Italian civil war starts 1921/1922

in the face of groving fashist and squadrist agression the italian comunist and socialist parties decide to stand united against the fashist movement, despite the schism in 1921, fortifying the preexistant united front
after sarzana, just as mussolini reorganises the blackshirts, the PSI and PCdI rally their numbers, send directives to all comities and subcomities to unify and coordinate the workers resistance, and send an apel to lenjin for more arms
more sindical militias form and take ower factories, and by party directives more organisations such as the guardie rosse and arditi are formed
firence, empoli, parma, genova, trieste and numerous other burgs and factory towns put out the red or often the red and black flags
in and around rijeka and opatia the republica sovietica di fiume is formed and istra splits into peices as the left, backed when in need by the slavic population, resists dannuncio with arms
most of the movement is spontaneous and the PSI/PCdI olnly have to put their squables aside for a moment and direct the resistance
what seemed to mussolini as a quick fight to power turns into an open war on the streets, in the hills, and in the forests
in sicilly the local separatist movement joins the fight and mafia backed partisans take mountain vilages and there is fighting in the citty streets
in sardinia the indipendezia republica di sardinia is proclaimed after the last fashists are shot in the back of the head and disposed of
the king sends the army to calm things but in numerous places the soldiers side with the population and there is major desertion
at first it still seems as if the fashist are winning but a series of losses, mainly due to general chaos and underestimation of the oponent, make the left wictorious in seweral regions including toscana, many towns in veneto, friuli, liguria, parts of puglia, and emilia romagna especially parma, even parts of lacio

fearing the rise of comunism france and england openly endorce mussolini and send arms and money, WWI is still a sore wound on european economy and in the largest part there is a tendency to stand aside and limit action to political suport of fashism
on the other side the soviet union sends arms by all possible chanels and help comes from yugoslavia, both from the comunist party, but also, covertly by the monarchy, seeing this as a oportunity to undermine italian ambitions thowards dalmacia, while at the same time cracking down on its own comunists

by 1925 the war is still on
who wins where?
any further ideas?
why not make maps?
bonus points if istra sardegna sicilia napoli and rome, and possibly milano become indipendant

what would germany do if it went on till 1933
and how would this affect the weymar republick?
 
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I'd love one where the socialists go into exile in Sardinia with the fleet and the treasury. They are promptly followed by most of the university faculty and the skilled workers. Sardinia uber alles!
 
well it would be most interesting to se the development of sardinia if it is not ocupied by france or italy
gramsci would of most likely been thrown out of PCdI sooner or later and possibly returned to native sardinia where he would ider become an important perhaps even leading member of the local comunist party, or, if sardinia was nationalist, no doubt start another revolutionary movement

one way or the other a larger conflict beetven the left and right in italy would of increased the chances of gramsci surviving, which would be a huge thing in terms of development of comunist ideas and the adaptation of marxism to reality in wich people lived

howewer i doubt the socialists could get their hands on the treasury, even the more moderate part of them
 
oh comon for the sake of the holy stool sample, somebody, anibody?
forca bandiere rosse
andiamo giovani alla riscossa bandiera rossa rivincera!
or giovinezza giovinezza primavera di bellezza if you swing that way

i hoped id learn somfing... like i dono, gramsci could newer get trown out of PCdI becos he knew such and such, or... parma could newer stay leftist becouse italo balbo did so and so... comon someone post somfin

nema nijedan talijan ovdje?
 
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