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Gotta hold onto that power somehow (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascism was a form of colonialism

Wow what an utterly ridiculous statement. No wonder it came from lemmygrad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Are you joking? Every scholar of Fascism will tell you that Fascist Italy inherited numerous colonies from the prefascist period: the Dodecanese Islands, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and arguably a portion of Tianjin, and later Fascist Italy added Fiume in 1924 and Albania, Ethiopia, and Tavolara in the 1930s. The very expression ‘mutilated victory’ was quickly adopted by the Fascists because they were outraged that the Kingdom of Italy didn’t gain more territory from World War I. Did you seriously not know this?

From the Dodecanese Islands to Libya, to Eritrea, the Italian state’s colonial holdings were testing grounds for strategies of governance and repression that would characterize [Fascist] domestic and occupied territories during World War II.^13^

(Source.)