Mussolini was a madman, and in this he was no different from Hitler. Mussolini was born in a family of blacksmiths in the province of Forlì, Italy, and was deeply inherited by his father, Mussolini was born tall and large, but he did not use this good strength to help his neighbors or help the family, on the contrary, he used this natural advantage to fight and pick quarrels and provoke trouble.

Like every born bully, Mussolini was adept at bullying the weak, and he showed no mercy to anyone who dared to offend him. Rather than listening to tedious lessons in the classroom every day, dominating the school campus is clearly more in line with Mussolini's personality. At the last moment he walked out of the campus, he uttered a bold statement: "I want to make this world tremble!" ”

Mussolini and Hitler have many similarities, such as not sitting very firmly in ordinary positions, they are both young literary and artistic people who love art, and the most important thing is that they have found their best positions in the political party. After the end of the First World War, the pattern of the World Realm became more impetuous and chaotic. Although the end of the war seemed to have brought a semblance of peace to the nations, it was at the height of the conflict between ideas and the old and new systems.

No one knows which road their country should continue to walk on, which road leads to a better future, which road is a dead end, there was no forerunner at that time, all this is a mystery, people can only use their own enthusiasm and ideals to open the way for their motherland.

Hitler and Mussolini were such idealists that it is difficult to argue that they established fascist dictatorships only for their own self-interest. On the contrary, the original intentions of these two people seem to be good, and they both strive for the interests of their own nation, but the result is the opposite.

This is like today's terrorists, who often show a kind of joy in their hearts when they take the lives of countless people with bombs or other means, because they sincerely feel that their actions are right, that they are fulfilling their justice, but they do not know that this idealized justice is actually just a beautiful cloak and an excuse for violence.

With such a beautiful pretext, Hitler and Mussolini, two fanatical idealists, established fascist dictatorships in their own countries.

There are many similarities between these two buddies. They both seem to love art. At first, they all seemed mediocre, they didn't finish their studies, they all soared in the party careers, they all participated in the First World War and they all hung up. All have carried out coups. They were all arrested and imprisoned. After coming out, they all became prime ministers.

But even so, the relationship between Hitler and Mussolini was not as good as outsiders thought, especially when Hitler had just come to power. The relationship between the two is far from harmonious. After Hitler came to power, he was ready to annex Austria, but Austrian President Taulfis and Mussolini had a good personal relationship, so Austrian President Taulfis asked Mussolini to mediate, so Mussolini invited Hitler to Rome for a meeting.

The atmosphere was not very friendly, and Mussolini put pressure on Hitler and warned him very clearly not to lift a single Austrian finger. In this regard, Hitler nodded frequently, and when he got on the plane and returned home, Hitler commented to Mussolini: "This guy is a madman."

Hitler then went on to annex Austria and assassinated Taulfis in his place in Schuschliger. The intention of this act is obvious, Hitler is getting rid of the opposition in Austria to achieve his own plan to annex Austria, and this plan made Mussolini very unhappy, after the end of the First World War, Italy, as the victorious power, has always claimed to be the protector of Austria, Hitler's action is obviously to break ground on Tai Sui's head and pluck the tiger's buttocks.

In order to give Hitler a little color, Mussolini angrily waved his army north, and carried out a deterrent military deployment on the border with the strength of four divisions. Due to various considerations and assumptions, Hitler was really frightened in front of these 4 Italian divisions, perhaps because he had not seen the essence of the Italian army's paper paste at that time, or maybe he didn't want to turn his face with this big brother, and finally Hitler put aside the matter of swallowing Austria.

It was only later that the relationship between the two careerists eased as the exchanges between them increased, and they finally shook hands and formed an alliance, especially after the two jointly supported another dictator in Spain, Franco, they could be regarded as real "confidants".

When Germany blitzed Poland and the Second World War broke out, the Italian ambitions began to be exposed as the German army continued to win. In addition to Mussolini's ambitions for France, he also coveted his neighbor Greece,

In other words, this Greece is not a fuel-efficient lamp, after the outbreak of World War II, Greek Prime Minister Giannis. Metaxas said it wanted to remain neutral. However, Greece came under increasing pressure from the Italian side, especially on June 15, 1940, when the torpedo of the Italian submarine Defilno hit the Greek cruiser Eli, and the contradictions between the two sides quickly surfaced.

In fact, the reason why Mussolini was in a hurry to wrestle with Greece was not only because he had long had extravagant hopes for Greece in terms of territory, but also because Mussolini was angry! What is he angry about? That's because Mussolini was ignored by Hitler, who did not ask about his war policy in waging wars against Poland and especially France, so Mussolini was annoyed.

Mussolini needed one thing or a war to make his presence known, to show the Germans what he was capable of, and to establish his independence, so he chose Greece, because in Mussolini's view, Greece was an easy country to overcome.

It's like Mussolini to Rudolph. Hess put it: "Hitler always told me to accept the facts, and this time I will return the favor, and he will see in the newspapers the news of my conquest of Greece." ”

He wanted to match the victory of the war against Greece with Germany's military success, because the elimination of Greece, the traditional ally of Hellenistic England, would also be a big blow to the British. Dominated by this thinking, on August 15, 1940, Mussolini and his advisers decided to invade Greece.

On the morning of August 28, 1940, the Italian ambassador Gazas. Erunyumar submitted to Metaxas, which lasted only three hours, to allow the Italian army to enter the territory of Greece in order to occupy some strategic points, and Metaxas refused to accept the last disc, but before he refused, the Italian army had already invaded Greece through the border with Albania, and the main direction of attack was directed towards the Bandus Mountains near the city of Ioannina, with some initial progress, and the Italian army crossed the Karastir River.

But Greece is not a country fighting, because it is an ally of Britain, and Britain has important interests in the Balkans, so Britain has no intention of staying out of it from the beginning. Britain announced its aid to Greece as early as 1939, stating its determination to maintain the independence of Greece or Romania: "We will use all our power to secure the Greek or Romanian government." ”

The first reinforcements were squadrons of the Royal Air Force, which arrived in Greece in October 1940. With the permission of the Greek government, British troops landed on Crete on 31 October to defend the Gulf of Suda, allowing the Greek government to move the 5th Cretan Division to the mainland.

Commander-in-Chief of the Greek Army, Alexander. General Papagos even asked Britain to provide Greece with nine well-equipped divisions and sufficient air support, but because of the fierce fighting in northern Africa, it could only provide less than one division at once, an offer that the Greeks refused, believing that this would prompt Germany to attack and Greece would not receive enough aid, and they asked Britain to provide immediate assistance if the German army crossed the Danube from Romania into Bulgaria. Even so, the Greek army quickly defeated the Italian invaders, drove them back to Albania, and the Greek army even counterattacked Italy proper.

Within three weeks, the Greek invaders were cleared, the Greek army pursued the victory, and although the Italian army was defeated and reinforced, the mountainous areas of southern Albania still fell into the hands of the Greek army.

After several weeks of bitter winter, the Italian army launched a massive counteroffensive across the entire front on January 4, 1941. Although the Italian army had an advantage in numbers and equipment, due to the insufficient allocation of military resources by Mussolini and his generals in the battle, the misjudgment of the autumn weather, the lack of suddenness of the attack and the lack of support from the Bulgarians, and even the problems in basic equipment such as the lack of distribution of winter uniforms, and Mussolini's refusal to accept the advice of the military-industrial advisers, the counteroffensive was not effective, and after a week of fighting and paying the price of 12,000 casualties, it still failed to achieve the intended strategic goal.

In desperation, Mussolini decided to stop the offensive and prepare to withdraw his troops from Albania, and at the same time asked his old friend Hitler for help, hoping that Germany could send troops to the Balkans to help Italy eliminate the combined Greek and British forces.

In fact, Hitler did not want Italy to provoke Greece so early, as early as August 1940 Germany was studying how to deal with the Soviet Union, and Hitler meant to launch an attack on the Soviet Union before October. However, Mussolini's private actions completely destroyed Hitler's plans, and what made Hitler most depressed was that Italy had not won the war yet, forcing Germany to enter the war. It's really not afraid of enemies as ruthless as wolves, but also stupid teammates like pigs! (To be continued......)