Someone posted this link in another thread and I thought it would make a cool POD. In 1921, Benito Mussolini challenged an anti-Fascist newspaper editor named Francisco Ciccotti to a duel with swords. Mussolini injured Ciccotti badly enough that he was unable to continue the fight. The man later fled the country when Mussolini did his March on Rome. So what if the fight had gone differently? What if Mussolini dies by the hand of a Socialist newspaper editor in 1921 before taking power?
Il Duce's Duel
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1) The actual event is awesome, I love swords and wish they could have continued to have some use in modern warfare, I have to console myslef in the knowledge that bayonet charges are still seen as effective.
2) I think that Fascists are going to splinter unless someone else can take the reigns from Benny. Benny himself wins The Todyo Award for Coolest Counter-Historical Death, though it would have been more awesome if he had actually been in power at the time.
If Fascists fail to unite then their going to become a dangerous nusiance, continuing to gain employment as strike-breakers and similar jobs untill they eventually fade into history.
Humm...the Fascist movement collapse in various sect who fight each other as they fight socialist and in the end fail to grab some political power at national level and are reduced just a local entity at tops.
The problem are the socialist, in the end the king will probably must use the army to restore order and from this things will gonna be ugly for a while even if the red don't have the enough support and men to take over the nation on their own and depose the monarchy they are numerous and armed, an authoritarian goverment is probably unavoidable but a temporary thing... or the king try to ride the socialist and give his blessing to a goverment headed by them hoping to controlling it.
Internationally there are a lot of butterfly, no example for Hitler for take power in a country (even if this can't really mean that he will not try regardless), an Anshluss more difficult, probably no Abyssinia war even if any italian goverment will try to extend his influence here and less, very less help at Franco in the Spanish civil war.