Benito Mussolini
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Benito Mussolini was an Italian journalist and politician that acted as the leader of fascist Italy from 1922 until his removal from power in 1943.
Bio[edit | edit source]
Mussolini was born to a socialist father and a devoutly catholic mother - who also saw him put into a catholic boarding school ran by Salesian monks. To everyone's surprise, young Benito turned into a full-fledged atheist whose closest thing to faith laid in Friedrich Nietzsche and his concept of the 'Übermensch'. The latter made it hard to follow the egalitarian model widely promoted by socialism, and Mussolini's support for an Italian war intervention against the Central Powers of WW1 (ironically including Germany) saw him kicked out of the Italian socialist party in 1914.
By the time he returned from military service in the Entente forces in 1917, Mussolini had dropped his ideas about class conflicts in exchange for national conflicts. By 1922, he took 30.000 of his merry blackshirt fascists to a march on Rome. At this, supreme military commander King Emmanuel III of Italy thoroughly shat his pants and named Mussolini prime minister. Benito used his newly-gained powers to install a police state and to make sure Italian trains finally ran on time. Then he made the tactical mistake of allying with Nazi Germany, and next thing you know, Italy lost the war in Africa, was overrun by Allied forces, and Il Duce's corpse was hung outside an Esso gas station after Italian communists shot him dead. Also, the trains no longer ran on time.
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Mussolini solely fought in 8chanmania V, and nothing beyond him not winning a belt is known.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Mussolini was named after the liberal Mexican president Benito Juarez.
- Having helped at his father's smithy, Mussolini could have lead a much more prosperous life as an axe salesman.
