Under the Fascist regime, young Italians amused themselves by practicing the war games of adulthood. Paper soldiers marched across board games set in the newly established empire of Italian East Africa. To reveal how these vicious lessons worked, this article examines three types of toys. It starts with the design and deployment of paper soldiers: Italian Alpinisti, Eritrean Ascari, and Somali Dubat. Next, a playbook for The Conquest of Abyssinia boardgame provides a guide to military conquest. Finally, I examine where these toys come from, revealing the financial structures that underpinned colonial propaganda for Fascist government projects. Ultimately, toys wrote scripts for adult violence in the colonies.

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行军中的纸兵：帝国游戏的殖民玩具

在法西斯政权下，年轻的意大利人通过练习成年后的战争游戏来自娱自乐。纸兵在新成立的意大利东非帝国的棋盘游戏中行进。为了揭示这些恶毒的教训是如何起作用的，本文研究了三种类型的玩具。它从纸兵的设计和部署开始：意大利的 Alpinisti、厄立特里亚的 Ascari 和索马里的 Dubat。接下来，《征服阿比西尼亚》棋盘游戏的剧本提供了军事征服的指南。最后，我研究了这些玩具的来源，揭示了支撑法西斯政府项目殖民宣传的金融结构。最终，玩具们为殖民地的成人暴力写下了剧本。