• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I wouldn’t say that, he was just specifically racist against people in his envisioned Mediterranean empire. Namely Ethiopians and Slavs.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      The Italian facists are split about it. Mussolini has not exactly been consistent with his beliefs but he is considerably less racist than Hitler and the Nazis. Even some of the Italian fascists denounce racism from some of the other members.