benito mussolini

PART ONE: "SCHACHMATT" [...] in any case, the report that Chancellor Dollfuss had been near-fatally shot came as a shock to Mussolini, whose wife was at that very moment entertaining the Dollfus family at Riccione on the Adriatic. The possibility of a putsch had been downplayed by the Servizio...

In timelines where Fascist Italy either joins the allies (The Footprint of Mussolini), or it remains neutral (La Transizione Imperfetta), Yugoslavia still gets invaded and partitioned by Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, however, would this actually occur should Italy wish to remain neutral...

In 1913 Hitler,Trotsky and Stalin were in Vienna. They visited the same cafe. What if Lenin and Mussolini also went there while got blown up a revolutionary ? I guess the October revolution fails. So Russia remains in WW1 preventing the Spring Offensive. No CCP either. While communism remains a...

Been thinking about a TL where after the Austrian Civil War and the new constitution, Dollfuss immediately holds a national referendum to bring back the monarchy. Here are some things I know: At some point OTL, Dollfuss planned to hold a national referendum over the Habsburgs, inviting France...

The last Eithiopian monarch, Haile Selassie (birth name Tafari Makonnen), was mired in political intrigue and turmoil long before he took the throne, having become regent of the empire in 1916. Despite running most day to day affairs during this time, however, his ability to enact any meaningful...

Hello everyone i've got a question regarding the Fall of Mussolini in 1943 so... let's say that Balbo stays as air marshal instead of being exiled to Libya thus isn't killed in 1940 and is picked as replacement to Mussolini in 43 instead of Badoglio after the vote of no confidence because he's...

As the title says. What would be things be like for Fascist Italy if they’d stayed neutral or at some point joined the allies? What would their position be in the Cold War and new alliances? Would they be roughly in the same boat as Franco or would they be closer to the west and get in on NATO...

Basically what the title says. This is speculation of course, but what would Mussolini most likely have thought of Fascist Russia, say if Fascist Russia didn't side with the Allies in a hypothetical World War 2? I'm mostly thinking of this being a scenario where Germany becomes communist or...

In most of the Western world, the mainstream perception is that Hitler was history's greatest monster, while Mussolini was his bumbling sidekick. Your challenge is to have this be the other way around.

Let's say Victor Emmanuel III decides to say "no" to Mussolini and his Blackshirts, and signs Fanta's order to install a state of emergency within Rome. What happens then? How do the Blackshirts respond? What happens to Mussolini, and to fascism as a whole? What butterflies would occur beyond Italy?

In OTL Bulgaria joined the axis mainly because mister Adolf needed to pass by to help italy in Greece( war started in October), he could go through Yugoslavian macedonia but the terrain was mainly mountains so it would be very hard to do so. Otherwise Boris 3 politics was to keep neutrality and...

Benito Mussolini: L'Unione Sindacalista Nazionalista - the Prinipate Chapter One: Idea di Rivoluzione The failure of the Socialist Revolution in Russia has shown us that we were wrong the nation has never disappeared. We used to believe that the concept was totally without substance. Instead...

Suppose that Mussolini has a stroke or is assassinated somewhere around 1939, before the Battle of France. Italo Balbo or someone else becomes duce, and commits to keeping Italy out of war, noticing the poor performance Italy had in WWI. What are the effects on a neutral Italy in WW2? Will the...

Allow me start off with stating that I am in no way a proponent or even an apologist for the man or his regime, I only wish to play ‘Devils Advocate’ here. But supposing that during the state visit in ‘37 to Germany Mussolini takes a personnel dislike to Hitler and his entourage and so in turn...