Mai Invadere La Russia - Alessandro Barbero [co... -

In Barbero’s telling, these two ideological forces were destined to collide, regardless of the individual will of their leaders. Drawing on Tolstoy’s War and Peace , Barbero suggests that even a figure as powerful as Napoleon was often "dragged by forces greater than himself". The Italian Perspective

: Small Italian contingents participated in the Allied intervention against the Bolsheviks. Mai INVADERE la RUSSIA - Alessandro Barbero [Co...

: Barbero notes the irony that while Italy invaded Russia three times, Russian troops have only entered Italian soil once (in 1799 to fight the French), and they left voluntarily shortly after. In Barbero’s telling, these two ideological forces were