Mussolini

[ moos-uh-lee-nee, moo-suh-; Italian moos-saw-lee-nee ]

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noun

Be·ni·to [b, uh, -, nee, -toh, be-, nee, -taw], Il Duce, 1883–1945, Italian Fascist leader: premier of Italy 1922–43.

Mussolini

/ mussoˈliːni; ˌmʊsəˈliːnɪ /

MussoliniBenito18831945MItalianPOLITICS: head of state Benito (beˈniːto) known as il Duce. 1883–1945, Italian Fascist dictator. After the Fascist march on Rome, he was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III (1922) and assumed dictatorial powers. He annexed Abyssinia and allied Italy with Germany (1936), entering World War II in 1940. He was forced to resign following the Allied invasion of Sicily (1943) and was eventually shot by Italian partisans

Rick Steves can point out the balconies in Milan where Mussolini gave speeches.

One was Mussolini, who was a prime minister of a democracy for three years.

From Time

In fact, as Ihrig points out, Mussolini called himself “the Mustafa Kemal of a Milanese Ankara” as he began his own power-grab.

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 other words, Berlusconi's trivialization of the Shoah and his lenient views regarding Mussolini are not uncommon.

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

If you think you are going to get us to accept any such Mussolini dictatorship, you've got another guess coming.

Are they not the very men who sent cables of homage to Hitler and Mussolini after the shame of Munich?

Everybody knows what happened to Mussolini, and Hitler, and Stalin, and all their imitators.

Both Hitler and Mussolini got into power in periods of great unrest by promising peace and security to the bewildered people.

And if you should bring back Mussolini, I think you might get a medal.

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