Western media be like "This communist revolution that educated and uplifted it's people was an evil regime filled with propaganda"
"But this monarch that kept literal slaves and drank the blood of peasants is truely one of the great leaders of history."
"You absolutely have to hand it to them. The trains ran on time"
What gets me is that that isn't even true. The Italian fascists were famously bad at day-to-day governing in Italy.
By like the mid 1930s the nazis had already turned the German economy into a fucked up ponzi scheme, and the Italian fascists had to create the second most publicly owned economy in the world because they had a government policy of buying every failing italian company and then mandating that nothing change about how the company was run.
What gets me is that that isn't even true. The Italian fascists were famously bad at day-to-day governing in Italy.
The train thing came from them trying to solve train delays by cutting maintenance schedules and instituting absurd penalties for the train engineers if they didn't arrive on schedule.
The result was more accidents, more breakdowns, and more overall delays, but they were still just beating their chests and declaring they made the trains faster.
It sucks that italian fascism lead to German fascism and all the attendant horrors because if you could just do it in a vacuum and it just consisted of a bunch of dudes named Vincenzo and Giancarlo breaking trains to prove how masculine they are while everything falls apart around them it would be pretty funny to watch
Mama mia
is that that isn't even true.
My favorite part of this is how the Germans relied on trains to move Tiger tanks because they couldn't drive long distances on their own. So when the Allies carpet bombed all the German rail yards, the Germans couldn't move tanks to where they were needed. When rail lines were open, they prioritized the Holocaust and sending people to death camps over military objectives (such as making sure your troops have ammo or food. Those are obviously unimportant).
Nazi ideology is a death cult. People considered extermination of undesirables the primary objective of the war, rather than the war they were actually fighting. Whenever you hear "the trains ran on time," it's (knowingly or unknowingly) referring to getting cattle cars full of human beings into concentration camps.
thats crazy. i thought trains ran on coal. one that runs on time?? maybe the nazis were scientifically advanced
that is literally just "Sunless Skies".