Tbf Italians mounted an actual resistance to their fascist government that killed their fascist leader, unlike the German resistance which was a wet fucking fart and hitler shot himself in a basement like a cuck. Hell they used to have one of the biggest communist parities in mainland Europe.
Albania, too, right? I always figured "obscure nobody who liberates the country "single handedly"" goes a long way to explain why Hoxha is a revered figure despite him being, by all measures, kind of weird with it
Tbf Italians mounted an actual resistance to their fascist government that killed their fascist leader,
They did. But they then went on to kill, imprison or marginalize anyone who had been a member of the resistance from the beginning in order to promote the fascist turncoats, the heroes of the final days.
It's pretty funny how people are amazed whenever a Westerner is fluent in a non-European language because the norm is the ex-pat who has lived for decades abroad and still demands that the locals speak English.