look, many Italians still respect him. His final resting place in Predappio draws a lot of visitors. Was he a great guy? no Did he have some interesting ideas, with some intellectual depth? heck yes! was he an absolute pragmatist? I would think so.
Yes, historically speaking, Napoleon was the first "Fascist", although the term wasn't around back then.
Duce was one of the worst people who lived on this planet in my opinion. He was hanged and I believe that was the only good thing to do for such a bastard. Unfortunatelly so many fascists are still alive - especially in Italy. However, the communists are quite strong in Italy, too.
EDIT: napoleon also helped cause 2 world wars also, one of the reasons there are still facists in Italy, is that mousolini's grand daughter has a few seats in the government... there system of electing government is much like swedens, cept they have a much lower percentage votes to get a seat, thats why the ousolini party is in the government
But he reformed europe in many ways. oh, yes, Alessandra Mussolini, isn't she great? She is not a Fascist, though.
yeah, but also, where would the world be without those two wars [they were horriffic though, no question]... we wouldnt have any where near as much technology, colonialism might probobly still exist.... the Nazis made great leaps in the feilds of medicine and human biology [mainly cause they didnt care what they did to the Jews] i find it humourous that Mousolini didnt like Hitler when they were first on the scene
You think? She's the one that protested when they decided to ban fascist sings out of public or something like that. She's a fascist, believe me. And both duce and führer were bastars and they're better dead.
no, what i mean when i say i find it humourous, is that, its slightly ironic...he really didnt like hitler, but ended up teaming up with him
what i find horrible about europe, is that many of the countries are trying to ban the swastika, even though it has been used in eastern religions for good luck for mellenia
