80 years after Benito Mussolini’s death, what can democracies today learn from his fascist rise?
- Written by Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, Germany, June 18, 1940.Everett Collection/ShutterstockThis Monday marks 80 years since Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was killed in an Italian village towards the end of the Second World War in 1945. The following day, his body was publicly desecrated in Milan.
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