I was playing as Austria and going down the monarchist path and when you do that you can take a Focus that gives Italy a national Idea which gives them 0.something authoritarian ('neutral') influence per day. Once you reached 40 % auth. in Italy, you can take another Focus to start a monarchist Civil war in Italy. The Problem is that if you do that, The fascist Italy will retain the national Idea that gives them the auth. Influence so mid-war - i was helping the monarchist side out via another focus that let's you declare war on the fascist side and get into an alliance with the monarchist one - , the fascist side flipped to Auth. Ideology because it overstepped the 50 % threshhold. What happened then I can't explain: The bugged monarchist italy, with which I was at war somehow absorbed the normal monarchist Italy into itself, leading to the complete disapearence of the latter both on the map and on any diplomatic record. Problem: My troops were stuck in the middle of Italy, sourrounded by now-hostile troops and my southern border lay open because it formerly was the border to allied territory, now however, the now-hostile troops could walk into Austria without resistance as the troops I hastily rearanged did not move fast enough. To make it worse, the now-hostile Italy joined the Axis and Germany and Italy sandwiched me from two sides, leading to capitulation within I think a month or so.

All of this would have been prevented if fascist Italy would not have retained the national Idea that gives auth. Influence. Please fix this!