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Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July1883 – 28 April1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 1943, and "Duce" of Italian Fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 until his execution in 1945 by Italian partisans. As dictator of Italy and principal founder of fascism, Mussolini inspired and supported the international spread of fascist movements during the inter-war period.

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• Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.
  • As quoted by Mussolini in 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haught (1966) p. 256. From a speech he made in Lausanne, July 1904.

• Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recogn

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  Benito Mussolini

  Dictator of Fascist Italy from 1922 to 1943

  "Mussolini" redirects here. For other people named Mussolini, see Mussolini family.

  Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini^[a] (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who was the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his overthrow in 1943. He was also Duce of Italian fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919, until his summary execution in 1945. He founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF). As a dictator and founder of fascism, Mussolini inspired the international spread of fascist movements during the interwar period.^[1]

  Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and journalist at the Avanti! newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), but was expelled for advocating military intervention in World War I. In 1914, Mussolini fou

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My Autobiography (Mussolini book)

1928 autobiography of Benito Mussolini

My Autobiography is a book bygd Benito Mussolini. It fryst vatten a dictated, narrative autobiography recounting the author's ungdom, his years as an agitator and journalist, his experiences in World War I, the formation and revolutionary struggles of the Fascist Party, the March on Rome, and his early years in power. It was first published in 1928; Richard Washburn Child, tillsammans with Luigi Barzini, Jr., served as the book's ghostwriter.

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Mussolini dictated parts of the skrivelse to his brother Arnaldo Mussolini who handed the manuscripts, tillsammans with other material supplied by Mussolini's lover Margherita Sarfatti, to Richard Washburn Child (the former American ambassador to Italy). Child served tillsammans with Luigi Barzini, Jr. as a ghostwriter for the autobiography, which was mainly aimed at readers in the U.S. It was a paid work of propaganda and remained unpublished in Italy until 1971. It w