: He uses these examples not to justify current politics, but to encourage a study of history that avoids prejudice and seeks to understand the motivations of all sides. Mai INVADERE la RUSSIA - Alessandro Barbero [Completo]
: 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. 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 : He uses these examples not to justify