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Mussolini's Participation in the War Is a Fiasco

Mussolini unlike Hitler really isn't a detail man when it comes to the army and Mussolini essentially is a headline writer. He also believed he could speak fluent French and German so whenever he was conducting treaty negotiations would refuse to have interpreters which at exactly the consequences you would expect their participation in the war is a fiasco. After all there's a bit of chaos in there being a bit of a mess as we return to our hero now for returning to um returning toOur hero now in his uh he was 54 he kind of approaching old age actually or a young architectYeah 54 was like 54 was quite credible young architect and he was surveying in Florence which had been pretty significantly damaged

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