Mussolini, Benito

An Italian dictator ( see dictatorship ) of the twentieth century. Mussolini formed a fascist ( see fascism ) government in Italy in the 1920s and allied Italy with Germany as one of the Axis powers of World War II . Mussolini, known as il Duce (“the leader”), was shot by his Italian opponents near the end of the war.

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Banners with “Muslims go home” and “Long Live Il Duce,” in a reference to Benito Mussolini, lie crumpled along the streets.

Benito Mussolini came out of the more straightforwardly named National Fascist Party.

In 2003, for example,he claimed that Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy, “did not kill anyone.”

Islam is 1,400 years old; fascism entered the dialectic only with Benito Mussolini.

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