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It wouldn’t actually be that surprising Italy as a country is very young, during the whole 1400-1900 it was composed of much smaller countries which were all more or less opposed Italy as we know it today was only created in 1946 after the 2nd world war... so it being weak is kind of unsurprising - though it was unlikely to be at a sufficiently low level for 10 persons to capture Mussolini