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He may not have been bad, but he did a lot of bad things. _____________________________________________________________________ I agree. Yet, Mussolini did something that no world leader had done before. He stopped Hitler from invading a country that he wanted to invade (Hitler's birthplace of Austria). At the time (1934, I think), the Italian Army dwarfed the German Army, and Hitler backed down. Later, Hitler acquired Austria and turned on Czechoslovakia (1938). In this case, Hitler and Mussolini played the good cop/bad cop routine, with Mussolini as the good cop. The Brits and French backed down. By WW2 Mussolini had been reduced to Hitler's junior partner, and that is how he is remembered today. Also, Mussolini did something else that has never been done before or since. He wiped out organized crime in Sicily because of a slight done to him by a Mafia don. When the Allies invaded Sicily in 1943, they turned loose all political prisoners of the Fascists, including the Mafiosos who were soon back in business. Postscript: One of Mussolini's granddaughters ran for a seat on the Italian Parliament on the Fascist Party ticket, and she won if I remember correctly.

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