• Lend-Lease The following is a list of RSI ministers. This discontent led to severe frictions between the Party, led by the now-powerful and beloved Secretary Italo Debalti, and the State organs and bodies, supported and backed by powerful undertakings and even by some communist infiltrated, who sought the return of class struggle after the ultimate destruction of corporatist system.  • Gothic Line But, since the Allies had never recognised the RSI, Graziani's signature was not required at Caserta. The Italian Social Republic was deeply involved into the deep crisis faced by the Yugoslav Socialist Federal Republic; in order to alleviate internal tensions, the new Serbian leadership of the Federal Republic emphasized the sub-national Croatian irredentism against the portion of Dalmatia held by Italy. The IRI was founded in 1930 during the early stages of Great Depression. Some forms of self-government and of internal autonomy are granted to the Autonomous Republics, which have a local defence force (integrated with the Italian military) and an autonomous and local Fascist Party and Republican Guard Command. The Italian ecomnomy is dominated by three major public bodies, which enact the Government policies: the IRI (Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale, Institute for Industrial Reconstruction), the IMI (Istituto Mobiliare Italiano, Italian Banking Institute) and the BPI (Banca Pubblica per l'Investimento, Investment Public Bank, for small and medium enterprises). This compenetration is ensured through both mandatory Party membership and overall Party dominance over security party and state bodies. The Duce of the Republic is the Head of State.  • Syrmian Front Italy kept making its contribution to the European culture, giving birth to the Baroque Style. Mussolini claimed that he had never totally abandoned his left-wing influences, insisting he had attempted to nationalize property in 1939–1940 but had been forced to delay such action for tactical reasons related to the war. The Italian Air Force in 2008 had a strength of 102,559 and operated more than 600 aircraft.  • Pointblank ), informally known as the Republic of Salò (Italian language: Repubblica di Salò • Yugoslavia The main instrument through the CSO operates is OVRA, tasked with the protection of the Regime and the carrying out of independent intelligence service. Italy is subdivided into 110 provinces (province), governed by Prefects and Provincial Delegations, and 8,100 municipalities (comuni), governed by Podestà (mayors) and Town Councils and Rome, which is subject to a special administration. The Germans disarmed the Italian troops and took over all of the Italian Army's materials and equipment. In the 18th century, as a result of the War of Spanish Succession, Austria replaced Spain as the dominant foreign power, while the House of Savoy emerged as a major regional power expanding to Piedmont and Sardinia.  • Cryptography Following the Plebiscite of 1991, the institutional structure was heavily changed, marking the return to the unitary leading of the State under the new Duce, the former Political Secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Debalti and recuperating several early Fascist ideas, such as Sergio Panunzio's views on Parliament and on relationship to be recovered between Corporations and State Trade Unions and the State itself.  • Market Garden  • Moscow The recent history of Italy includes the development of an opera tradition that has spread throughout the world; prior to the development of Italian identity or a unified Italian state, the Italian peninsula contributed to important innovations in music including the development of musical notation and Gregorian chant.  • Manchuria This time it was Bersaglieri of the 1st Italian "Italia" Infantry Division. the Division of Criminal Police, which fights against serious organized crime and has a strong analytic, criminologist and intellectual base, and which controls also the Central Investigations Service, which in turn fights against the most dangerous and harmful criminal cases, and the "usual police", whose purpose is to protect the society from unserious crimes.  • Indonesian National Revolution, RSI soldier with signature "M" monogram on lapels and wearing a "samurai" magazine-holding vest for his, This article does not contain any citations or references. While the Germans formally recognised the new status quo in Italian politics, they intervened by sending some of the best units of the Wehrmacht to Italy.  •  • Poland The coastal regions have mild winters and warm and generally dry summers, although lowland valleys can be quite hot in summer. Far from crushing the individual, the Fascist State multiplies his energies, just as in a regiment a soldier is not diminished but multiplied by the number of his fellow soldiers. 1), Fascist Italy and the Jews: Myth versus Reality, History of World War II by region and country, Sarawak, Brunei, Labuan, and British North Borneo, Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, German prisoners of war in the United States, Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, Japanese prisoners of war in World War II, Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic?oldid=4972917, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. These Italian volunteers were equipped and trained by the British. In 1939, Italy occupied Albania, a de facto protectorate for decades, and stayed out World War II. The battle was fought in the Apennines. In the meantime the Germans had rescued Mussolini from his mountain prison and restored him in the north as ruler of the “ Italian Social Republic,” a last-ditch puppet Fascist regime based in Salò on Lake Garda. The Lombard reign was absorbed into the Frankish Empire by Charlemagne in the late 8th century. Most folk musics are localized, and unique to a region or city. In Sardinia, the former Byzantine provinces became independent states, although most of the island was under Genoese or Pisan control until the Aragonese conquered it in the 15th century. Head of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs: Minister of Labour: Giuseppe Spinelli in 1945. However, as a result of his spending policies, the Italian national debt skyrocketed during the Craxi era, and corruption widespread. Around 25 April 1945, Mussolini's republic came to an end. [4] He declared, "It is not the regime that has betrayed the monarchy, it is the monarchy that has betrayed the regime." [11] After World War II, Italy was rapidly transformed from an agriculture based economy into one of the world's most industrialized nations and a leading country in world trade and exports. Nowadays the Italian Empire (Impero Italiano) is a community of semi-autonomous countries, although the only fully sovereign member is the Italian Social Republic. Italian Social Republic poster saying: "Germany is truly your friend". The Duce is elected by the convened Parliament and remains in office until his resignation. Italian states (1920 -) =The Socialist Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica Socialista d'Italia), is a country in Southern Europe and is situated on the northwest of the Italian Peninsula.It shares a land border to the north with Switzerland, to the west with the Commune of France, to the east with the Italian Republic, and to the South with the Papal State and the Two Sicilies. Each ethnic land, formerly being a Colony, has the status of Autonomous Republic: the Italian Empire comprises: as well as other special territories, directly administered by Rome, by the military or by the National Fascist Party. The Frankish kings also helped the formation of the Papal States in central Italy, although the Papacy effectively controlled only Latium. They were executed on 11 January 1944. As the situation became desperate in January and February 1945, with Allied forces in control of most of Italy, Mussolini declared that "he would fight to the last Italian" and spoke of turning Milan into the "Stalingrad of Italy", where Fascism would make its last glorious fight. The failed war effort left Mussolini humiliated at home and abroad as a "sawdust Caesar". Troops of the Decima Flottiglia MAS (elite Italian frogman corps) fought primarily as a land unit of the RSI.  • Morgenthau Plan [note 2] The Po, Italy's longest river (652 km/405 mi), flows from the Alps on the western border with France and crosses the Padan plain on its way to the Adriatic Sea.  • Total war  • Mariana and Palau [3][10] The region identified by Germany as Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland that included Udine, Gorizia, Trieste, Pola, and Fiume were de facto incorporated into Reichsgau Kärnten and administered by its Gauleiter Friedrich Rainer. Smaller units like the Black Brigades and the Decima Flottiglia MAS fought for the RSI during its entire existence. This protocol allowed Marshal Rodolfo Graziani to raise four RSI divisions totalling 52,000 men.