... totalitarian movement of the right was born in Italy in 1919 with the name Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, meaning Italian Fasces of Fighting and by 1923 the Fascist movement came to power after the so-called 'March to Rome'1 and very soon after, under the dictatorial government of Benito Mussolini took complete control of society.2 In these years, the passion for nationalism ... the Italians, spellbound by the myth of the Duce, to believe that Mussolini, with the strength of his ideas, the force of his actions and the power of his 'ever young' body would ransom them from the...

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