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01:52, 27 May 2006 (UTC) : This is not exactly an NPOV article. Some sources suggest that the Salo republic was in fact quite independent in Germany (which in any case had problems elsewhere in its crumbling empire.) --Timothy Horrigan

cite sources please .......xerex

Salò Republic was a puppet republic beyond any possible doubt. They were even taking orders by the Germans. --MauroVan 14:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Extract from Sentenza del Tribunale Supremo Militare, n. 747 del 26 aprile 1954 (Sentence of Supreme Court Martial, n. 747 - 26 April 1954):

"[...] Evidentemente l'Autorità tedesca ebbe allora ad inserirsi nella vita italiana del centro-nord, con i suoi princìpi e i suoi durissimi metodi di lotta; indubbiamente le autorità della Repubblica Sociale Italiana subirono talvolta la pressione e le direttive del loro alleato, pur opponendosi spesso con energia alle sue iniziative; ma tutto ciò non può mutare la posizione giuridica della Repubblica Sociale Italiana, di essere un governo di fatto, sia pure a titolo provvisorio, che manteneva relazioni diplomatiche con alcuni Stati e intrecciava rapporti internazionali, quanto meno ufficiosi, con molti altri che pur non l'avevano riconosciuta. [...]"

"Clearly german Authority entered in north-center italian life, with its principles and its very hard fighting methods; undoubtedly Italian Social Republic authorities sometimes suffered pression and instructions by their allied, even though they often opposed with energy its enterprises; but all this can not change legal position of Italian Social Republic, to be a real government, even if provisional, which manteined diplomatic relations with some States and interlaced international connections, unofficial at least, with many others which hadn't recognized it."

This source demonstrates, beyond any possible doubt, that Italian Social Republic was not a puppet state. --Homer935 12:10, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Why? It's the opinion of an Italian military source in 1954. Everyone who knows the political situation in Italy in 1954 and the character of the Italian army can understand the political motivation behind such a description of the RSI by this military tribunal. --MauroVan 09:52, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with you. If you can consider RSI a 'puppet state', I wonder how do you consider the 'entity' that represented the Allied-occupied Southern Italy (it is not really the case of talking about a 'state'). In the South there was an occupation currency (the RSI kept its regular 'Lira') and the government was entirely taken over by Allies; there the Allies closed newspapers, controlled all of the media and propaganda, organized a system of concentration camps for the opponents, even bring back the mafia on rule in sicily etc.

On the other side, we have in RSI a state with some 600.000 men at arms: 250.000 in regular Army (including the personnel of the Republican National Air Force,) and the rest in GNR (Guardia Nazionale Republicana, former Carabinieri) and the different police corps. We have a government recognized by the whole population and supported by the great majority of it; a government that has control of all the public apparatus, the media, instruction, justice, university, young organizations etc. Certainly, there was the presence of the German war machine and the economical system was subordinated to the Axis (so German, but also still Italian) war effort; it is a fact. Anyway, the attempt of presenting RSI as a 'Vichy' or, worse, as a version of the Southern Italy 'thing' (please let me not use the term 'state' for that...) is simply ludicrious. (27/1/2007)

We're not talking about the character of the Southern Kingdom in this article. However, I'm partially agreeing that also the entity in the South was at a large extent a puppet (of the Allied forces, in that case). Nevertheless, it existed also before and without the military occupation of foreign forces, something that cannot be said about the so-called Social Republic. BTW, I'm not telling that the RSI or the Southern Kingdom were no state, they were states of the puppet kind (100% the "Republic", 50% the Kingdom). --MauroVan 09:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

1 Italian Social Republic.
2 Site clean-up
3 Social vs Socialist
4 Navy
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[edit] Italian Social Republic.

The Italian Social Republic rejected the royal surrender on September 27, 1943. The baptism of fire of the Army took place on October 30, 1943 (Mondragone); the baptism of fire of the Air Force on January 3, 1944 (sky of Turin); the baptism of fire of the patrol boats of the Navy on March 1, 1944 (Anzio). Marshal Rodolfo Graziani ordered to the troops of the RSI to surrender on May 1, 1945 by a message broadcasted by the Radio of Florence.

[edit] Site clean-up

I have changed the site of the Italian Social Republic to be more like that of the sites on other WWII nations like Vichy France and Nazi Germany with regards to the description panel on the right, I hope this makes the article look more standard than it did previously. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by R-41 (talk • contribs) 05:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Social vs Socialist

I cannot access the the template to change (which is a good thing), but I believe that the English version of the title for this organization is the "Italian Socialist Republic". Mkpumphrey 19:56, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. All sources and history books refer to it as the Italian Social Republic.

Here's an easy way to figure out the proper English language name: Sociale means Social, Socialista means socialist. Italy becoming a socialist republic happened much later. --NEMT 15:20, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Err: when did that happen, then?! —Ian Spackman 17:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I think this is an important point that needs elaborating on, the RSI was supposed to be a recreation of Mussolini's fascist ideology, he admitted himself in his biography that Italy previously under him become too dominated by the monarchy and big business, and the RSI was supposed to be a left-turn in that it rejected monarchy and was republican and socialistic in inspiration, and was to be based on Mussolini's collectivist ideology (as written in the 'Doctrine of Fascism' which Giovanni Gentile ghostwrote for him). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.231.181.129 (talk) 02:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Navy

"Very little of the Regia Marina chose to side with the RSI." This is misleading as the bulk of the Italian navy was ordered to Malta as part of the surrender before the RSI was formed, there was no choice or "siding" involved. --NEMT 23:08, 23 April 2007 (UTC)