Hi
everyone,
I’m sorry
for uploading the journal today, but yesterday I had to deal with some unexpected
problems. I hope you understand me.
Well,
yesterday in Social Sciencies we reviewed the content of Fascist Italy and we
went on with the presentation. We saw how Mussolini took the power of Italy (in
my opinion he got it very, but very easily and also stupid. The king had to be
on drugs or something because this wasn’t normal). Anyway, Mussolini was the
typical dictator (as asshole as the others) who impose his ideology to all the
State. He wasn’t a liberal, he used violence to get what he wanted, he wanted
everybody to obey, believe and fight. This last point reminded me to religions,
I don’t know why (I actually do).
http://skepticism-images.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/images/jreviews/Mussolini-1940.02.07.jpg
In a date I
don’t remember, there was a man whose name I don’t know, that annoyed them in
the Parliament because he was always there, outside, taking notes and telling
everybody the truth about what was happening. Mussolini squad kidnapped him and
killed him, and later Mussolini took the responsibility of his death but
nothing happened. In this part of the lesson I was amazed: I mean, everybody
knew that he killed the man but no one really cared. Are we mad?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-09844,_Mussolini_in_Mailand.jpg/300px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-09844,_Mussolini_in_Mailand.jpg
Another anecdote
was that Mussolini was atheist, although he signed peace with the Church and he
let the Church have their own State. Hypocrisy? Where?
http://www.nuevatribuna.es/media/nuevatribuna/images/2015/08/25/2015082512263283856.jpg
In Italy,
as they wanted to be self-sufficient, they produced all by their own and this
meant that there were periods where food wasn’t abundant, so they made
advertisements saying that people should eat more rice for example, because it
was super healthy or things like that, but in reality this was because they only
had rice to eat and they didn’t want anybody to be aware of this. Something
similar happened with coffee.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/content/images/articles/289/289891/coffee.jpg
The members
of the Parliament who didn’t belong to the Fascist Party had to leave (they
only were 1/3 of all the seats of the Parliament) because most of them were
persecuted and sent to jail. This way, the fascists didn’t have opponents.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Gran_Consiglio_Fascismo.jpg/300px-Gran_Consiglio_Fascismo.jpg
They also
taught children to leave in a dictatorship. When I watched the images of the
children wearing soldiers’ uniforms, I turned a little bit sad.
http://histclo.com/youth/youth/image/imgnat/fascisti01s.jpg
When we
finished with Fascist Italy we started with Nazi Germany. The first thing we
studied was the period of time where Germans printed a lot of money to pay the
debt of the war. This was so ridiculous that even children played with the
notes. To buy a lettuce, for example, they had to carry sacs of money because
the value of the currency was very low. At the end they had to burn everything
and create new money.
http://www.kevinpezzi.com/blog/images/German_mark_kids_playing_with.jpg
We started
also watching something about Hitler, but not so much. We saw that there was a
photo manipulated where Hitler seemed to appear but in reality he wasn’t there.
This was made to show people that Hitler was very nationalist.
https://gabriellebossy.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/hitler14.jpg?w=480&h=270&crop=1
Hello Lorena,
ReplyDeleteHere you have my corrections. I've just uploaded the presentation of this part of the unit, with all the data you don't remember, like what happened to Matteotti in Italy. There were people who complained and all the opposition parties left the Parliament, but in this way Mussolini could have free rein to impose a dictatorship
Your journal is complete, but you forgot to speak about Hitler after WW1 and the swastika, the symbol of his party.
These are the corrections I've made:
Well, yesterday in Social Sciences we reviewed the content of Fascist Italy and we went on with the presentation. We saw how Mussolini took the power of Italy (in my opinion he got it very, but very easily and also stupidly. The king had to be on drugs or something because this wasn’t normal). Anyway, Mussolini was the typical dictator (as asshole as the others) who imposed his ideology to all the State. He wasn’t a liberal, he used violence to get what he wanted, he wanted everybody to obey, believe and fight. This last point reminded me to religions, I don’t know why (I actually do).
In a date I don’t remember, there was a man whose name I don’t know, that annoyed them in the Parliament because he was always there, outside, taking notes and telling everybody the truth about what was happening. Mussolini squad kidnapped him and killed him, and later Mussolini assumed the responsibility of his death but nothing happened. In this part of the lesson I was amazed: I mean, everybody knew that he killed the man but no one really cared. Are we mad?
Another anecdote was that Mussolini was an atheist, although he signed peace with the Church and he let the Church have their own State. Hypocrisy? Where?
In Italy, as they wanted to be self-sufficient, they produced all by themselves and this meant that there were periods where food wasn’t abundant, so they made advertisements saying that people should eat more rice for example, because it was super healthy or things like that, but in reality this was because they only had rice to eat and they didn’t want anybody to be aware of this. Something similar happened with coffee.
The members of the Parliament who didn’t belong to the Fascist Party had to leave (they only had 1/3 of all the seats of the Parliament) because most of them were persecuted and sent to jail. This way, the Fascists didn’t have opponents.
They also taught children to live in a dictatorship. When I watched the images of the children wearing soldiers’ uniforms, I turned a little bit sad.
When we finished with Fascist Italy we started with Nazi Germany. The first thing we studied was the period of time where Germans printed a lot of money to pay the debt of the war. This was so ridiculous that even children played with the banknotes. To buy a lettuce, for example, they had to carry sacks of money because the value of the currency was very low. At the end they had to burn everything and create new money.
We started also studying something about Hitler, but not so much. We saw that there was a photo manipulated where Hitler seemed to appear the day World War 1 started but in reality he wasn’t there. This was made to show people that Hitler was very nationalist.
That's all. Bye!