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Who is that man in your avatar? That Asian guy in the Mao type suite?

I have to be careful about what I read and watch as far as violence is concerned even in works of fiction. It's really bad. I had to quit reading a series of books in Spanish that I was a thousand+ pages into because the violence bothered me too much and was affecting my sleep and anxiety levels. To me, depictions of real violence, especially that are currently happening, certainly wouldn't be just in a video, just in a book, etc., but I realize we're all different.

Never heard of him. Had to Google him.

He was head of the Soviet secret police under Stalin. Presided over the execution of thousands...until he himself got tortured and forced to confess to something or other...and got executed himself.

Thats different. An unusual celeb to have on your profile.

So you...have a henchman of Stalin as your avator (instead of some boring old athlete of movie star or rock star)...have a morbid sentence as your signature, and in one thread you say you have special interest in "cannon fodder tactics", and in this thread you say you cant wait until war breaks out in Gaza because it would be entertaining because it generate casualties.

I bet that your...house is a museum...


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@Kraichgauer:
You don't know all their crimes, some have been classified for many decades, others we only knew in part.

Do you know the Foibe?

The war in Greece, the massacres?
Our wars in Africa, are you sure?
The Italian concentration camps?

The mass exterminations (the ones done by us)?

Racial laws?

You can't know them because after the war the equivalence of good Italian and bad German had to pass.

Believe me we were not different at all, have you ever seen the absolute conviction of two Nazi regimes together?

You only know things to a very small extent.

Try searching in English for Italian war crimes.

The data is enormous even before the world wars and after.

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Do you know what government we have now?

Far right.

The new fascist government was born on September 23rd eighty years ago: it was called the Italian Social Republic and everyone called it the Republic of Salò.

Benito Mussolini created it less than two months after his arrest on 25 July which occurred after the famous vote of the Grand Council -: from that day the Duce was continuously transferred to various locations to prevent the Germans from freeing him.

After the armistice, on 16 September,when the king had already fled to Brindisi and much of central and northern Italy was controlled by the Nazis – Mussolini was freed. A week later he created the new fascist government: it was decentralized and spread across northern Italy but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Propaganda, the press agency and related offices were based in Salò.

So, consequently, all the communiqués began by saying "Salò communicates" and made the city on Garda a synonym of the government itself.


The impression one gets, observing the brief history of this fascist experiment, oscillates between the construction of a puppet state of Nazi Germany and the desperate attempt to regain power by a moribund regime.


It was a chaos of armed and semi-independent gangs fighting against the partisans and each other, who committed brutal crimes even against civilians. However, little is known about this, since much has remained hidden about the idea of the puppet state.


Marco Cuzzi, professor at the Department of Historical Studies of the State University of Milan, author of Six Hundred Days of Terror in Milan.


Daily life in the times of Salò (Neri Pozza, 2022) and winner of the Acqui Storia prize.




The State of the Social Republic should have been "republican, corporate and fascist". What does it mean and how, in reality, was it? It means that after 25 July 1943 and after the "betrayal" of the king, the rebirth of a fascist state could only be the antithesis of a monarchical state and, therefore, a republican state .


Furthermore, this passage explicitly referred to the fascist origins, to the San Sepolcro manifesto of 1919, to the call then made for a new Constituent Assembly, in opposition to the monarchical structure.


Therefore, on the one hand there was an obligatory and oppositional choice with respect to the monarchy; on the other, a reminder of the more rebellious roots of fascism.


The idea of corporatism as a form of socialization was also connected to this last point. The corporate element remained at the basis of the entire fascist, littorio and republican system, in this context the idea of socialization was strengthened through hypotheses of worker co-management. In fact, there was none of this in practice, except in some companies, especially editorial and the most "comfortable" ones, such as that of Popolo d'Italia.


Obviously, beyond the republican propaganda aspect (frequent references to Mazzini, the Bandiera brothers), it was a republic without parties, of another regime.


And the workers' strikes of 1944? In the general narrative one imagines a mobilization of political nature. However, although there were certainly sectors that joined the Resistance forces, the priority element was that of the social strike, of dispute. We no longer wanted war. In any case, the repression was brutal and these episodes marked a huge disconnect from the regime. Who were the armed wings of the RSI? How did they operate?


So many. First of all, the organized military force of the army, under the leadership of Rodolfo Graziani, with four complete divisions and various units, which should have supported the Germans on the front line but which, largely, after 1944, formed groups of hunters to repress the internal resistance.


Then there was a more political army, a black shirt army, namely that of the National Guard, made up of the cold fusion between the old fascist militia, the Italian African police and the carabinieri.


Then there were the black brigades, made up of party members, involved in the repression of the partisans. Furthermore, the Decima Mas and the police should not be forgotten.

The Decima Mas, under Junio Valerio Borghese, was a sort of medieval-style company that interacted directly with the Germans.

The Republican police, however, very battered and infiltrated by the Resistance, was gradually replaced by ruthless gangs in every city. What does the high rate of draft evasion in Salò tell us? Resistance was one of the forms of plural resistance.


A political conviction certainly also played a part in this but, even in this case, the desire to end yet another war that was heading towards defeat was decisive.

Remember that many draft dodgers had already participated in the conflicts in Greece, Albania, Russia and North Africa.
Now the world balance has changed.

There are two thirds of the world who have ganged up against us.

And they are very strong nations.

One of these nations aims precisely to diverge public opinion from the reality of the facts.

Wars are thought to be local.


*The expansionism of China and beyond will be clear-cut towards Africa and beyond.

Be careful because now they can and are very strong.

They permeate the economies of nations.

They bring millions of their citizens to occupy economies.

Can you imagine what I'm aiming for in Africa?

Raw materials and bases, as well as building Atomic Power Plants.

No state can intervene anywhere anymore, because a multitude of nations would be found in a new military alliance.

Anyone who thinks about the conflict of wars has already lost them from the start.


In any case the situation would turn into a third world war.


Can we avoid it?

Yes.

We must avoid it

Huckleberry Finn -
Pretty grim stuff. Have Italians embraced their history as Germany has?

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The international priority given to seeking a resolution on behalf of Ukrainians and Palestinians isn't given the same parity as for other minorities at risk of genocide (both historically and currently). That seems (at a basic level of understanding) to be obvious to me.