Western Civilization II / Unit 16 WC2 1509 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Fascist State's Limits: Trains, Sycophants, and an Army Unready in 1939
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The idea
Fascism gave ideology and emotion, youth movements, clubs and national pride, and police who sent dissidents to prison or closed villages. Foreigners praised trains on time. The state was inefficient, its military decisions arbitrary, its officials sycophants; by nineteen thirty-nine the forces were poorly trained, equipped and led.
In practice
Internal exile in villages, like gulags.
Where people slip
The Lateran Accords are in no source; disclosed.
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