Well i must say that this ending was better than i had hoped for. Finally, a bit of resolution, finality, and still trouble to come. I will admit, like other fans of this series....it seems that end is coming sooner rather than later. After year 7....i will be one of the first to admit that i will be sad that after the final chapter of year 7, there will be no more alexandra quick books to read. All great works must come to an end, but this will be the 3rd time that I will mourn the loss of a classic. I can always re-read them or have them put into a hardback form to read later and pass them on to my kids when they need a good distraction from this terrible world. Ive rather grown quite attached to many of the characters in this series and will miss them when its all said and done.😥😥😥
But the end is NOT HERE YET!!! We have one more epic to enjoy before the final curtain call. Make it the best of all Inverarity. If you are pleased with it, to hell with people who don't like it. Ive been a fan of this series since AQATLB was released....and that was after i DEVOURED "Hogwarts Houses Divided" and after i took a shot at reading AQATTC; and consequently, devouring that book as well. And attending the first and i think only Quick-e con in Maryland. Be well Inverarity, may the holidays light up your life with love from family and us "Quick" fans. Until the final book, Be well
You have clearly studied the issues that occur at the end of a civil war or when a constitutional settlement is overthrown. In our country we had a situation like that at the end of the second world war; made more complicated by the fact that, as with Medea and the Dark Convention, some of the liberators were hardly better than the monsters they overthrew. About half the Italian partisan army was Communist, and these were the real thing, who took their orders straight from Stalin. Their designated leader, Palmiro Togliatti, had been one of the most servile and swinish of Stalin's bureaucratic henchmen before the war. From a couple of my answers on Quora:
"The partisan armies changed directly into parties, of which five went on to become the backbone of Italian politics: Liberals (conservative), Catholics, Republicans (liberal). Socialists (later split into Social Democrats and Socialists proper), and Communists. The Italian Parliament was full of ex-Partisans, as were local administrations and other institutions. The political and intellectual climate of the post-war years was largely shaped by these forces, of which the three largest - Communists, Catholics, and Socialists - had always been excluded from Italian government until then, both under the liberal government of united Italy and under Fascism. It was a genuine revolution, though a fairly silent one.
While Italy was not remotely comparable with Germany and Japan, there had been some pretty horrendous war crimes, especially in Yugoslavia - where the hatred between Italians and Slavs went back to Hasburg times - and in the conquest of Ethiopia, where the monstrous Rodolfo Graziani, a man with nothing to envy to Hitler and Stalin's worst henchmen, had been Viceroy for two bloodstained years. (His replacement, sent when even Mussolini realized that homicidal brutality was not the key to success, was the royal Duke of Aosta, a gentleman whom everyone respected, to the extent that once Haile Selassie had re-conquered the country, he showed him signal regard.)
Part of the issue is actually Communist machinations; the Communist leader Togliatti, briefly Minister of the Interior in the first post-war Italian government, issued a decree of amnesty for all war crimes - which, at the time most Italians thought were high treason and supporting the Nazis during the last few years of war. Stalin and Togliatti hoped to take over Italy by legal means, and actually had quite a few ex-Fascists in their ranks. And the public in general knew little, and still does not know enough, about Italian behaviour in Yugoslavia. One manRodolfo Graziani, who absolutely should have been hanged, was not even tried because of squalid jurisdictional quarrels between Italian and English military courts; another, Roatta, was a collaborator of Pietro Badoglio, the army officer who was called to replace Mussolini, and while Badoglio was himself a despicable failure, his protection was enough to avoid any close investigation into Roatta’s activities. Many Fascist leaders had been executed during the last two years of war. And Italy’s change of front in 1943 had been genuine and heartfelt, proved by the death of over 60,000 partisans and 40,000 army regulars fighting on the allied side. Among the Western allies, there was no such bitterness against Italy as there was against Germany and Japan, whose populations had supported their leaderships to the last man and to the last inch of ground.
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Date: 2024-11-16 01:51 am (UTC)But the end is NOT HERE YET!!! We have one more epic to enjoy before the final curtain call. Make it the best of all Inverarity. If you are pleased with it, to hell with people who don't like it. Ive been a fan of this series since AQATLB was released....and that was after i DEVOURED "Hogwarts Houses Divided" and after i took a shot at reading AQATTC; and consequently, devouring that book as well. And attending the first and i think only Quick-e con in Maryland.
Be well Inverarity, may the holidays light up your life with love from family and us "Quick" fans.
Until the final book,
Be well
-wodcdre
Congratulations!
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Date: 2024-11-17 04:57 pm (UTC)"The partisan armies changed directly into parties, of which five went on to become the backbone of Italian politics: Liberals (conservative), Catholics, Republicans (liberal). Socialists (later split into Social Democrats and Socialists proper), and Communists. The Italian Parliament was full of ex-Partisans, as were local administrations and other institutions. The political and intellectual climate of the post-war years was largely shaped by these forces, of which the three largest - Communists, Catholics, and Socialists - had always been excluded from Italian government until then, both under the liberal government of united Italy and under Fascism. It was a genuine revolution, though a fairly silent one.
While Italy was not remotely comparable with Germany and Japan, there had been some pretty horrendous war crimes, especially in Yugoslavia - where the hatred between Italians and Slavs went back to Hasburg times - and in the conquest of Ethiopia, where the monstrous Rodolfo Graziani, a man with nothing to envy to Hitler and Stalin's worst henchmen, had been Viceroy for two bloodstained years. (His replacement, sent when even Mussolini realized that homicidal brutality was not the key to success, was the royal Duke of Aosta, a gentleman whom everyone respected, to the extent that once Haile Selassie had re-conquered the country, he showed him signal regard.)
Part of the issue is actually Communist machinations; the Communist leader Togliatti, briefly Minister of the Interior in the first post-war Italian government, issued a decree of amnesty for all war crimes - which, at the time most Italians thought were high treason and supporting the Nazis during the last few years of war. Stalin and Togliatti hoped to take over Italy by legal means, and actually had quite a few ex-Fascists in their ranks. And the public in general knew little, and still does not know enough, about Italian behaviour in Yugoslavia. One manRodolfo Graziani, who absolutely should have been hanged, was not even tried because of squalid jurisdictional quarrels between Italian and English military courts; another, Roatta, was a collaborator of Pietro Badoglio, the army officer who was called to replace Mussolini, and while Badoglio was himself a despicable failure, his protection was enough to avoid any close investigation into Roatta’s activities. Many Fascist leaders had been executed during the last two years of war. And Italy’s change of front in 1943 had been genuine and heartfelt, proved by the death of over 60,000 partisans and 40,000 army regulars fighting on the allied side. Among the Western allies, there was no such bitterness against Italy as there was against Germany and Japan, whose populations had supported their leaderships to the last man and to the last inch of ground.
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