Italy lived through fascist times and if Mussolini hadn’t allied with Hitler it might have lasted..

..in Italy as long as it did in Spain 🇪🇸

Nobody talks about the fascist regime in Spain and I wonder why? It all seems to be about Germany 🇩🇪 which was Nazi, not fascist. They now use the Italian word to describe all right wing regimes, which denigrates Italians to being antisemitic which they have claimed they were not. Indeed the church took Jews in and issued them with Papal passports! This too is forgotten because the type of fascism we face now is based on the words of the Grand Mufti!

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SomeMichGuy · M

The Nazis were Fascists. Just a different name, but Adolf learned from Benito.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@SomeMichGuy Recvently saw a very interesting video about just what the Nazis were. First thing it did was point out that European and US definitions of Right and Left differ. Anyway, The Nazis had some things in common with the Italian Fascists, but they also had some thing we would consider Socialist -- universal health care for example -- but both systems were totalitarian dictatorships run under a cult of personality, just like Stalin's USSR and Trump';s wannabe USA.

SomeMichGuy · M

@ChipmunkErnie Yes.