contributed to the fact that the king of italy, victor emmanuel ii, invited the fascist leader benito musaliniresign. he didn’t want to, he was arrested, and the royal government signed a truce with the united states and britain. hitler refused to accept this course of events, and wehrmacht troops occupied the north and center of italy, including rome. at the same time. in the south of the country, the allied forces, together with the italian royal troops, fought against the fascists. by april 1940, italy was completely liberated, and musalini was again arrested and quickly executed. on october 13 , 1990, the first service after a seventy-year break was held in st. basil's cathedral. its official name is pokrovsky cathedral or the cathedral of the intercession of the blessed virgin mary, which is i'm tearing up. it was erected in the middle. century by order of ivan the terrible in honor of the annexation of kazan to the moscow state. the popular name of the cathedral appeared after the moscow erodev was buried under the wall of one of its churches. st. basil's. this church was the only one th

the fascist leader benito musalini was obsessed with the idea of ​​national superiority and dreamed ofue of nations for help, but only the ussr responded . the western powers refused to apply sanctions against italy, and even refused to sell weapons to ethiopia so that it could defend itself. ethiopia was simply surrendered, just as austria, czechoslovakia and poland were later surrendered. the africans had old rifles, sticks, spears and bows, but they still beat the italians, even though they had the latest planes, tanks and artillery. musalini became furious and ordered the use of chemical weapons, mustard gas and fasgene. only this made it possible to annex ethiopia. this conflict of 1930 is considered one of the first harbingers of the second world war, but the nazis were unable to hold the captured country . the partisan struggle did not stop; in 1941, the italians had to flee ethiopia. on october 3, 1942, at the penimünda test site, the germans conducted the first successful test of the fa2 rocket, which is considered the world's first long- range ballistic missile. hitler saw it