 In late 1942, Italian Libya was lost.During Operation Anton on 9 November 1942, the unoccupied part of France was occupied by the Axis forces, which allowed Victor Emmanuel to proclaim in a speech at long last Corsica and Nice had been "liberated".Early in 1943, the ten divisions of the "Italian Army in Russia" ("Armata Italiana in Russia", or ARMIR) were crushed in a side-action in the Battle of Stalingrad.