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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.
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Benito Mussolini came out of the more straightforwardly named National Fascist Party.
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In 2003, for example,he claimed that Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy, “did not kill anyone.”
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Islam is 1,400 years old; fascism entered the dialectic only with Benito Mussolini.
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