Subject: Re: How Do We Resist The Corrupted....
It's 2023 Dope. Wiki cites it's sources so you can look at them.

Yep. They have become really good at citations.

And one citation I can't give is that I have forgotten more about WWII (and the lead-up to it) than most people will ever know. It was a hobby of mine when I was younger. I read about it voraciously. When I had to do book reports, I made them books about the War as much as I could. The wiki is correct, Dr Dope1 is wrong.

I still have a lot of my books. Like the entire Time/Life series about WWII. Prelude to War covers Mussolini, and the rise of fascism, and it's morphing into Nazism (which it considers related, but distinct from fascism because of the Nordic/Aryan mythos around Hitler). I just pulled it out and skimmed the bits about Mussolini in particular. It confirms what you and I and the wiki are saying. The scholarship has not changed since the publishing of this series, apparently.

I would say right-wing folks like to try to rewrite history. And they do. The left doesn't so much rewrite it, as condemn historical figures based on modern standards (e.g. Jefferson owned slaves). Interestingly, both want Jefferson either reviled or removed, but for different reasons. Both positions are wrong, IMO. History is what it is, and we shouldn't hide it -or contort it- just because we don't like it.