I am a historian. I have hundreds of sources, plus the stuff I know from my own experience; I am 62 and I lived most of my life in Italy. I met people who served under Mussolini, people who knew the bastard, and people who were still faithful to his memory and thought that was a honourable thing.

As for the purpose of these comments, it was just to show how what Inverarity imagined for his wizarding America really does reflect what happens, time and again, in actual history. I saw it happen among white South Africans in 1994, and among Russians three years earlier. But my country is what I know best, of course.