[Comrade Ogilvy]

Last night I've read about Mussolini.
After a while the book said that he was dismissed by the king in 1943...
Why was this?
Even though the king had the highest rank in the country, why didn't Mussolini kill him, inprison him etc.?
Who was the leader after Mussolini?

[Adrien]

He was indeed dismissed by the King, but this must not be seen as a proof of Victor Emmanuel's courage and integrity: he only dared to dismiss him because things were running towards disaster, that Mussolini was busy elsewhere unable to defend himself, and that if he didn't do it the people would have taken care of him personnally. It's more than certain that if the King had tried to do that earlier the Fascists and Mussolini himself would have taken measures against him.

After the dismissal, Mussolini was arrested by orders of the King but freed by one of Hitler's pilot and taken to the North of the country where he was put at the head of the Republic of Salo, a useless puppet state of the Third Reich. In Italy, the country was knowing civil war between the fascists and the anti-fascists (the Field-Marshal Badoglio had I think replaced Benito), a war that eventually led to the fall of the Monarchy.

[Comrade Ogilvy]

Thank you.
I would like to ask you a question, why do you have Lenin on your avatar?
I quote Lenin:
'You do not imagine that we shall be victorious without applying the most cruel revolutionary terror?'

[Adrien]

I have Lenin because I am a supporter of Marxism-Leninism, which means that yes among other things I see the Socialist Revolution and violent toppling of the established order of the Capitalist ruling class as the only viable way to institute the Socialist state and start the construction of Communism.

And now, in every Revolution, be it Socialist or National-bourgeois like ours in 1789 you have to be prepared to do everything in order to save the Revolution, its achievements and its state.

[Disenfranchised]

All Hail Grocho Marx and John Lenin.
More seriously: Clarification on this King thing.
The war did not go well for Italy. Losses in Greece and Africa, and the prospect of invasion of Italy by the Allies, led to unrest in the Fascist party. In July, 1943, Mussolini was deposed and imprisoned.

Like I mean the King was more of a fiqurehead.