In Italy, Mussolini led the way to fascism. Born on July 29, 1883, in small-town southern Italy to a blacksmith father and a schoolteacher mother, he grew up on his socialist father’s stories of ...

He took a dim view of the carnivalesque fascist rallies which take place here every year on Italian fascism’s three most important anniversaries: Mussolini’s birthday, Mussolini’s death day ...

World 100 years on, nostalgia for Fascism persists in Italy. On October 28, 1922, Benito Mussolini’s Fascist blackshirts entered Rome, marking the start of a dictatorship in Italy.

But years earlier, Mussolini’s regime was already passing anti-Semitic laws. Italian Fascism glorified the notion of a "pure Italian," evoking an ideal world where men were warriors and women ...

People march in the hometown of former dictator Benito Mussolini to mark the 100th anniversary of the coup d'etat by which he sized power in 1922, in Predappio, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022.

“Italian attitudes to fascism are often ambivalent: collective memory of Mussolini’s regime reflects what many people would like to believe rather than the harsh reality,” wrote the ...

Now, just weeks before the 100th anniversary of the March on Rome—the October 1922 event that put Mussolini in power—Italy may have a former MSI activist for its prime minister and a ...

‘Words lead to violence’: How a groundbreaking Mussolini drama examines the birth of fascism - IN FOCUS: Next month an epic eight-part biopic of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini airs on Sky.

Despite the violence and crimes of the Mussolini regime, Italians like Veltri still believe a century after his rise to power that fascism brought progress to Italy. Italians were conditioned to view ...