(September 13, 2009 at 5:51 am)Giff Wrote: So can this explain why some people in Italy tend to defend him? That people have it easier to sympathise(feels like a wrong word to use) with him rather then a guy like Stalin or Hitler who were driven by almost relgious ideaologies and were commiting crimes based on hate?
My former history teacher had a brilliant anecdote for Italy in general.
He was in a train station with his wife, everything from the platform to the vending machines to the beautiful woman behind the counter was presented perfectly, so flash and shiny with a historical undertone, but when it came time to pay for the ticket the connection was offline so you couldn't use a debit card, the vending machines would take your money and not give anything back and the train was half an hour late and when it finally arrived at their station it couldn't be started again.
Italy, he said, looked flash and shiny but it was broken on the inside.
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