#talking about italy 💚🤍❤️

[italeean]

Hi, would you mind sharing a little perspective about Benito Musolini (a prominant figure from Italy). I just learned about him at school, and when my teacher said he's from Italy, I immediately thinks of your account! Tbh My teacher haven't shared any facts about Musolini (He just mentioned that Musolini was a prominent figure from Italy w/o any further explanation). If you know something about him, please do share! I believe your explanation will be the most authentic (since you grew up and receive education in literally Italy) Thank you!! ... Also, Imagine if one day you stumbled upon a tickle fic with Musolini in it (as lee or ler) how would you feel about it? lol (this question is so random I'm sorry)

WARNING: SUPER LONG POST UNDER THE CUT

So... since you said you don't know any facts about this "person" and your teacher didn't do a great job at talking about him (he made him sound like a positive character from what you told me), I'll start with a little history lesson

WWI ended in 1918 with the victory of USA, England, France and Italy (who was initially allied with Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire). However, Italians didn't get what they wanted (like Istria) because they were labeled as "unreliable" for being allied with Austria and Germany before joining WWI on the other side. Basically, at the beginning, Italy "made friends" with Austria to get back the areas of Trento and Trieste from the Empire with diplomacy, but when the Great War broke out, they decided to take that land by force.

Anyway, being disrespected after winning the war caused a lot of discontent in the population, even among the younger ones (because yes, even 17-year-old guys had to go to war...). WWI was the first war to be fought with technological weapons and gas (mustard gas). Compared to the "romantic" kind of war, the one where there were heroes that distinguished themselves, this kind of war caused a much more significant psychological damage, also caused by the shell shock, and Italians felt like they were made fun of because they got injured, invalid or traumatized for nothing. This discontent is called "vittoria mutilata" (mutilated victory).

In this climate of economic crisis and deep instability, Benito Mussolini became popular with his complaints of how things were going and about the "vittoria mutilata". He even founded the movement of Fasci Italiani di Combattimento in 1919, which became PNF, or Partito Nazionale Fascista (Fascist National Party) in 1921, and the 28th of October 1922, he and his blackshirts (his followers, who got that name because they always wore black shirts) marched on Rome.

The king could have declared the state of siege and made the army intervene, but he let Mussolini do what he wanted, because he decided that Fascism was better than Communism (whose echoes were arriving from Russia, which would've officially become USSR 2 months later). However, dictatorship didn't arrive just like that. There were held elections... although they were basically not democratic and fascists "casually" won. Giacomo Matteotti investigated and was ready to present the evidence he had gathered to the Parliament, but the 10th of June 1924, the day before the scheduled presentation of said proof, he disappeared and was found dead.

I won't go into too much detail about his political maneuvers he took all the power with, I'll just focus on how his political choices affected the population.

1925: The government proclaims the Leggi Fascistissime (Ultra-Fascist Laws..?). With these laws, the President of the Council (Mussolini) became the Chief of the Government, every non-fascist political organization was disbanded, the police got more power and was free to act however they wanted (basically the George Floyd case was the normality here), censor was legalized and a Special Court was created to condemn people who were politically dangerous for the integrity of the government. Death penalty and exile were also reintroduced. The elections were extremely controlled: the government itself presented the list of candidates with no possibility of integration and the votes were made by applause in the squares (if it doesn't make sense, it's normal)

1926: Quota 90, it was an economic maneuver to give more value to Lira (Italian currency before Euro), which turned into a flop.

1929: Patti Lateranensi (Lateran Treaty). Basically it's an agreement between the Fascism and the Church to make sure religion doesn't intervene against Mussolini. In exchange, Catholicism becomes the State Religion and it also becomes a subject at school. This compromise with another authority and the presence of the king makes Fascism an imperfect totalitarianism because Mussolini, also known as Il Duce (The Leader, from Latin), wasn't the only authority in the country.

But what happens in the world? The crisis of 1929 hits the world and in 1933 Hitler wins the elections, democratically I think, and at Hindenburg's death in 1934 he also gets the position of President of Republic. The Nazi dictatorship begins.

In the beginning, Mussolini and Hitler aren't even interested in each other, they get closer only after some events.

1935: Italy invades Ethiopia with a scandalous war because Mussolini thinks Italy should have colonies as well, but the Society of Nations (UNO's ancestor) disapproves and Italy receives sanctions. In response to that, Il Duce decided to switch to the autarchic economy, which meant no more import-export and absolute self-sufficiency. Foreign words were banished from the vocabulary or were "italianized", and foreign drinks and foods were changed with Italian variations. For example, coffee was made with macerated chards. In this context of tensions with France and England, Mussolini got closer to Hitler.

1936: Civil war breaks out in Spain and Mussolini sends troops to help Francisco Franco, the soon-to-be dictator, take control of the nation.

1937: Italy joins the alliance between Germany and Japan (they became the Axis)

1938: The racist laws are proclaimed in Italy, following the example of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, and antisemitism spreads in the nation. Some ghettos and concentration camps are also built, and you can still visit Fossoli.

1939: WW2 breaks out, but Italy still doesn't participate; Mussolini will join only a year later because, according to him "we needed a few hundreds of corpses to throw on the peace table". (Which meant we needed to sacrifice some soldiers to say "Hey, we participated, too! We want our share of whatever there is to gain!"). Let me tell you all this: we weren't ready for that war. Our equipments had never been upgraded since WWI and Italy always needed Hitler's help to finish any kind of war campaign that was started. Many people also died during the russian winter, which was brutal, and in the end we sided with the Allies when the US started the invasion (or the liberation) of Italy in 1943, after the arrest of Mussolini.

25/04/1945: The Allies finally free Italy from the Nazi-fascists (yes, the nazists had started the invasion of Italy the 8th of September 1943)

28/04/1945: Mussolini is found by someone partigiani (the ones who always made resistance to the fascism and even helped the Allies during the occupation of Italy) and gets shot.

After this ✨️not-so-amazing✨️ history lesson based on my knowledge from my years of high school, I'll share my opinions

I'm a progressist, so I'm very far from the extreme right political orientation

People still complain about how we are still under the influence of the US... guess what? If our Duce hadn't joined the war in 1940, we would've come out of this as honorable winners

My great grandfather nearly lost both his feet due to gangrene caused by the serious burns during the war in Ethiopia, a war than gave Italy nothing more than a stupid title

The only decent thing Mussolini did was La Battaglia del Grano (The Wheat Battle). He reclaimed some marshy areas and made them cultivated, but it was still insufficient for autarchy

Mussolini supported racism, which I absolutely do not believe in, censorship, authoritarianism, he forced Italians to be catholic, he punished people publicly by making them drink castor oil (a very strong purge)

The police or the blackshirts could come at your place and beat you to a pulp or even kill you if you were suspected of being against the regime

Women were given an economic incentive if they had children. The more babies they had, the bigger the incentive became. It meant that women were only supposed to be mothers, without being able to choose to remain single.

Homosexuals were directly dragged to the concentration camps

I don't wanna think about what happened to disabled people and kids during those ages...

Would you really think I'd want a world like this?

And would you think I'd ever read a fanfiction about such a shitty man?

And that's all I have to say 😸 I hope I didn't bore you all with this talk, but I felt like this was the bare minimum to make you all understand what Italy went through all these years, in a dictatorship that lasted 20 years.

Guys, just remember one thing: if you're going through a crisis in your country and a candidate to the leadership or someone who claims to be a rebel makes promises of making your country great, putting your own country above any other nation, restoring the economy in a short time or anything that sounds dreamy, they're probably fooling you. And by the way, if every country thought only for themselves, the world and the global society would probably collapse; also, I don't wanna live in a world of egoists so please, let's choose cooperation and integration over autarchy. I can guarantee that it brings no good in the long term.

I know yours was just curiosity, and I'm happy you asked me about this. Don't take my final questions as a sign of anger, I just think they are a good conclusion to this kind of talk 🥰

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[useless-catalanfacts]

Hi! I wanted to share a story that happened to me some time ago. I am an Italian uni student and, when I was attending high-school there, my school created a writing contest. We had to create a short story about freedom (they quoted a song from the Italian songwriter Giorgio Gaber, who was one of our greatest songwriters and also a leftist activist). I wrote a story set during the Spanish Civil war and it was an homage to the Catalan people who fought for freedom and against fascism. I remember studying a lot to make it as historically accurate as possible. It had been miraculously lost after I submitted it to the board. I was very mad, and I still am today. There are fascists everywhere we go. They couldn't silence me tho. One day in 2017 in my class we could debate over different political events of the year and I talked about the referendum and the Catalan situation. They couldn't stop me because my teacher at the time fought the school fascists too. We had been called all kind of names, but in the end we got back at them. We couldn't change much but it was a start.

Thank you 💚🤍❤️

Every person bringing it up is so helpful, because it means more people will hear about it. It's heartwarming to hear of people showing solidarity from abroad.

I remember around 2017-2019 I heard about youth leftist organizations in Italy raising awareness about Catalonia. I think Italy might be the country where we saw this the most, it bring us so much encouragement. With Italy, I think we can understand each other well because of the common past with fascism and the still ongoing fight against it.

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Cuore pulsante della Costiera Amalfitana, antica Repubblica Marinara, Amalfi è ricca di bellezze naturali, storiche ed artistiche che non potete assolutamente perdervi.

D’obbligo una visita al Duomo che dedicato a Sant’Andrea Apostolo patrono di Amalfi, è stato realizzato in stile romanico e si erge su una suggestiva scalinata al di sopra dell’omonima piazza.

Da lì potrete addentrarvi nelle suggestive stradine che percorrono la città e dove potrete scoprire i vari prodotti e le prelibatezze tipiche di Amalfi.

Importanti anche il Museo della Carta e quello della Bussola attraverso i quali potrete scoprire la particolare storia di quest’antica e interessante città.

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[italeean]

What's the difference between Italian and France? Like I Kno you guys are different but I meant like,

Usually Italian makes the pasta dish and the France make the bakery pastry things.

I swear this may sounds stereotyping but I promise I'm not a racist, I'm just curious and want to know, I know I can search it online but this is just a genuine question. Feel free to ignore this if you want, no hard feelings.

I'm sure you meant well, but yeah... this is stereotyping. But I don't expect you to be a connoisseur of every culture in the world, and I appreciate your humility in asking to someone instead of googling it and maybe stumbling upon a website that only talks about stereotypes.

So... France isn't renowned only for pastries, it's also famous for prestigious wine brands, cheese, escargot... BUT... I've never been to France, so if someone French sees this and wants to add info about French culinary traditions, I'd be happy to learn more. Just please, let's stay respectful of one another.

About Italy, which I'm more informed about 😅 It's true that we eat a lot of pasta in many different sauces, but we also have many pastries and baked goods ourselves, like pastiera, pitta, diplomatico, crustoli, cannoli, sfogliatelle, sbrisolona, cassata, tiramisù, babà, amaretti, castagnole, frappe, zeppole, pandoro, panettone... and many more!

You see... we can't talk about "Italians do this" and "French do that" because that kind of talk is usually stereotypical, and trust me, French and Italian people have many wonderful differences ^_^✨️

And don't worry, you probably had some wrong concepts in mind, but you didn't sound racist at all! You didn't mean to insult us so you're good, and it was fun replying to you and thinking about all those delicacies 🥰😻

[italeean]

I hope you don’t mind me asking, but what would you think of an Italian burrito? Like a tortilla with spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, meatballs, and cheese or other things to put on spaghetti inside and wrapped up?

Umm... the tortilla contains carbs, and spaghetti also contain carbs... I think I'd want a protein inside the burrito... and meatballs might easily roll and fall, but if you're careful or shape the meat into another format, that could work!! Although I can't guarantee on the taste

HOWEVER, I've never had a burrito so I can't give an accurate opinion 😅 Let's put it like this, it's something that doesn't sound exactly heavenly, but I'd taste it to have a non-biased opinion!! If you try it, please let me know because now I'm curious 😸😹

[italeean]

Which Pasta for macaroni is the best?

The curly pasta

The ribbon shape pasta

The normal macaroni pasta shape

Or any other shape??

As an Italian people, What is your opinion? The people want to know.

*talk in tv reporter accent/way*

*grabs the mic*

So... actually I need you to rephrase that question, because I don't think I understood it 😅

Maccheroni (the correct italian term for macaroni) is already a type of pasta, this one to be precise 👇

Then, with maccheroni, you can make various recipes

Also... idk how much this will shock all of you, but mac 'n cheese is NOT an Italian dish, and I've honestly never tried it either 😅

It was inspired by an Italian medieval recipe book, but the recipe as you all know it was published in an old English cookbook