CNN Stanley Tucci Searching for Italy October 31, 2021 04:16:00
And his fascists imposed import bans on various foreign goods. this lead to food shortages, malnutrition and a lack of wheat, which raised the prospect of italian tables with no pasta. in typical style, rather than lifting the import bans, mussolini tried to convince italians that eating pasta would make them weak, lazy and even sexually impotent and that a high protein diet would make them more productive and war-like. the campaign was clearly not a success. >> when the fascism arrived, a big part of italy is with mussolini. >> yeah. >> but 30%, 40% is against mussolini. >> yeah. in fact, pas...