CNN Stanley Tucci Searching for Italy June 4, 2024 01:16:00
>> yes. >> mussolini carried out the first expatriation of land. he took from the rich and gave to the farmers. >> mussolini thought self-sufficiency through increased food production was key to establishing italy as a world power. but in reality, what the farmers actually received were often inferior plots of land. unconcerned, mussolini pushed ahead with his expansionist ambitions, and he took to the fields himself, displaying his wheat-threshing muscle in a bid to persuade italian farmers to persevere with the land they were given. in the end, mussolini's aspirations dragged italy and her p...