The Diabolical Things Benito Mussolini Did During His Reign
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2023
- Mussolini was born on the 29th July 1893. His father was an avowed socialist while his mother was a devout Catholic. This conflicting balance of economic socialism but social traditionalism might be key to explaining the radical path the young boy would take later in his life.
Mussolini was a difficult child with rebellious and violent tendencies. He was expelled from multiple schools for engaging in fights with other pupils and even staff. At one school, he was expelled for stabbing another boy with a penknife during an argument.
At home, Mussolini was radicalized into his father’s socialist politics. While helping his father in his workshop, the young Mussolini’s head was filled with criticisms of the government and the dreams of a socialist future. As he got older, Mussolini began attending socialist meetings and building a network of friends among the socialist movement. These early political engagements planted the seeds of political ambition that would one day bear terrible fruit.
In 1902, the 19 year old Mussolini emigrated to Switzerland. Mussolini immersed himself in radical political ideas of direct action and violent opposition to the powers that be. He began advocating for these tactics which resulted in him being arrested and deported to Italy in 1903 and again in 1904, before returning to Italy permanently. After serving his 18 months of compulsory military service from 1905 to 1906, Mussolini began editing and writing for a variety of socialist publications. His rise to stardom came with the Italian Invasion of Libya in 1911. Despite his own military service, Mussolini was a fierce critic of the war and even participated in anti-war riots. His public opposition to the war caught the eye of authorities who arrested him and sentenced him to jail for 5 months. Already popular on the socialist left, Mussolini’s anti-war advocacy and arrest catapulted him to new heights and he became one of Italy’s foremost socialist figures. In 1912, he was appointed the editor for Italy’s leading socialist newspaper, Avanti!. The paper went from 20,000 daily readers to 100,000 under Mussolini’s oversight. Mussolini’s power to appeal to the people was clear.
Now a rising political star with an audience at his fingertips, Mussolini’s path in life was soon to take a radical turn.
Mussolini Turns to the Right
In 1914, the First World War erupted in Europe. Italy was initially neutral and Mussolini, like most socialists, supported this neutrality. However, Mussolini’s opinion soon changed and he came to see the war as an opportunity to inspire revolution across Europe as the old regimes were consumed by devastating conflict. By the end of 1914, Mussolini was passionately pro-war. His new pro-war opinions alienated his socialist allies and in October 1914 he was suspended from his position as editor for Avanti!.
However, Mussolini would not be silenced. He quickly founded a new paper, Il Popolo d’Italia, which would run until the fall of his regime in 1945. In Il Popolo, Mussolini advocated for Italian entry into the war, a position that earned him secret backing from the British and French governments. But Mussolini’s intentions were far from pure: he wanted war as a prelude to revolution and came to see war as a crucial step in forming a strong Italian national identity. As he famously claimed in a speech in December 1914: “Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” Furious at the Italian government, he urged “the shooting, I say shooting in the back of some dozen deputies.” Mussolini argued that the Germans were engaged in a “war of extermination” and, in return, “we must reply with a war of extermination of our own.”
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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 !
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%.
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!
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!
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.
Born in 1883, not 1893
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 😄😄
@@orkotron007 when?
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
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
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.
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
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 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.
Your audio levels are all over the place in this one. Absolutely love your videos though no matter. ♥️
duck pic spotted
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"
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.
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
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😂😂😂
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
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.
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
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?
I like the episode of "The Office" when Jim tricks Dwight into reading a Mussolini speech at that sales award ceremony.
From high school in the 60's, I remember: For sale: Italian army rifle. Never fired, only dropped once.
That was a well known Vietnam era trope.
ARVN AR-15s.
@@mattgoodmangoodmanlawnmowi2454 This was 1965-66.
Yeah, you should tell this joke to JFK
@@edod7284
It is worse than that. My father would reply deadpan @ That was so funny, the first time I heard it iI kicked in the slats of my crib “
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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
“Blood alone moves the wheels of history” - Dwight Schrute
Moral of the story: don't allow power to be centralized, no matter what anyone promises you.
It's happening currently all around the world for a One World Government.
Moral is: do not allow anyone into power who openly seeks power, values power, and imposes power for the sake of power. Power is a narcotic matter for them. Everything or anything will be sacrificed to the power.
These people are clearly distinguishable especially with modern means of psychological analysis.
There should be such a legal filter in place, to filter out such narcissistic jerks like Mussolini , Orban, or Trump.
@@johnpruett5258 ..no ..thing will change..
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!
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.
14:19 That’s such an iconic image. Hard to believe someone actually thought it was a good idea.
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 a fascinating, and important, history lesson! Thank you.
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.
I enjoy being informed, but technical advice: check your audio. It gets quiet, then loud and even echoes at times for no reason
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.
Thank you for this informative video; to understand some of the complexities of WWII.
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
"In 1914 WW1 broke out over Europe"
Uses footage from WW2.
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
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
I think this is my favorite new channel ❤
Excellent job man, I really appreciate it.
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.
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
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?
he’s my birthday buddy☹️
Oof
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.
Vatican was also the first state to recognize 1934 the Nazi regime. Vatican also supported Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portogal etc.
The Vatican and the Catholics also established the "ratline" that allowed the Nazis to escape to South America. Just plain evil
Literally everyone who tithes at a Catholic church is a pedo supporter. I wish the Christians would quit claiming queer people were a threat to children and protest Catholicism. They've been a cancer for far too long.
They didn't have much choice. The choices were: the commies who destroy their churches or the fascists who don't.
Don't act high and mighty. You would've picked the same group if it meant protecting your churches.
As communists were vocally atheist, that threatened the Roman Catholic Church. As the Church is, was and had been corrupt for centuries, that makes perfect sense.
Ask the Vat. Banks...
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?)
Though, Mussolini didn’t align with Hitler until he thought Hitler was definitely going to win..
I already took pride in my family history during WW2. But after hearing more of the crimes in Italy I feel a deeper pride in my Great Papa being a front line combat cook in Italy from 41-44. (Canadian here, Papa fought as an Ally force)
combat cook? damn
a warrior + chef
sheeeeesh respecc
@@Pootispenserherehoovy yep the boys in the trenches gotta eat even in war. And a combat cook is scary lol can make a 5star meal or kill a man hand to hand, just depends on the day
Its a shame that the same type of people are raising their ugly heads in all the western governments right now trying to stop us all from expressing ourselves our freedom of speech and they have started to close down farms in Europe and are talking about doing it elsewhere now. We have leaders in the west acting like Nazi's while pretending to be for human rights but only for trans gender people which is really weird and very authoritarian
@@JaceReboot was your papa named sanji by any chance?
There's NO way any Battles can be Fought nor won without The supporting Troops!!!!
We Owe your *"Great PaPa"* and His Family much Thanks & Respect
For the Sacrifices they made!!!!
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
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
Mussolini bit off more than he could chew
Nah, either, Mussolini could chew than he bit off more. 😂
So glad I managed to find this channel. Loving the content and its delivery. I’ve binged so much of this channel in the past 2 weeks 😅
Same. Unfortunately, I have caught up and now I have to wait forever for new episodes! 😂
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.
What's up with your audio? It's all over the place. Sometimes I can hear you twice, sometimes loud and sometimes quite.
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.
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.
Excellent history recall.
Thank you.
WAR IS A RACKET
We must not forget that Mussolini only joined the Axis begrudgingly because the allies refused to take him in. Churchill advocated for him and tried to reason with the allies, asking them to make an exception for Mussolini and allowing him to keep his colonies, which was against the Allies' bylaws. This would have added a valuable ally to the Allies and taking one away from Hitler. But of course the courageous, principled, honest decision-makers of the Allies refused, and we know the rest.
yeah, mussolini really didn't want war.
The last frases where not serious : the ones with honest and principles 😂😂😂
I don't know about a "valuable" ally as the Italians had no success anywhere they didn't surprise attack and as soon as the side they attacked responded, they were thrown back out. They were a three legged dog _at best_ and even that is giving them far more credit than they deserve. Italy hasn't been relevant to geopolitics in 1700 years and they still aren't today.
@@pigpuke
Well take that "valuable" with a grain of salt...
Some canon fodder, less guns for "the big guy", and more for the Allies, PLUS easier/earlier access through the "Soft White Underbelly".
Mussolini was actually a British agent. It was recently discovered he was paid 100 pounds per week during WW1 to promote British interests...
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.
( I want you to translate my comment from Italian as i want to express my feelings about this video with my actual words) Non c'è nulla di meglio di sentire parlare uno straniero del capitolo più buio della nostra storia ,in Italia la storia del fascismo è ampiamente insegnata nelle scuole così come fin da piccoli veniamo educati al rispetto per i morti del fascismo e molti di noi crescono con storie (tristi ma spesso con un velo di nostalgia). La nostalgia è certo una parola chiave del nostro paese ,un paese che vive di passato ,di turismo ,di monumenti e di arte . E che già negli anni '20 del 900 aveva bisogno di ricordare gli antichi fasti dell'impero romano. Ci siamo comportati da capre ,traumatizzati e delusi da anni di guerra e ciechi davanti alle atrocità ed alla violenza e molte persone nel nostro paese lo sono tutt ora...
Il trauma più grande è scoprire come questa storia all'estero sia dimenticata,sminuita e ridotta a una vicenda di noi mangia spaghetti allo sbaraglio.
Grazie , grazie di cuore per aver contribuito a far conoscere le ombre della nostra storia . E tanti saluti dall'Italia vera ,quella antifascista ❤
Btw italian army wasn't actually a joke. airborne corp "folgore" reaaally freaked out British army in Egypt and was really a big deal at El Alamein,they even had to create "anti folgore squads" to stand a chance against them
Wonderfully done! Thank you
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?
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
bro thinks he caesar
The nonsense of the Italian Navy being completely inept:
“This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent. It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels. If doomed by its own technical weaknesses and Ultra (the top-secret British decoding device), the Italian navy still fought a tenacious and gallant war; and if it did not win that war, it avoided defeat for thirty-nine, long, frustrating months.”
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 🫡
My parents families saw this coming in Italy around the early 1930s and came to the US.
And now you have the Republican party to deal with.
@@Traitorman.14.3 myself and my entire family which is numbers in the 100s is 💯 Conservative Republican but nice try foolish child!
@@Traitorman.14.3Then why is your pfp Trump as a super-hero?
@@TotallySerious44
You will have noticed that the Avatar is him with a large T on his chest.
The Avatar combined with the name tells us what the T stands for.
So. I am merely spreading the information that his Superhero name is Traitorman and his superpower is Russia.
@@Traitorman.14.3are you mentally ill?
audio editing at 3:45 is wild, thought my speakers turned on.
Great video, but please...Normalize your audio .. this one is all over the place, im sure you can see it on the audio track on the editor
Your videos are always one of a kind..
Thanks for the upload..💖
its not my video but youre welcome!
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
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 😅
Good video, you need to sort out your audio though. Especially the occasional echo, really annoying.
After watching this video, I've come to realize some very distressing parallels between the rise of the fascist party in Italy and the ongoing cultural unrest in the United States. All of the "ingredients" and factors involved are notably similar.
History tends to work in cycles, and it has been around a century since this specific type of reactionary phenomena gained support on such a large scale.
There is instant redress though or instant karma in all this; the more lies are being told in multiple nations the common person-even one in communist China- finds out from what’s sifting down the internet that he and his neighbors weren’t born yesterday.😅
@@ljyhljyh8178 That is a good point.
Can you give some examples of parallels?
As long as America has Its constitutional protections for the people. Then it should not matter what party is in charge. Except the peoples freedoms and protections are gone. With Americans that can’t be individually free or protected for being different. To feel different, better, happy, or relax. To mirroring Nazis Germany’s genocide. Of cultures, races and religion. With our Drug Enforcement Agency. Against the people of the drug culture. That socialize with the same culture. That has been law abiding, patriotic people. Except for the laws to control their souls. By destroying their constitutional rights and protections. By Construing to Disparage to death. Leaving the family units desperate, mentally ill and suicidal. For wanting to feel better, happy, or relax with that same culture. Destroying the Americans rights to be different. By destroying the America’s people constitutional rights, protections and freedoms. We have what?.
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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.
"In 1914 the first world war breaks out" *proceeds to show footage purely from ww2*
Great video, audio is all over the place though :/
love your videos bro
thank you bro
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 ".
Good docu, could have been better if audio was done right
Why don’t you stop the player hating toward a man on his grind? Jealousy is crazy
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Glad my Grand Dad, who was originally from Sicily, went back in 1944 and took that SOB out.
The audio in this presentation is all over the place.
Thank you, I thought I was losing my mind!
Huh. I have excellent hearing, and no problem with this soundwise.
Sounds good to me too
Great channel ❤
Very informative
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.
But, did he really make the trains run on time?
It's so fascinating how life was back then; to live through the Napoleon wars, the Hapsburg dynasty, World War I, World War II, the Russian Revolution of 1917-1918, silent films and the depression (30's?),...
what is going on with the audio in this one? great and informative video tho
The similar things are happening in Hungary as those was happened during the early part of Mussolini's prime ministry.