Giovinezza: An Italian Timeline

Anyways the Italians will likely keep Libya. Mussolini can go for offering tens, if not hundreds of thousands of WWII veterans and their family members to move to government-subdized housing in Libya. I'm not too sure about Tunisia remaining under Italian occupation. It wasn't a French colony but a protectorate and it has a small but economically influential Italian population though at the same they are outnumbered by the much larger presence of French settlers (around 100,000+) and the local Tunisian Arab population, often treated as second class citizens by the French, a policy that I do not see changing for any reason by the Fascist regime. Tunisia would become independent.

Eritrea can be kept and gain a Dominion-style status in the Italian Empire. So can Somalia. Ethiopia....I can easily see that becoming Italy's Vietnam. I can see the Italians remaining there until the late 1960s or early 1970s.
 
Anyways the Italians will likely keep Libya. Mussolini can go for offering tens, if not hundreds of thousands of WWII veterans and their family members to move to government-subdized housing in Libya. I'm not too sure about Tunisia remaining under Italian occupation. It wasn't a French colony but a protectorate and it has a small but economically influential Italian population though at the same they are outnumbered by the much larger presence of French settlers (around 100,000+) and the local Tunisian Arab population, often treated as second class citizens by the French, a policy that I do not see changing for any reason by the Fascist regime. Tunisia would become independent.

Eritrea can be kept and gain a Dominion-style status in the Italian Empire. So can Somalia. Ethiopia....I can easily see that becoming Italy's Vietnam. I can see the Italians remaining there until the late 1960s or early 1970s.

I agreed with this analysis, and about Italy being a great power, well yes it's one of the big winners, lot of influence zone and new territories, but still a lot of devastation, the death toll is astounding and a lot of big cities are devastated and need a lot of reconstruction. Honestly i envision her like UK or France as still an important power but overshadowed by the two big guys and Ethiopia and Bulgaria seem posed to be Indochina and Algeria equivalent for Italy, Benny (who btw his health will probably be worsened by the stress of the war) will try to compensate all by both creating a fascist block and the italian equivalent of the commonwealth for the colonies
 
I agreed with this analysis, and about Italy being a great power, well yes it's one of the big winners, lot of influence zone and new territories, but still a lot of devastation, the death toll is astounding and a lot of big cities are devastated and need a lot of reconstruction. Honestly i envision her like UK or France as still an important power but overshadowed by the two big guys and Ethiopia and Bulgaria seem posed to be Indochina and Algeria equivalent for Italy, Benny (who btw his health will probably be worsened by the stress of the war) will try to compensate all by both creating a fascist block and the italian equivalent of the commonwealth for the colonies

As Noravea says, Mussolini is going to start serious planning for the succession around 1949 or 1950. He's already laid the foundations by moving his son Vittorio, Count Ciano and Marshal Balbo into a sort of triumvirate of deputies. I suspect that how these men react to the developing situation in Bulgaria will have a direct effect on who the Duce selects as his political heir.

Agreed on Ethiopia. Actually, on reviewing it all, I now think that Italy has bought itself a trunkful of trouble with all the territories it's directly incorporated into its Empire. I speculate that it'll be the #1 target for anticolonialists in TTL 1950's and 1960's, even more so than Britain or France.
 
As Noravea says, Mussolini is going to start serious planning for the succession around 1949 or 1950. He's already laid the foundations by moving his son Vittorio, Count Ciano and Marshal Balbo into a sort of triumvirate of deputies. I suspect that how these men react to the developing situation in Bulgaria will have a direct effect on who the Duce selects as his political heir.

Agreed on Ethiopia. Actually, on reviewing it all, I now think that Italy has bought itself a trunkful of trouble with all the territories it's directly incorporated into its Empire. I speculate that it'll be the #1 target for anticolonialists in TTL 1950's and 1960's, even more so than Britain or France.

The CIA and the KGB are going to have fun mucking up in Italy's playground.
 
You'll either all love me, or hate me for this. Over the last few days, I have rewritten much of the TL on my computer, and will repost a new thread when it is done. It will still be continued from Post-World War II, but another update won't come for a few weeks when I post a new thread and post many simultaneous updates. :p
 
Tomorrow, or later tonight, a new version of this TL will be put up. It will go into more detail and will generally get rid of plot holes.
 
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