re: #161 HappyWarrior

Score one for the mob. Though Capone was never really Cosa Nostra. Anyhow, what’s interesting about the mob and fascism is how Luciano from what I understand played a role in the Allied invasion of Sicily finding people who would support the US occupation and oppose Mussolini. Vito Genovese though apparently was very sympathetic to the regime. Probably was following the money since that’s what guys like that do.

Mussolini saw the Mafia as obstacles to his own power, and also thought he’d get support from the common people of places like Palermo and Naples by cutting the Mafia back. In that, he was right.