. This isnt saying the italian intentions were good but the choice of ethiopia had many details that were considered including the very pro christian ethiopian elements of these coastal groups with a closer attachment to the roman empire then other ethnic groups. This made this area of africa one of the easiest for moussilini to start with. There was very intense christian vs islamic fights between sthnic groups so some preferred the christian european countries over other african groups. Ethiopia was much more culturally isolated and easier to establish diplomatic relations with.
I presume you're not alluding to Mussolini being a hero to them, just that some used religious beliefs to align with a decidedly monstrous character that did NO favors to Ethiopia in the long run. Wilbur Smith has a few pretty good historical novels about this conflict.
@@justaguy6100 no, not a hero. More how the choice and relationship started. As he mentions in the video Ethiopia was never a part of European colonization. Ethiopia is also a very old Christian country (the 2nd oldest actually). It is culturally distinct. There was more opportunity for European influences rebel groups due to the culturally distinct character of costal Ethiopians. The italians actually did construct a large amount of infrastructure but most of it never reached completion because the itialians underestimated the difficulty of building through the high land mountains of northern Ethiopia. The tried to make rail systems (mostly to expand resources transport up towards Greece) but failed. As a result there was some decent ports constructed and starting transport systems that were useful to the local population but not to the italians (which caused them to leave Ethiopia as the war started to go against the axis powers). The result was a failed attempt at resource extraction. The infrastructure actually was very useful to northern Ethiopians but that isn't to saybthat was the intent of the italians at the time. The real goal wasn't accomplished and the results were incidentally beneficial to specifically northern ethiopians.
@@ajmaynard92 africa needs the white men to build a city or else if would be mud huts etc
What, wtf are you talking about? Yes Eritrea was anti mainland Ethiopia but where did you get that they had ''very pro Christian elements" there? Eritrea is right now and was back then Muslim in majority, and majority of reasons for why they disliked being part of Ethiopia was that Ethiopia was ruled by and for Christians (ironically, excommunicated ones officially, due to their beliefs of Christ being an ocean of Godliness and a drop of man, while Christians in Europe switched it the other way around).
@@ajmaynard92😮 I am am I am I 😮am I
A peacock with a very thin skin. I learned about Mussolini in High School and he is a fascinating character. A great many faults an ego the size of Jupiter.
tRump .
@@robertclark972 True
@@robertclark972rent free
@@robertclark972 Did you honestly just compare Mussolini the fascist dictator and direct ally to Hitler, to Trump? Good lord, the Trump derangement syndrome never ends with you people. You jump at shadows, you imagine that he's this evil mastermind dictator one second than the biggest idiot the next, but whatever it is you are told to think about him by the media at any given time, it fills you with fear and hatred, it's laughable that you do that. Pathetic really. I for one came here to learn about Mussolini, and somehow you see someone from another century with a completely different ideology who did things completely differently, and it's still Trump. You might as well say that I remind you of Trump, the comparison is that thin lol. You guys are always good for a laugh, thanks!
Obama!
My Italian grandfather turns 100 this year, and while he may not be pro-Mussolini, he still says things like "at least the trains were on time"
He wouldn't say that if he was tortured by his idol 😅
He said he is not pro Mussolini @@Death88758
@@Death88758 he only tortured mobsters
I remember one of my HS teachers saying that his grandma used to do the Roman salut out of habit, despite her being against Mussolini, it's insane to think just how much he traumatized the generation that he took over.
@@fredrezfield1629no he didnt he hurt villagers and made them have clans and many left too america and brought back organized crime 😂💀
What I find quite disturbing is, if you watch film of him in action, he looks like a comic character. With the faces he pulls etc. and yet, he's a ruthless dictator!
actually quite the party favor
I had the same thought when I saw him making a speech at the start of this video
Have you watched some of the characters in US politics lately? Same comic opera
Remind you of anyone?
@@Onequietvoice the Bidet-Cameltoe Administration is more incompetent and corrupt.
Studying dangerous men of history is so important! Thank you for this video
oh yes there are plenty of evil people in Europe. Evil and sinister garbage
Did you studied british EMPIRE kings and prime ministers? Did you know any scumbags more dangerous as those, or some which started more INVASIONS all around the world?!
Study George W. Bush, and Woodrow Wilson
No one is learning.
@@jerryrichards8172 Agree.
We’re in our 70’s. My wife’s grandparents immigrated from Sicily about 1910 coming to St. Louis. They left because of all the problems in Italy and no jobs or limited food supply. They were farmers, and were able to buy a small farm. They became very successful and fairly prosperous later in their lifetime
USA: “Are you two friends?”
Germany: “No!”
Italy: “Yes!”
It's exactly the opposite, Italians loathed the Nazis, and they dragged Italy into the War, not the opposite.
@@giulianoilfilosofo7927 *cough* bullshit *cough* Ethiopia. Greece. Benito was way ahead.
😂 best three line TL;DR ever.
Italians - unreliable allies 😄😄
@@chetzdunchien when?
I spent a lot of my early years in Ethiopia, and they are very proud of people, especially since they were the only country to fight back the colonizers successfully. It's something more people should be aware of, I'm glad you made this video
This is not an accurate statement, Ireland was colonised for 450 years by the British, it became a free state in 1921 and totally independent in 1949. It was the first country to do so.
@@mariangrimsdell1112 Oh wow! That's really informative. I appreciate someone taking the time to put up the accurate information. 🧡 From Australia (where we are still part of the damn 'British Commonwealth'). It's an insult to the Aboriginal population to say the least. & Anyone who has Scottish, Irish, Welsh or came from severe poverty in England back when Australia was 'settled' - were dragged here in chains. It's an embarrassing sito all round. I am really glad for Ethiopia. ✌️
@@JHjh88 glad you found this information interesting, unfortunately history is a complicated mess because usually the ones using violence get to control and write the history books, there are political agendas being controlled by faceless people in many countries, there are political organisations being financed by private corporations for their own interests , the average person is usually clueless about the reality of their existence. An example of this is the polarisation of society in the US, the Black Lives Matter movement definitely have grievances, but blaming whites for their situation is not entirely accurate, 2,000 years ago it was mainly whites that were enslaved under the Roman system, this disgusting practice was passed down to the Ottoman Empire who continued to capture white and other slaves along the Barbary coast of North Africa, by the time the Industrial 🏭 revolution was under way the British first used to capture Irish people and send them as slaves to the new colonies in America, they used to constantly run away and mix with the local population, then they started capturing black people from West Africa to bring to the cotton and sugar plantations in the Caribbean and New Orleans etc.
Pakistan/India gained independence from colonisers August 1947.
And like that’s worked out so well😂😂😂
Born in 1883, not 1893
Thank you. I went back and checked myself as the timeline wasn’t checking out for a ten year old…
repent to God
@@Baggerz182 no
He also had a vision of reviving the Roman Empire, and that led to brutal campaigns in places like Ethiopia and Libya, where he tried to assert dominance. The impact on these nations was catastrophic: violence, forced relocations, and cultural erasure. It was a tragic time where ambition turned into oppression.
Ok, nerd
I know it’s a minor nitpick issue, but showing ww2 war footage for the Italian war of 1911 and WW1 is very misleading. No armored personnel carriers, no tanks, no planes dropping bombs. That’s WW2. WW1 was artillery and trench warfare mostly. It wasn’t until late in the war were there tanks and such things. I know you are just showing stock war footage, but the war in which you are referring absolutely has footage for it. I apologize for being picky. Just would like to note that
The irony of the Axis is that in Hitler's view, the Italians were the second-worst-ranked Western Europeans. Only the French were worse, while the British were second only to the Germans. And yet, his allies were French and Italians but never British
Nope. He admired Italy for its beauty and for initiating the renaissance, which he saw as the cultural rebirth of Aryan man, and the fascist movement of Italy was the inspiration for his nazi movement as well.
@@heruy8274 the Nazi party existed around Mussolini's. What inspired Hitler was the March on Rome but Hitler's attempt in Munich was a disastrous failure.
British and German were allied up until he won Person of the Yea. Then Hitler showed who he really was.
Hitler adopted the salute which was originally Roman.
@@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521 the Duce did it first, I think
I enjoy being informed, but technical advice: check your audio. It gets quiet, then loud and even echoes at times for no reason
I know something you never hear about Italy in WW2. My great uncle served there when he was 18. The people were starving. Children often approached troops to beg for food. So the Italians started strapping bombs to them to blow up foreign soldiers. American troops were ordered to shoot anyone that approached their lines. My uncle was sent home on leave for two weeks and did nothing but sit by the window and cry. He was then sent to France where he was killed by friendly fire at 19 years of age. Italy made the end of his life a living hell.
Sounds like stuff they came up with to excuse the numerous war crimes the allies committed over here.
If you believe that, I have a couple WMDs to sell you.
Really makes you remember the quote "War is Hell"
Thank you for sharing this.
Sad thing and I’m sorry, my Dad was a GI and fought in many battles there, he had terrible nightmares until he died at 74
My grandfather was under gen patton. He told me stories about how the citizens of Italy were then... it was horrible
Your audio levels are all over the place in this one. Absolutely love your videos though no matter. ♥️
duck pic spotted
Soon as I read this the audio started messing up.
The wish of the people to be ruled by a strong arm always backfires against the very same people who wanted the ruler to be "strict but just". The answer is never one person or strictness of the law. It's the functioning of democratic institutions and the working checks and balances.
Checks? Balances? EU Olaf reports father carried a luggage full of cash. Lobby money. The sin of Eva. Corruption level as in the rest of the world. What theater opens after Ucraina? Most EU are nuclear non have. The spirit of Troubadix. Damage in Ucraina € 3 Trillion. Who pays? Meloni is very brave. Ucrainian and Russian are dying by the 100,000. West Europeans are gaming.
I can't be the only one who thought Mussolini looked like a jackass
I've never understood how he was taken seriously, he acts like he's auditioning for a Jim Carey style comedy or he's practicing his sell face for the WWE.
@@Marauder99991 the must've copied him
You’re def one of those girls that thinks men aren’t allowed to judge girls on their looks and weight, but at the same time you judge men with how they look.
@@malcomx1924 I mean, you do realise it's Mussolini they are talking about
@@malcomx1924 You're def one of those dudes who judges people on one comment and then gets all butt hurt when people point out how presumptuous and ignorant it is.
Quite enjoyable content! Smaller creators like you need to be supported. And nice to see no ads like on most bigger channels. I wish your channel well and that it grows and you get a good following
Great video, audio is all over the place though :/
Faascist forces were able to _march_ through to Addis Ababa and keep it until 1941; however they were unable to extend the occupation to the rest of Ethiopia.
Benito Mussolini was born on the 29th of July 1883, not 1893. And it's called the "Biennio Rosso", not "Bidennio Rosso". Just these mistakes, the rest of the video is perfect, as always.
The second name made me think of Biden 🙄
Not perfect. One extremely important fact: Mussolini was actually a British agent. It was recently discovered he was paid 100 pounds per week during WW1 to promote British interests
But at the end of the day, Mussolini's reign crumbled. When the going got tough, he couldn’t hold on to power. It’s a reminder that those who rule through fear and manipulation never truly conquer the hearts of the people. Leadership is about more than authority; it’s about responsibility.
@PoisonelleMisty4311 Okay? I absolutely agree with you, but I can't see the correlation between your affirmation and my correction.
“Blood alone moves the wheels of history” - Dwight Schrute
As a boy I recall the overtly dramatic reaction of an Elder Italian Gentle, when someone mentioned this innately Fascist 🇮🇹 Dictator’s name., he started tearing @ his clothes…
Years later., I finally understood his reaction 🌻 31:33
Great story…
Video needs work though.
Duplicate audio in parts, along with no sound mapping leading to quiet parts of dialogue.
Keep at it! Good work 🫡
Though, Mussolini didn’t align with Hitler until he thought Hitler was definitely going to win..
Mussolini held a Military Parade to impress his Countrymen, he had his fascists close off part of the City and arranged the crowd so that only one set length of road could be seen, so, as the Parade of equipment and arms passed, the lead vehicles had been instructed to quickly drive around out of sight and then join up with the end vehicles in the Parade, this ofcourse gave the impression that he had many more vehicles and much more equipment than he actually had...
So glad that modern day Russia continues this proud tradition 🤣
He was a grifter but very good at it
Sounds like the Italian auto industry took a page out of his play book. I’m looking at you Lancia.
@@kevinW826 does your country make anything?
Yes they just kept marching around in circles 😂 I think the north Koreans do that too.
This as a complete lack of period context,in Europe & America post WW1 thugs & police viciously beat union strikers at Ford, also during the General strike in Britain. Governments fought openly in the streets against Social & Communist groups many far more violently than in Italy! Also this skips complex events of the 1930's Britain supported Italy with gold shipments in the period, then the hypocracy of former Imperial Allies of WW1who controlled themselves 90% of Africa, who imposed sanctions on Italy for the attack on Ethiopia, which pushed Italy into the alliance with Nazi Germany! Giving Germany the confidence to help Franco in Spian, although there was racial laws in Italy from 1938, they in no way could be compared to Germany and Jews were not deported until after the collapse of the Italian government in late 1943, niether were they deported from territories controlled by the Italians prior to the German occupation. This fails greatly in educating people of the complex subject of fascist Italy and Mussolini!
If I were a High school history teacher. I wouldn't have a problem playing this video for my class. 👍
video has a clear hard bias
There are several states where it would hit just a bit too close to home, and you'd be fired.
I would, this is superficial trash.
When I was in college I had a professor show us videos of the Taliban going into cities and destroying churches and temples of other religions. This was before 911 and he warned us of extremist groups and compared them to the Nazis and other fascists.
Florida would probably arrest you. They love their fascist.
Very informative and entertaining video, although the sound issues were extremely distracting
was looking for this to confirm i'm not crazy and hearing things
Clips for eejits! 😁
What's up with your audio? It's all over the place. Sometimes I can hear you twice, sometimes loud and sometimes quite.
He must have done some very nasty things to his own people , because he was given a brutal death by them in the end . His troubled youth should have been an indication that he was trouble .
firing squad is pretty tame by historical standards
Οχι μόνο στους δικούς του ανθρώπους. Μας έκανε πόλεμο, πέθανα πολύ άνθρωποι. Καταστροφή 😢😢
9 times out of 10, a child's upbringing determines their decisions and way of life into adulthood.
However, it is very lazy and immature to use your upbringing as an excuse to why you never change and grow from mistakes made. Nobody's upbringing is perfect, but what you learn from it and can grow from is everything.
westerners aren't very good at looking at people, they never look at cause and only looks at what's happening right now. Why do you think self defense, reactions are punished over the perpetrators? Action, not cause and intention, literally minded simpletons. Funny thing too, western scholars recognize that their people have lower levels empathy, poorer intuition, and lower emotional complexity so they can't perceive as holistically. Which leads to a lot of energy to act, high fervor stupidity unlike relatively peaceful east asians.
@duckynado8781 Grazie!
The production quality & substance of this channel is outstanding
As I scrolled down to see if anybody mentioned the glaring audio issues.
@@pretary1845 Same! They're so obviously terrible that they must be intentional to try and drive engagement but it just makes me want to click off the video.
@@pretary1845 Me too. I thought my earbuds where failing.
He also pushed the idea of Italian supremacy, aiming to erase local culture. It was all about promoting Italian settlers in Libya, pushing locals to the margins. They imposed policies that were designed to assimilate the people into Italian culture, disregarding their heritage and history in the process. That type of cultural erasure is really hard for a community to bear.
"In 1914 the first world war breaks out" *proceeds to show footage purely from ww2*
a new Roman Empire 16:20 ...meanwhile, even Romans that only have a bit of ethnicity...have to fear Italy's seemingly permanent enmity
If you go to Rome you can still see where Mussolini gave his speeches. It's near the Roman forum. The building that was once the headquarters of the black shirts is right beside it.
Those we fought to save are turning out to be not much different than those we saved them from...
Who’s we?
You American?
That's correct. That's because it's the same powers behind it all.
🤡
Is this referring to fascism still having a surprisingly large hold in Italy?
Its insane to me how despite Italian fasism being the biggest faliure of the war, so many Italians still love him
The only thing that failed here is your grammar education, the Italians were just in bad economic condition back then so they couldn't do much
The trains ran on time
My husband. Lived u need Mussolini. U could own one gun
He had nothing bad to say
.my husband was from Sicily. U could leave yr doors unlocked & no one stole anything. He had nothing bad to say about Mussolini
@@a.f.7246 and there's no freedom or individualism, the government can enter your bedroom which is a violation of Right-Wing Libertarianism
Also old people only remember the good times and never the bad things
Great video. I actually learned a few things, which cant be said about most videos about this period of history.
Really, boy do you need a better education if this enlightened you 😂
@@DaveSCameron Is that meant as a joke or are you must rude?
My father served in Italy in WW2 and said he remembered see Mussolini hanging from the lamp post
There were 12 people hanging from a girder in Milan including Claudia Petacci.
Italians are still in shame about that. It was not mentioned in the video.
@@bogusmogus9551
Follow your leader
Amazing, my granma would be envious of such a view
Really well done! Just a quick pronunciation tip: Gramsci is pronunced Gramshi, if I'm making my self clear (uk sh = ita sc). Aside from that, again, great video!
Lol
What a fascinating, and important, history lesson! Thank you.
1883. He was born in 1883, not 1893. When, around one minute and thirty seconds within a video you see such mistake, it's not promising.
Whats with the crappy audio quality? It jumps from echo to loud and then silent all the time...
Mostly excellent, except for the error in the very first sentence of the commentary and descriptive intro text. You have BM being born in 1893, when, in fact, he was born in 1883. Surprising no one picked this up at the sub-editing stage.
Much of what was said about El Duce is also true of Franco in Spain. Especially the bit about the legacy of fascism and it's continued popularity in Spain.
....and also Trump
You're kidding right Trump has done nothing fascist it's really weird that the fascists call Trump fascist while calling themselves anti-fascist antifa is nothing more than modern-day brown shirts and they work for the Democrat Nazi party notice we haven't seen them so much since Biden's been installed you don't really notice anything do you if you're true to your comment but that's the problem with the left they use words they really just don't understand all the while being the thing that they accuse everybody else of
the difference being that Franco had the wisdom to not fight alongside the axis. Kind of makes you wonder - both Portugal and Spain were authoritarian dictatorships, allying with opposing sides. But neither really became the full allies to their faction. Instead, choosing and actually being irrelevant in terms of geograpjy and people to achieve neutrality. They choose to be nobodies and they won because of that.
@@johnwriter8234 really ? No, more the Democrat aka SOCIALIST Party of the USA, Trump was trying to negate the Right of the People to keep and bear arms ? No, every democrat is trying to do that, and of course does not apply to them and their protectors. Wake up. The Democrats use destroying your personal character and career dare you say something they do not agree with. Every friend of mine who fled Cuba, Soviet Russia, China says our Democrat party has more in common with what they ran from.
@@Pilvenuga to be honest Franco had destroyed his own military strength so badly during the civil war to gain power there was no point in Joining the War on the Axis side anyways. But yeah all things considered irrelevance is mostly a good thing when you're a small country (when small enter not a Superpower). Spain was growing economically while most other countries were in the chaos of war. And Franco outlived most of the more famous leaders of WW2
Interesting video, but is it just me or is the audio in this completely fd up?
Volume all over the place and weird sound effects (latter intentional perhabs?)
In the video it states he was born in 1893 in Italy, but was being arrested in Switzerland in 1903-1904 for socialist protests.I’m confused, was it error or was he really out the reforming socialism at 10-11 years old?
He was born in 1883.
he was an early riser
There’s a few other factual errors too: the mission to rescue Mussolini was actually “Operation Eiche” and the German puppet state was the “Italian Social Republic” - definitely not “Socialist Republic”.
Just roll with it
It shows you are a good listener.
It's a good thing my family left Italy before ww2 through Elise Island and served the American military in ww2
American used over 600,000 italian and italo-americans to help defeat our enemys, Even though there were some interned in camps in Montana as Enemy aliens.
@@mooseface2293 yup I knew that alot of people forget italians were in camps in America like the Japanese were and a lot of people don't know italians weren't treated well in America for a while italians weren't even considered white until 1948
Yeah, they had food to eat then.
what is going on with the audio in this one? great and informative video tho
Hard to take this seriously when they mention England and France but fail to mention that Stalin's Soviet Until was one of the main supporters of the Rebulican side in the Spanish Civil War.
And wupporting Trump
Scary to imagine what would have happened if italian military had been stronger.
Germans promised Italy 3 more years to prepare in the Pact of Steel, then betrayed Italy invading Poland just 4 months later without ever telling Mussolini of their intentions dragging an unprepared Italy into WW II...TRAITORS...even so, Italy's Empire was larger than Germany's.
If Italy was more competent then, War between Germany and Italy would have broken out eventually. Even if they both crushed the Allied forces and got away with all the land they wanted, two large hegemonic empires with incredible military capabilities, their own nationalistic intentions and conflicting ideas around race could not co exist on that continent.
“A man who has the delicate touch of an artist” 👀
love your videos bro
thank you bro
3:49 audio glitch lol
Lol i thought it was just me
And just a moment earlier than that his audio suddenly got louder too. Thought I was going crazy. Then later it gets quieter again.
And 4:15
A very good historic documentation. A dumb down for the clickbaiting though.
I love the video but, bro what is going on with your sound editing? there's sections where you're echoing and parts where the overall volume drops dramatically from the previous segment. Again I think this is a great video it just has some points that could make it even better.
Thank you for this informative video; to understand some of the complexities of WWII.
Correction: The only country to support the Spanish republic was the USSR. Britain and France did nothing at all. Worse, they declared weapon embargo to prevent the republic from arming it self.
Thank god, the republican front as a whole was way worse than the falangists.
Your Right🎉
The same evolution of Israel
@@aleale6277 Nah, they weren´t. Also they might be better if democratic forces got that support, the fact that the USSR was the only country willing to helúp caused that communists got massive influence.
Thank you for this historical insight. The flow from beginning to end captures a nation's misleading downfall using violence as a means to enrich and expand while sacrificing lives for a psychopath's dreams turned into nightmares.
My great uncle was captured as a POW by the Italians in North Africa. They treated him with such unspeakable brutality that none of his brothers (my grandfather included) refused to eat any Italian food or support any Italian businesses.
We have a large Italian refugee population where I am, most came over in the early 40s. If an Italian tried to speak to my grandfather, he wouldn't even look them in the eye.
I'm not justifying my grandfather's actions in any way. I think it shows how poorly they treated their prisoners.
Mussolini bit off more than he could chew
Nah, either, Mussolini could chew than he bit off more. 😂
Hi! Could you also make a video on British atrocities in India throughout their occupation?
Yeah, how about Africa too? ya know, BRITISH Somalia.
Fun fact: Mussolini was a British agent in 1917.
They did bring toilets to Bombay
Or how about Indian atrocities in Kashmir?
It's kind of breathtaking how fascism keeps bookending troubled societies across the ages 😅
This video has some serious problems with the audio - particularly the narration. The narration starts out normally then becomes so loud that it pins the my metering.
Then it has an echo.
I'm not complaining. Obviously, a fair amount of effort went towards the production of this video.
It deserves competent audio production to match the rest of the great work done here.
The similar things are happening in Hungary as those was happened during the early part of Mussolini's prime ministry.
The production quality of this video is just lazy. I can't watch this. At 03:47 and 04:13, you've got a double voice track. At 03:31, the audio track is significantly louder. At 05:02, it is significantly quieter. And at 08:09, having ripped a long section from a BBC production, you try to mask this by putting an AI filter over a public domain picture instead of just downloading the it yourself. You are blatantly just ripping off someone else's presentation and voicing over it yourself in this section. I stopped watching there, but wouldn't be surprised if there are other giveaways.
It is amazing for me to notice that a typical Mussolini is now creating havoc in Ethiopia. His name is PM Abiy Ahmed. For a thoughtful analyst, all the behaviors , actions and system of rule of Abiy Ahmed are typical of Mussolini. As Devil was renamed "Old Nick" after Nicholas Machiavelli, by the same token, Mussoloni should be renamed as "Old Abiy Ahmed ".
"Not only should Tunisia have exploded the myth of Hitler's military acumen, it should have discredited the idea that Germans fought better than the Italians, since Messe's 1st Italian Army held out longer than Arnim's 5th German Army and the DAK, even both groups had about six divisions and faced roughly equal Anglo-American forces. Indeed, Hermann Goring division was the first to be scattered on 7 May, DAK the next to break and surrender on 9 May, with the Italian Spezia division closing the gap created by the German collapse and watching still combat-efficient German units march off into captivity on 11 May. Whether it is significant that the German 90th Light division was the first to collapse in Messe's 'Italian' Army, there is no doubt that the Italians fought well and held out longest in Tunisia." (The Second World War: The German War 1939-1942, Jeremy Black, Page 265, Ashgate, 2007)”
AND...MUCH MORE
Grazie
Good history lesson
May have been because Rommel had left for Germany at the time
Rommel was a “genius” thanks only to the Italians:
“At that point, of course, the situation changed considerably and Rommel has gone down in history as one of the greatest military leaders of all time for his stunning victories over the British in north Africa.. What many fail to realize though is that the forces effectively under his command, which he used to win these masterful successes, were 2/3 Italian and the large majority of his armored forces were Italian tanks.”
“The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.”
_Rommel
And Italian intelligence and bravery:
NOTE: This video has since been removed due to copyright infringement. It showed how Italian Intelligence Services penetrated British Intelligence and relayed British fighting positions to Rommel, hence why he seemed to know their every move.@@merseybeast76
Wonderfully done! Thank you
No wonder he and Hilter got along. Their methods, their rise to power and beliefs are so similar
Remember, Hitler was allied with Stalinist Russia until he got greedy and violated their agreement. Interesting how out of 3 Socialist oriented countries with iron fisted control of their country and industry, two are labeled as right wing in spite of their left wing principles.
@DaveTex2375 Perhaps the commonality is that they were narcissistic psychopaths who created private armies in weak and unstable countries which they then used to take control through violence and intimidation. Before demanding that the general public be loyal to the State for the State knows what is best. Removing all unions, opposition political parties and desenting groups and individuals and substituting themselves for the State. I think dictators always aline together (they have a lot in common) and you are spot on Hitler got greedy like Napoleon before him. Let's all be grateful he did 😊
@@DaveTex2375well in some ways they were right wing. At least the Nazis were. Nazi Germany was essentially antagonistic towards any cultural change - looking to even revert to a past time that never existed. That’s a conservative mindset not a liberal one. Ultra nationalism is also generally associated with the right wing.
The Soviet Union was not quite the same in this regard. It did not hold onto the past and elevate its virtue. It readily poured women into the workforce during world war 2 and even allowed women to fight in combat roles. They were not exactly resistant to cultural change.
Nazi Germany wasn’t libertarian though that’s for sure. The party rightly had socialist in its name.
macho bullies are macho bullies no matter where you go. Discern the aphorisms behind their beliefs instead of remaining on the literal level where things appear different. The divine simplicity of it all.
@Singed88 Embracing cultural heritage isn't exclusively right wing. Also, some try to label them right wing because they allowed private ownership but fail to see how they imposed a high degree of government control over industry, making it so ownership and management were not truly in control of their business and more like management for the government. Very socialistic.
this whole video describing italy's atrocities really puts germany's atrocities into perspective when you consider italy was the more "moderate" of the two
Basically every European country wasn't better in Africa or India.......
@@Doge811Oh yes, the legendary Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Hungarian and Romanian colonies in Africa and India.
Your comment is so stupid i can't tell if you're joking or not. Basically half of Europe had nothing to do with colonialism.
Very well made video, a few errors here and there but still good.
I was in northern Italy in 2018 and went to a flea-market in northern Italy. I was rather shocked at the amount of Mussolini memorabilia on sale there.
That's normal there! It's totally legal! People are running around in SS and fascist uniforms without any problems!
Monuments all over Italy,
Open visible fascist symbols and never proper explanation of facism in school.
racism everywhere! Some regions are more neo-fascist than others... but a lot of Italians are racist!
It's like they are proud about their history and don't educate the new generation how bad fascism was!
They're just like us Georgians, but we have such stuff of Stalin.
My husband lived under Mussolini & he had nothing bad to say
@@a.f.7246 Also my great grandma lived under Mussolini. Her mother died of starvation, her husband was deported to a concentration camp and my other great grandma was deported because she was Jewish. Nothing to complain
Italy conquered 5 countries, was awarded the territory they won in France, and won the Spanish civil war vs. the Communist. Aside from Russia and Germany no other European country performed better, or stated another way, Italy was the 3rd best performing European country of the war. An Empire larger than Germany's.
Meanwhile, Britain lost most of it's empire. Wow, that's winning? I think that's called a Pyrrhic victory.
Hilarious.
Is it me or is the audio buggy?
But, did he really make the trains run on time?
Be warned any society comprised of blind followers could be like this.
Happening today with MAGA, you are right on.
@@myoung48281Yea 4 months later the “fasist” won a landslide victory.
Hope you coping well tds😂
Not a good dude, but I’ll say this - he was a frigging angel compared to Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot.
This should be required study for US voters, as this is the future of the US that x45 has in his sights. He fancies himself a modern day Mussolini. 😢
Gotta fix your audio bro.
Great channel ❤
There ain't no way he could be 19 in 1902 if he was born in 1893
he's so fucking manly and so great that he just is.
Mussolini was arrested by an italian partisan group leader known as "colonel Valerio" who had identified him as he was making his way to the swiss border. The "Duce"and his mistress Clara Petacci were both gunned down by Valerio in 1945 . As Mussolini was in his sixty-second year at the time of his execution the year of his birth is 1883 unmistakebly !!!
He was born in 1883
My grandfather was born and raised in Sicily he was a veteran of WW1 he served in the Italian Navy, when Mussolini came into power he immigrated to America with my grandmother, I remember watching a documentary on WW2 and when Mussolini was shown he started cursing, he said he was the reason he left Sicily , he considered him a fool and an idiot and he was right lol
Coming from a sicilian? not valid
@@JohnSmith-rw8uh idiot
Pretty sure Mussolini's descendants are still in Italian politics.
After a quick Google search, they are. Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, his great grandson, ran for the right side of the political party. Alessandra Mussolini, his granddaughter, is currently a politician. She currently serves as a Member of the European Parliament for Forza Italia. I just copy pasted that part, but you get the point, she's a politician lol.
His grandson plays for the Lazio soccer team. I hate them because I'm a Roma fan 😂
2 dictatorships with very different dynamics: Italians were reluctant to kill for Mussolini, Germans would not hesitate to die for Hitler.
fidel castro and che is the best viva socialista
@@Peasant7559 yeah, they were some of the best sh!t eaters.
@@e.s.6275 wow another imperialist sympatizer 😁
@@Peasant7559comrade you have food in Cuba? How you acessed the internet? The secret police allowed it ?
@@Kannot2023 im not cuban , che ,fidel , chavez maduro, mandela is a savior of this planet againts blood thirsty fascist and imperialist
Wow, the editing is top-notch! Great job!
Higher taxes for unmarried people, that is something the Trump campaign in the US has also talked about. They are unfortunately influenced by fascism in many ways.
Do to have actual evidence of this? Closest thing i seen was an OPINION piece on the site "the hill" but they also lacked actual evidence of said claim.
I am a 58 year old American. I think that the words right wing and left wing don't mean or are described differently in 🇺🇸 and Europe. Having said that, in my bias, i think that fascism can come from both the left or the right. It's about being how authoritarian the central government becomes.
interesting since the political compass puts fascism as auth center
Both Mussolini and Hitler were avowed socialists. They don’t easily fit into the left/right dichotomy. Their totalitarian dictatorships rival the likes of Stalin and Mao, two other avowed socialists, regarding the ruthless brutality of their regimes.
@@moonlightpegasusthat’s because totalitarianism policies intertwined with their economic/political affiliations. one thing all these rulers had in common was totalitarianism stemmed from facist roots. a pure socialist is only connected to an economic system standpoint
Yes fascism is basically a blend of left and right, the main distinction is that right wing fascism tends to grow economies and left wing fascism totally destroys economies
@@Red13.0 Nice. I do like your comment.
Well done! Thank you!
My father and his sisters were born in fascist italy. It was not a good time or place to be jewish. Fortunately they emigrated to the usa in 1929.