• rambaroo@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      The Vatican had a history of literally being a nation state long before Mussolini.

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        8 months ago

        That may be true but it wasn’t in 1929 as the dictator was beginning to define the word fascism. Then Mussolini gave the vatican nationhood distinct from Italy.