Wikipedia says that it was never proved that Mussolini was involved. Interesting. It would seem that Putin rules in a similar way. He carries out assassinations of political opponents while having plausible deniability. Whereas Hitler had enough power to just order the murder ...
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Not all dictators are equally as powerful it would seem. Stalin>Hitler> Mussolini
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Given the character differences between Northern and Southern Europeans I’m actually surprised that Mussolini had to take more care than Hitler to make sure he wasn’t connected to the deaths of political opponents. Usually Nords obssess over things like fairness and trials etc
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The thing with the US Mafia, ironically, is that pretty much since the 20s it has respected law enforcement. In Italy, they have no compunction about killing judges and prosecutors. A US mob prosecutor I knew would tell us that prosecutors and judges were explicitly off limits.
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Off limits, like they would kill you if they found out you were going to go after a prosecutor or judge. I think they actually killed one of their own who tried to kill Thomas Dewey. That’s what makes the JFK conspiracy theories involving th mob so ludicrous.
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Not ridiculous at all, if the mafia were contractors of the
@CIA - which I think is conclusively proven by now, contra@geraldposner . Recommend reading Philip F. Nelson, LBJ, The Mastermind.
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Hitler only purged one guy, Ernst Brohm. He wasn’t like Stalin who killed almost everyone who ever helped him.
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The Italians never quite played for keeps. Those Renaissance "wars" were mostly a bunch of mercenaries shadow boxing with each other.
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Italians are naturally peaceful. They aren't savages like their other Western European cousins
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Mussolini even had Vito Genovese (one of the type five scariest mobsters ever) order a hit on Carlo Tresca, an anarchist newspaper publisher in New York. So yes, the mafia and Mussolini warred with each other but they also traded notes.
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