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Portrait of Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini was born on July 29th, 1883 in the town of Varnano dei Costa near the village of Predappio. His mother Rosa Maltoni was married to a blacksmith named Alessandro Mussolini. Alessandro, being an admirer of the Mexican revolutionary Benito Juarez, named his son after the patriot and hero. Benito Mussolini was an avid writer and after he finished his schooling, he became an editor for the Milan socialist paper “Avanti”. He became well known among the Italian socialists, but soon started promoting his views for war against Germany in World War I.
This infuriated the Socialists who were against Italy’s entry into the war. In 1915 he formed his own paper, Il Popolo d’Italia, and continued his promotion for war. When Italy finally joined the Allies to fight Germany, Mussolini enlisted into the “Esercito” (Army). Mussolini achieved the rank of Corporal, the same rank as Adolf Hitler, but was discharged in 1917 due to shrapnel wounds while in a trench.
He returned to his career in journalism in which he began to develop his ideas that would soon become known as Fascism. After the war, Italy was in turmoil. The economy was shattered and there were strikes and protests everywhere.
On March 23, 1919, Mussolini and several other veterans formed the National Fascist Party. This party grew in popularity among the people of Italy, who were disenchanted with the chaos surrounding them.
A younger Benito Mussolini
Mussolini seemed to have the answers to bring their country into order. During this time, he adopted the Roman salute and the Black Shirt militia, which Hitler later copied from the him as the Brown Shirts. On March 15th 1921, Mussolini along with 35 other Fascists were elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
In August of 1922, The ruling Leftist party ordered a general strike in the nation. Mussolini was enraged and issued an ultimatum that if they did not end the strike, his Fascist party would. The Leftist claimed he was trying to siege the government, but the armed forces wanted nothing to do with stopping the fascists from preventing the strike. On October 29, 1922, King Vittorio Emanuele III (1869-1947) phoned Mussolini to come to Rome and form a government. Mussolini insisted on a telegram and it was wired soon afterwards. Mussolini boarded a train to Rome and was greeted by thousands of Fascist Blackshirts awaiting his arrival.
His first act was to send the strikers back home to their families and their jobs. Mussolini managed to assume the powers of all the government offices in order to regain control of the economy. In a short period of time, he was successful in stabilizing the economy and taking his country out of economic turmoil. He became known as “Il Duce” (the leader).
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The problem with fascist dictators is that they are good for their country, but no one else. They bog themselves down with extravagent thinking which leads to war. They did their own graves and bury themselves with their countries. Il Duce strengthened Italy in the military aspect, but they only had %15 of the war production of France. Italy was deeply in debt but was still a developing country. IMO he was close minded, and a short term thinkers
Today we are seeing the same issues, as the economies of the world have seen in the past. Despair, use of power, police states, unemployment, just to mention a few of the plagues that Capitalism, Fascism and Communism has forced us to endure. We need a new world order, a voice to guide our world, White, black or whatever colors it is, to keep going. Not for their own purposes or richness but for us, humans, either Americans or whoever is it that it is we are sharing this wonderful planet of ours, “Planet Earth”. The real Mother Land. Let Love guide our soul.
Think of him
Jesus!
STOP PREJUDISDIM
The greatness of Mussolini is that he had the courage to try to realize his great dream, to turn Italy great, respected and feared, although the sctrutural problems of weakness of the country and the dependence of foreign materials to feed its war machine were known by I1 Duce, he insisted to carry on his nationalist and imperial project. Mussolini was a great politician, he knew the strings he had to play to conquer the italian people, all his audiences and the whole world with a complex personality and a storng will. Even when he made anti-semithical laws to please Hitler, he never let the italians jews into Hitler’s hands like Pétain did when the shamefull Vichy France existed.The 15000 italisns jews were murdered after september of 1943 and the german occupation of the north of Italy.
Mussolini had a vision for his country and had the ability to take if forward after the “allies” short changed Italy after WWI. History is written by the victors so do not expect much sympathy for a man who rose to the top of the world stage but eventually was forced to back the wrong horse. All great leaders dream of empire!
Prasad –
I agree that he was a very intelligent man and that his intention were good for his country durning the time of turmoil they were in by boosting their economy however; why would you ever want a leader like this? he was power hungry and unexcepting of views that differed from his own. Why on earth would you want to live in a country where a left-winged political view could have you prosecuted?
I think Mussolini was a great leader;
He fought for the well-being of his country- people.
The betrayal from league of nations(Allies) &
unacceptable treatement from them after WW1
made him to join Hitler.
he was every smart and had a hard child hood but in the end he wanted to much power
Benito Mussoleni is quite smart and i would say, a great leader. I can tell that he cared about Italy’s situation and is a brave man. Like amma says, he wanted too much power. It’s quite sad the way he and his wife died.
benito mussolini was a dictator. he had a clever mind but wanted too much power
As i read and herd about Benito Mussolini, he’s a great thincker and leader also.
In the current situation if we have this kind of leader and dashing attitude personality to do good work for our nation we will definately prove ourself on right way.
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Prasad L. D.
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