Socialist Republic of Italy (Deutschland Victorious)

The Socialist Republic of Italy was a socialist country in southern Europe..It was created after Socialist Benito Mussolini gained power in the Kingdom of Italy in 1930 after a coup attempted resulted in the collapse of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy under Mussolini was turned into a Socialist Republic. After its formation Mussolini spent the next few years implementing programs to rebuild Italy into the socialist utopia of his dreams. However, these programs mostly failed and resulted in a famine hitting Italy for the duration of the 1930s. Because of the famine, Italy mostly had to relay on its other allies those being the French Commune and the Soviet Union. Although Mussolini tried to keep a good impression of himself to the leader of France Sabation Leone, the French people themselves felt that Italy felt more like a weight in the Comintern then an actual ally and they would be proven right once the second great war started.

Italian Involvement in the second great war.
During the start of the war, Italy launched an offensive into the Austrian Empire. Mussolini thought the invasion would be a quick and effortless campaign but the Italian forces had trouble invading through the Austrian alps. Mussolini then attempted a naval invasion of the Kingdom of South Slavia in 1943, however the invasion itself went very horribly for the Italians and resulted in many casualties. Due to the fact that the Germans where struggling to invade the Soviets during the winter, Trotsky decided to send some forces to Italy to help out with the invasion of Austria. However, the Soviet troops did little to help Italy in the invasion and just served to drag out the conflict in Austria. In 1944, the Austrians began to counter the invasion and take a good chunk of northern Italian land. The advancement of the Austrian army into Italy sent Mussolini in a panic and lead him to call all Italian troops fighting in other fronts to go help push the Austrians out. While the Italians did begin to push back the invasion, this gave the Democratic Union a perfect opportunity to launch an invasion of southern Italy. The Kingdom of Iberia, who had joined the war in 1934, was the main country to invade southern Italy which caught Mussolini off guard and forced him to split his forces on two fronts. Italy itself, however, soon capitulated to the Democratic Union and was occupied by the kingdom of Iberia for the duration of the war. In the end Italy was fully annexed by the Kingdom of Iberia in 1950, who went on to form the Kingdom of two Peninsulas.