There is nothing good to be said about fascist Italy, nor Germany, Portugal or Spain in those years. A statement, that Mussolini made the trains run on time, even if said tongue-in-cheek, pays homage to a man, who was responsible for the genocide in Ethiopia and many more atrocities during his reign of terror.
We owe our respect to those people, who stood up against him and lost their lives.
´Nuff said!
In addition to being tasteless, the statement was mostly a product of his propaganda machine.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
Well. "Il Duce" may have made the trains run on time, but here in the US we didn't need a dictator to make it happen, now did we?
And just how did Benito get mixed up with that crazy German housepainter anyway?
zugmann BaltACD: the maddog forgets that among the few good things the facist Italian dictator was credited with 'he made the trains run on time'. Beyond that, his end was just. Mussolini made the trains run on time.
BaltACD: the maddog forgets that among the few good things the facist Italian dictator was credited with 'he made the trains run on time'. Beyond that, his end was just.
the maddog forgets that among the few good things the facist Italian dictator was credited with 'he made the trains run on time'. Beyond that, his end was just.
Mussolini made the trains run on time.
http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp
Smile,Stein
BaltACD the maddog forgets that among the few good things the facist Italian dictator was credited with 'he made the trains run on time'. Beyond that, his end was just.
The second part that I always heard was that "Hitler didn't make the trains run on time - German trains ALWAYS ran on time."
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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He did not forget and while there are some corners of the internet where that might be ok to post, this is not one of them.
Are you seriously surprised that the thread got locked?
They should lock this one, too.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
"Mussolini made the trains run on time" is repugnant, just as would be "it's too bad we don't have another Hitler so that we could have a nice new autobahn".
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