• apfelwoiSchoppen
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    Mussolini made the Vatican a theocratic nation-state. It is baked into the cake.

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

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        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.