WI italy got a better deal at versailles

General Zod

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Could butterfly away fascism entirely. Italy either stays liberal and christian democrats and social democratic parties gradually access to power sharing with the old elites, or goes for quiet, non-expansionistic conservative authoritarianism, much like Salazar's Portugal.
 
A Better Deal means, in all likelihood, the Allies handing Italy Dalmatia. This will infuriate the newly created Yugoslavian state, but Yugoslavia is a bizarre creation that is unlikely to survive the long haul anyhow.

Italy being democratic, allied and non-fascist is likely; Mussolini may well be a Fascist leader, but he'll be fringe and the Italians, while probably taking a bad turn in the Great Depression, probably WON'T inspire a certain Austrian Army Corporal or many other copycat movements.

Something is going to happen to Germany, although Italy may well remain democratic after its efforts in WW1 have been compensated. At worst, Italy goes somewhat autocratic but remains pro-Allied.

Dalmatia might not be great in terms of a hostile population, but Italy has a Venetian claim to the region.

If the result is really a Serbia for Italy swap, the Allies have clearly come out far ahead. But more likely, Fascism never emerges as a term, and some kind of "National Revivalism" emerges, possibly in Germany, Possibly in other nations that went autocratic in the 1920s--Poland, Austria, perhaps even Germany--with that nation as the pioneer. Note that one very possible, and very scary outcome, is that Germany goes Red--and then Europe is in serious trouble.
 
Fascism as a term probably remains and there may well be a (or many) "fascist" party(ies). Fascism comes from the fasces and implies organization and authority. The term really just means "organization" in Italian (roughly equivalent to the German "bund"). Who knows, "fascism" TTL could be a socialist or even Marxist movement! ;)
 
An absurdly large Dalmatia(half of Bosnia?) ties Italy to an economically ruinous and demographically doubtful province requiring substantial and permanent military occupation. A thin strip of coast alienates the Serbs, Croats and others without doing much for Italy.
 
This is what was claimed:

RegioniIrredenteItalia.jpg
 
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