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  1. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: What color is your coup?

    An excerpt from Nicolae Ceaușescu's 1970 novel, Betrayed on All Sides: Romania During the Great War Romania, my beloved yet beleaguered homeland, entered the maelstrom of the Second World War not as a willing combatant, but as a nation gripped by fear, suffocated by internal rot, and betrayed...

  2. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Belgian Chocolate

    An excerpt from Jean-Michel Veranneman De Watervliet's 2014 novel, The Death of Belgium By the end of May 1940, Belgium had ceased to exist as a sovereign nation. The Wehrmacht's lightning thrust through the Ardennes—blunt, brutal, and wholly unexpected—shattered not only the fragile Maginot...

  3. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Interlude: Legoland (Denmark) is mine

    An Excerpt from Peter H. Tveskov's Between the World War and the Cold War: Denmark in the 1940s The morning of April 9, 1940, dawned without warning or preparation for Denmark. At approximately 5:00 AM, the Nazi war machine surged across the border in a coordinated blitzkrieg offensive that...

  4. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Vittu Italy!!

    Excerpt from Sisu: Finland's Peril During the Second World War and Early Cold War By Carl Gustav Mannerheim, 1957 The period of uneasy peace that followed the end of the Winter War in early 1940 was, to most Finns, never regarded as anything more than an intermission. Though the Moscow Peace...

  5. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Norwegian Fjord

    Excerpt from The Northern Front: Norway During the Second World War By Varg Vikernes, 2005 On June 10, 1940, as the last Norwegian army units laid down their arms, the mainland capitulated to German occupation. From the icy fjords of Nordland to the shattered quays of Oslo, Nazi control...

  6. Governor's Gambit - Star Wars SI into Imperial Governor

    WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK Will we get a scene with His mom? I wanna see her reaction

  7. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Sweden yes!

    An Excerpt From Neutrality: Sweden's Journey in the Second World War Sweden's position at the onset of World War II was one of delicate balance and uncertainty. Having emerged from the Winter War with Finland in 1940, Sweden was left in a precarious position: neutral but increasingly...

  8. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: The king and the director

    January 28, 1942 Quirinal Palace Rome, Italy Private Audience Chamber of King Victor Emmanuel III The marble walls of the chamber glowed pale in the winter light seeping through tall windows. Outside, the fountains of Piazza del Quirinale had frozen mid-motion, their icy silence mocking the...

  9. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Kanker Germany

    An excerpt from Geert Wilders Book: Resistance, The Netherlands during WW2 Despite its official policy of neutrality, the Netherlands was invaded on the morning of May 10, 1940, by German forces, who struck without any formal declaration of war. The attack was part of a larger strategy designed...

  10. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Controlling the narrative

    February 7, 1942 Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy I sat across from Louis Napoleon and Francisco Franco in my office. Heavy velvet curtains choked the winter light, and the air reeked of old cigars, ambition, and the ghosts of failed empires. In front of me, sprawled across the desk like a...

  11. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: We do a little trolling

    February 4, 1942 Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy They called it a declaration. A united front. A proclamation of justice from the self-anointed saints of civilization—Leopold, Churchill, Roosevelt, and that awkward French ghost in a general's uniform, De Gaulle. Four men who wouldn't recognize...

  12. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Flipping the table

    January 25, 1942 Livadia Palace, Yalta Soviet Union The fire in the hearth crackled like distant gunfire, a low percussion echoing off the cavernous walls of old imperial decadence. Outside, snow pressed against the stained-glass windows like a ghost begging to be let in. The room smelled of...

  13. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Sapienza

    January 17, 1942 Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy The wine tasted like copper and regret. I wasn't even sure it was wine anymore—could've been blood, honestly. The light above the table buzzed with the dull hum of fascist decay, like the spirit of the Risorgimento itself was trapped in the filament...

  14. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: It's all my fault

    January 15, 1942 Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy I stepped into my office during lunch break. Normally, I'd eat with the family—smile at the kids, pretend to enjoy my wife's boiled vegetables—but not today. Today, I wanted to be alone. I sat down in the chair. The old leather creaked like it was...

  15. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Coronation

    January 15, 1942 Paris France The city had fallen under the shadow of war at last, its streets now crisscrossed with soldiers and the low hum of armored engines. The air was thick with the smell of smoke and the stench of decay—a reflection of the turmoil that had consumed it. The old city...

  16. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Interlude: The shoah

    An excerpt from the 1999 novel, The Shoah by Elie Wiesel Benito Mussolini was no friend of the Jews. In 1938, under Hitler's suffocating pressure, he signed into law a raft of racial edicts that stripped Jews in Italy of their citizenship, employment, and dignity. It was a betrayal that echoed...

  17. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Side story: Diary 3

    An excerpt from Anne Frank's diary of a young girl Tuesday, 15 January 1942 I heard something today that stopped my breath. The radio crackled, and they spoke about Rome. It's been bombed by the Germans, but not with ordinary bombs. Chemical weapons, they said. Cities across Italy are burning...

  18. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Stop it he's already dead

    January 3, 1942 Palazzo Venezia Rome, Italy The room smelled of old cigars, dust, and a strange sharpness—maybe it was the air itself, as if the walls were breathing in tune with the steady hum of the city outside. The city, my city, where the pulse never stops, where every street corner feels...

  19. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Un petit coronation avec mon ami le general

    December 20, 1941 Somewhere in the Alps, near Chambéry Kingdom of France (Savoy front) The wind cut through the valley like a blade, sharp with ice and smoke. Snow melted under the treads of Italian tanks and the bootsteps of a new crusade. The flag overhead—blue with a golden eagle and...

  20. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Excommunicado

    December 17, 1941 Vatican City – Private Audience Hall The rain hadn't followed me here—but the silence had. That heavy, papal kind. The kind that hums in the bones of saints carved before anyone knew what phosphorus did to skin. It oozed out of the walls, breathed through marble lungs. It made...
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