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Province map of Italian East Africa in 2020, after the Galeazzo Reform that transformed the larger commissariates into provinces and turned a few "residences" into full-fledged cities, as well as reducing the governors subordinated to the Viceroy of East Africa to three. The end result was...

That would pose the problem that such stereotype worked because they could put the Nazis in it. In a movie like Mulan, even if you moved it away from Ancient China, you need to have a scary, competent villain that's a very serious threath to the character's livehoods to igve actual stakes, and...

I mean, the Lefitsm criticism regarding "cultural appropiation" would be one that'd come way later. I'm more inclined to think that, should Mulu's family be presented as a poor one in a village, that'd be accused of stereotyping, especially in light of the then-recent Ethiopian famine. On the...

It wouldn't spread to other parts of Italy, not the way it did at least, mostly because they could always get around to puppeting the façade government this Sicily would have (the Mafia directly controlling the country is not very plausible, because their entire "business model" was based around...

Perhaps there was lesser Turkish emigrants in West Germany and Belgium. One has to Remember that Turkey's meeting requirements was the equivalent of wearing a gut belt at a formal ceremony: it did look alright on the moment, but at some point it had to come off. What Turkey did was essentially...

I don't see why not. Sure, Algeria and Tunisia are clearly not under France anymore, but I don't see any reason for why they'd lose the Comores, Guayana, and their Pacific possessions (and, besides, the Kerguelens being "patrimony of the Union" is pretty much a joke).

I find odd that former Jugoslavia shattered and had part of it join the EU. The Union already bellyached in accepting the Southern Europeans' entrance, can't imagine that statelets of questionable functioning from Jugoslavia, already one of the slowest-growing countries ever, would be good...

Former Casa del Fascio in Como. Situated at the number 4 of Piazza Impero, the building was planned by Giuseppe Terragni, started in 1933 and ended in 1936, when it was inagurated as the local organizing centre of the PNF. When the Fall of Fascism happened and the final results of the 1980...

The problem with that is, the Kingdom of Northen Italy would already have three "big dialects" plus one foreign language to contend with: Lombarb, Venetian, Piedmontese, and French. To administrate, they're going to need a neutral language, and I'm not sure Alessandro Manzoni or what other great...

The biggest problem with the idea is that you're going to need some precedent to have language in particular as a nationalist basis. Venetian is pretty close to what you are referring to, but other Italian languages didn't have a strong connection to the country they were spoken in, not anymore...

I mean, it does paint it the rise of Socialism in the US as a bad thing. If nothing else because it's implied that Socialists bungled in every step of the way and basically never had a single long-lasting success story to show for it.

I mean, it is pretty dramatic and heavy, but I think that at this point its weight has been somewhat overstated, compared to the screentime and overall attention it got. By the way some people talk about it, you'd think the entire series was centered around Poland and it's role in such a...

I think some of the casting choices were sensible, but ultimately fell into favouring "pretty Boys" and "pretty girls" for big roles, to the detriment of actual acting, which lead to the scenes we all know.

One consequence would, without doubt, be the lesser amount of unpleasant people hiding behind the genre to fulfill violent xenophobic fantasies. Call me crazy, but I think we could do without Longinus' Lance's fanfictions missing the point and implying that the Third Abhramitic Religion (it...

A photo of Bolzano, the second-biggest city in Trentino. Conquered by Italy in WWI, the city used to host a large German-speaking community of Tyroleses. During Mussolini's regime, the language was severely suppressed: while people did organize underground schools to try and preserve Tyrolese...

Screenshot from the Anglo market version of Civilization II (actually the third in the overall series). The Civilization series (titled La Civilizzazione in Italian) started out as the first project of the ENIVP (Ente Nazionale Industrie VideoPassatempistiche), a state-owned enterprise meant to...

The area corresponding to roughly OTL's French Guayana had been considered as a colony by one of Tuscany's Granddukes, but it didn't come to fruition due to a lack of interest in the investment by the successor. So, just make the Granddukes of Tuscany be more "Americas-oriented" and you could...

Photo of minor Neoidealist philosopher Benedetto Croce, one of the most prominent figures of antifascism during the first twenty years of its rule. He declared that the Partito Nazionale Fascista and Mussolini were "just like the Hyskios invading Egypt", namely a parenthesis in Italian liberalism.

Aerial view of a part of San Domino. This island, part of the Tremiti Arcipelago, used to be a place where Fascist Italy exiled homosexuals and "sexual deviants" (usually, but not always, transgenders of either direction and nonviolent sexual offenders). When the island reached capacity, most...

Then again, Spanish fascist parties were just extremized positions of conservative parties. Maybe Forza Nuova is a bit of a stretch, along with the Partito Movimento Sociale Italiano (which, as an addendum, as a name it is a bit too convergent with OTL), but the other three exhibit enough...