What was Mussolini's regime like?

>What was Mussolini's regime like?
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Fascism is numero uno.

This could be true, haven't looked into that side of it but it was known that Italy wasn't really war ready when the Nazis invaded Poland, so supporting any attempts Germany would've made would've been interesting.

Mussolini didn't even get involved in the war despite signing the pact of steel for another 2 years if memory serves correct.

If the war hadn't happened it would've been interesting to see how Italy would've fared

I've never thought about it like that..I think you're right

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He was doing fine and popular until hitler arrived on the scene. Mussolini was left with two options. Either stay neutral in WW2 and have the threat of Germany and western countries or join germany who at the time looked very impressive especially with a peace treaty from the Soviets. Mussolini was in a no win situation and his army was ready for a war.

identical to the previous lifestyle under direct savoy leadership. only with some more deco bulding here and there. and yes there were raids against dissidents, but that happened even before. same old same old, people carry on with their life with relative to no interest on politics, as long as they can feed themselves

*was NOT ready for war.

>his army was ready for a war.

Were they?

How would you say he compares to other leaders (pre war and financial crisis of the 20's).

I've never really heard an Italian's perspective on it outside of the one guy that posts in brit/pol/

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Mussolini was basically the average Yas Forums user who starts off blue-pilled, gradually becoming red-pilled, but sadly goes around the spectrum a bit due to analyzing the good and bad of all sides, thus becoming somewhat indecisive until finally settling with Fascism or National Socialism until the last minute. If given more time to let his regime fully go into effect, Italy would have been powerful enough to be a benefit in the war. Unfortunately, the war itself is what interrupted his ideal Italy under Fascism.

>go rescue Mussolini in Africa
Hitler had to help them against Greece which delayed Bararossa. The Italians were a burden in Africa too according to Rommel, trash equipment and organization.

Benito was in power for 18 years when WWII started, Hitler had 1/3rd of that.

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Mussolini never wanted to get involved with WW2 but he was left with little options. Italy's army was not ready for any war. At the time western countries were still very powerful militarily so it's no surprise that they out power a weaker unprepared army.

he was a textbook demagogue. good to gain the masses' favour, but an incompetent politician. the main issue of italy throughout its story after the unification was the poor logistics and complex bureaucracy. he didn't solve that, on the contrary he exacerbated it. in times of peace the propaganda kept this problem at bay, but when italy went to war it took little more than two years to see how poorly prepared was this nation for a war. soldiers were led by ignorant officials from the old noble houses or were friends of friends of someone in the party, soldiers were equipped with the wrong ammo, orders were never clear and often clashed with other dispositions. it took two years for mussolini to see the favour he built towards italians crumble.
overall he just sprayed a new coat of paint over an old, corrupted italy and call it brand new. he was a disgrace.

He wasn't a Fascist dictator from the beginning of that. He was a regular prime minister. At one point in time, he was a communist. During the war, he lost his position and just became some overseer of Northern Italy.

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At first Mussolini had little interest in national socialism. It was hitler who looked up to Mussolini at first. It wasn't until Germany became more powerful and proved a serious force by taking over france did Mussolini take their side. It was then that fascists turned racist and antisemitic. Basically the were low key under Hitler's rule.

Very interesting, thank you

I believe Mussolini's rule was more based on pro Italian beliefs, he seemed to respect the jews and didn't want to single them out or attack them despite an uprising against the bolsheviks.

I remember reading that he didn't really agree with Hitlers final solution as Italy's relationship with the jewish population was much different and played into economic and social factors maybe cultural factors of bits of Italy (I think either Carpi or Capri had a large jewish population, not sure which one, they have similar names and read it about 5 or 6 days ago).

But yeah as you said they basically had to pick a side which then ended up with Mussolini getting captured, released and forced to lead the northern Italy puppet state

Mussolini was never a communist.