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Originally Posted by M.R.
It's not just something which can be excused with simple "happens in war", even if we take away all the killing etc, it's one thing, trying to destroy ones national identity and "Italianize" him is something else... As for Mussolini I have no respect for him, the man was a lunatic to me and maybe even a burden to your fascist movement. I'd had respect for Fascist Italy had they not occupied Slovenian territory before and during the war.
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Mussolini wasn't lunatic, he just suffered from a too long stay in power alone, as it had happened countless times to roman emperor, and this was documented by roman history, which was extensively studied in italian high schools at the time of Mussolini, a schoolteacher himself.
His social and economic achievements are well documented, and the framework of his social action wasn't touched until the nineties.
His defects were in his politics of conquest that was totally unrealistic for a patched up country with several drains and with an incomplete process of industrialization, substantially limited to padanian areas.
As of Slovenia and many other blunders, his calculations were that of man who had learned nothing from roman history.
But that is not lunacy, that's the effect of too much solitude in power with a stubborn refusal to discuss his proposals and strategies with any peer.
Unlike old wise medieval kings, Mussolini isolated himself in power: he had had the merit of destroying squabbling, ineffective and traitorous political parties, but he also refused any dialectic help from wise people he might have consulted in many fields.
In today's Iran there is no place of discussion on the basic values of the State, but there is a busy dialectic between various factions of the islamic forces, who have also a strong technocratic current, made of well schooled people.
Mussolini might have followed this road, which would have spared him (and us) many hazardous moves in international politics.