The Footprint of Mussolini - TL
He was trialed and sentenced to prison for life altough death penalty too was planned but finally it was decided that he sits rest of his life in Alcatraz. But when officials were transporting Wallace to plane one neo-Nazi shot him. Wallace's corpse was unceremonially cremated and ashes scattered to Chesapeake Bay.
Probably Italy can keep most of Mussolini's conquests. Definitely Italy lost Ethiopia and possibility Somalia too. Italy might manage to keep Eritrea. Libya too will surely remain as part of Italy. Probably the country can keep Albania and Montenegro when them have pretty low population and probably strongly italised. Dalmatia probably will remain as part of Italy. I don't think that Croatia is able if even willingful take that. Slovenia definitely too will be part of Italy when Slovenes are culturally almost extinct.
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The places that have been most "Italianized" will likely have something akin to the OTL Special Relationship.
Libya will most likely be the strongest contender, considering how it is majority Italian.
Libya is now an integral part of Italy. As Italian as Savoie, Lazio or Sardinia.
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It is possible that a Catalonian-style autonomy movement might emerge in Libya.
BTW @Sorairo , has Mussolini and his successors resolved Italy's North-South divide? Is Sicily still poorer than other parts of Italy?
I would imagine with Libya being part of Italy with settlers, modernisation and all, that the North-South divide has simply shifted furhter south then TTL, or?
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The South has been quite depopulated, so while there still is a divide between north and south Italy, a lot of the tension is gone and it’s more akin to upstate New York and NYC.
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By depopulated, do you mean much of Sicily has moved to Africa for a better life?
No ones dead - it’s just that there are less children because living standards are way higher. Overall ‘Pheocenians’ make up just under a third of Libya in 1975. Italians, Jews and other Whites round off the list. Birthrate is about the same as the White average by now.
There were always more Italians than "Libyans" there anyway, even in OTL, at least until WW2 ended.
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Libya seems almost...nice compared to OTL.
But then you remember the country was a victim of what was basically genocide under Mussolini.
And you wonder if that prosperity and stability was actually worth it...
I foresee Cyprus becoming a flashpoint... You have an island inhabited by Greeks and Turks mainly, belonging to Britain and you have in their mother countries fascist regimes who would be eager (especially when there is no strong Italian leadership in the RA) to instigate some form of rebellion in the island. We will see probably a 3-way conflict;
Greek Cypriots will be fighting British
Turkish Cypriots will be fighting British
Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots will be fighting each other.
What a mess!
And of course, the fascist regime in Greece will probably collapse rather soon.
Greek Cypriots will be fighting British
Turkish Cypriots will be fighting British
Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots will be fighting each other.
What a mess!
And of course, the fascist regime in Greece will probably collapse rather soon.
It would be ironic seeing an Italianized Gaddafi become Governor of Libya or heck lead a Neo-Fascist Movement.
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Would a Cyprus under British sovereignty go through something akin to the troubles?
I think it was mentioned in an earlier chapter that Cyprus was in fact going through a campaign of Troubles-esque terrorism.