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'''Benito Mussolini '''(July 29, 1883 - April 28, 1945) was the dictator of Fascist Italy during [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_II World War II]. He started a war with Ethiopia and invaded North Africa to expand the Italian Empire and allied himself with [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Nazi_Party Nazi Germany] and Imperial Japan during the war. | '''Benito Mussolini '''(July 29, 1883 - April 28, 1945) was the dictator of Fascist Italy during [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_II World War II]. He started a war with Ethiopia and invaded North Africa to expand the Italian Empire and allied himself with [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Nazi_Party Nazi Germany] and Imperial Japan during the war. | ||
Mussolini gained a reputation for bullying and fighting during his childhood. At age | Mussolini gained a reputation for bullying and fighting during his childhood. At age 10 he was expelled from a religious boarding school for stabbing a classmate in the hand, and another stabbing incident took place at his next school. He founded the Facist party in 1919, galvanishing the suport of unemployed war vetrans he organised them into squadrons known as the blackshirts who antagonised his enemies, he was invited to join the coilition government in 1921, in 1922 as the goverments grip on the populace slipped and chaos loomed, he and his blackshirts marched on Rome, presenting himself as the one man to save Italy. On the match his squads burned down the headquaters and homes of every member of both socialist and communist organisations. | ||
After that he gradually overthrew the democratic system and turned Italy into a one party Facist dictatorship with himself as its leader. He was racist against Slavs and the Africans, however he also publically said "Race is a feeling, not a reality. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today." When he became the leader of Italy he said that a small group of Jews have been in Italy since the days of the Roman Empire and "should remain undisturbed." Never the less he introduced the "Manefesto of Race" which stripped the Jews of there Itlian citizenship (despite multiple members of his own facist party being Jewish) and prevented them from working in 1938, mostly due to heavy infulence from [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Hitler] and used his private militia (or Blackshirts) to police his country and enforce this ruling in areas that openly resisted, despite this the overall the enforcement of the Manefesto was relatively lax. | After that he gradually overthrew the democratic system and turned Italy into a one party Facist dictatorship with himself as its leader. He was racist against Slavs and the Africans, however he also publically said "Race is a feeling, not a reality. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today." When he became the leader of Italy he said that a small group of Jews have been in Italy since the days of the Roman Empire and "should remain undisturbed." Never the less he introduced the "Manefesto of Race" which stripped the Jews of there Itlian citizenship (despite multiple members of his own facist party being Jewish) and prevented them from working in 1938, mostly due to heavy infulence from [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Hitler] and used his private militia (or Blackshirts) to police his country and enforce this ruling in areas that openly resisted, despite this the overall the enforcement of the Manefesto was relatively lax. |