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Benito Mussolini

Mussolini's rise to power was rapid; his Fascist Party Blackshirts marched into Rome in 1922, a year before Hitler's failed first attempt to seize power, the Munich Beer Hall Putch, landed the German in prison. By the time Hitler became the Fuehrer (Leader) of Germany, Mussolini had been "IL DUCE" (Leader) of Italy for more than ten years. He had been successful in improving the Italian economy and bringing stability,as it was said, "He made the trains run on time" (by shooting someone if they didn't). His ambition was to regain for Italy the prestige and power.
Benito Mussolini, "IL DUCE", Prime Minister of Italy, is an Axis European political leader. Like Hitler, he served in the First World War as a young man and dreamed of military glory in a Second War to come. Both returned from the First World War to find their countries in political and economic chaos and formed extremist political parties.

This led him to a program of militarization. Many Europeans felt that his visible successes in restoring Italy outweighed any "rumors" of police brutality. His 1935 invasion of Ethiopia was carried out with a ruthless disregard for world opinion,including the use of poison gas. When the British and French leaders condemned him for these acts, he looked elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan.

He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost him still more support in the rest of the world.

This 'monster' who was a very good friend of Adolf Hitler have also killed thousands of people. I always wonder, where the rest of the world was doing with a monster like him was arising?.

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Probably the same thing the world was doing when one of Hitler's proteges, Saddam Hussein, was rising in power and brutality. Ignoring it. After all, war is unthinkable, especially to stop a brutal dictator.

Thanks for the information on Mussolini. I really need to study more about him, his philosophies, and his rise to power.

Benito Mussolini History & Civil Business Politics

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
-- Benito Mussolini.