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If you ask me, Italy should have only taken the ethnically Italian parts of the Austro-Hungarian Hungarian Empire. Trentino, Ladinia, Trieste, Gorizia, Western Istria, Lussinpiccolo and Zara should have been enough. Unfortunately, the Italian public and Mussolini got greedy, which always leads to downfall.
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My late stepfathers family was affected by this. His grandmother had married Rudolf Sandner see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Sandner a die-hard national socialist from Reichenberg / Liberec with whom she had 3 children.
My stepfathers mother, her younger sister and the youngest -a boy. Towards the end of WW2 the marriage shattered and my stepfathers grandmother tried to flee to her native Carinthia, but she and her preeschool aged children got captured and raped by Soviet soldiers. The boy didn't make it.
My step grandmother always says that she cold't remember anything. Her alcoholism makes my doubt it, but who am I to judge. My step geat-grandmother later remarried and became a somewhat popular figure in Austrias right wing (well back then really) freedom party in the 60ies and 70ies.
Her second daughter married an US soldier and still lives in Birmingham Alabama.
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Local Slavs (Croats) did much worse to other local Slavs (Serbs) in that period, and Italians tried to defend Serbs in their ocupational zone.
Expulsion of Italians from Istria and Zara is tragedy. And it was not done in name of communism, but in name of Croatian nationalism.
Tito tried his best to increase percentage of Croats in Croatia, by expelling Italians and transfering Serbs from Croatia into Serban province of Vojvodina on places of expelled Germans.
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Indeed, this is very humane approach:
In September 1920, Benito Mussolini stated:
When dealing with such a race as Slavic—inferior and barbarian—we must not pursue the carrot, but the stick policy. ... We should not be afraid of new victims. ... The Italian border should run across the Brenner Pass, Monte Nevoso and the Dinaric Alps. ... I would say we can easily sacrifice 500,000 barbaric Slavs for 50,000 Italians.
— Benito Mussolini, speech held in Pula, 20 September 1920
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia...ism_and_racism
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