i wish we had some masterpost about fascist italy not being a joke. from ww2 paper-tiger and the reapproachment of the west toward fascism after the war we tend to forget that besides being The First fascist nation, the fascisti murderered and ruined the lives of tens of thousands of people

and yeah mussolini was a blow hard dork but all i can think of when i see that face are real people. trade unionists, communists, feminists, etc. getting liters of castor oil forced down their throats; ethiopians, libyans, spanish, albanians, slavs and greeks getting murdered and thrown in shallow mass graves