A century after taking power, Italy’s violent Mussolini haunts the world
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He preached violence and hate. Tens of thousands of his supporters marched on Italy’s capital a century ago, overthrowing the government and giving Benito Mussolini (above) absolute power. Mussolini quickly, and brutally, taught the world the name of his noxious ideology—fascism.
He aligned with Hitler. He ended up wrecking Italy. At the end, fellow Italians fatally shot him, hanged him upside down, then dragged his body around a Milan square, kicking it, spitting on it, even urinating on it. Yet somehow, like a poison, his fascism seeps into suspicious, fearful corners of the globe. Does the world know what fascism has done?
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