The insatiable Mussolini

The influenced Benito Mussolini

We have often heard of Hitler, the terror of the Germans, but how often have you heard about other leaders, about different countries with different ideologies. In Italy it was the ideology of fascism, is in favor of the idea of ​​a nation against the individual, it takes a leader as a person in which power is concentrated, and also takes advantage of the sentiments d the nation, so to act in a violent way, fascism also tries to suppress the class struggle. The most representative of the fascist leader, an ally of Adolf Hitler, Nazism, Benito Mussolini.

An Italian politician, was the son of a humble family, his father's blacksmith and his mother a teacher. Benito course studies teacher until he was finally professor. Later he began to have many problems with the authorities, so he was expelled from Switzerland and Austria. When he tried to approach the policy move closer to the socialist party. was appointed secretary of the provincial federation of Forli and soon became editor of the weekly "La Lotta di Classe" which means the class struggle. Later, he wanted to capitalize on the dissatisfaction that gripped Italian society after the end of the war by calling on the fight against the leftist parties, then created the "fasci di combattimento" armed groups that were formed agitation the initial germ of the Fascist Party.

Time later it was the assassination of a Socialist deputy, Giacomo Matteotti, so Mussolini went to the power and destroyed any opposition, finaly he transformed his government into a dictatorship. Supported by a large segment of the population, he invested a lot in infrastructure and regained old expansionist projects. After Hitler came to power in Germany, was approaching the Nazis, and after the first German victories in World War II, he judged final, declared war on the Allies. And so finally Italy entering the WWII.

During the Second World War, Mussolini resisted a long time to participate in it, and make alliances, Hitler wanted to Mussolini get into war on the side of Germany, but he resisted, other leaders like Roosevelt asked Mussolini to stay neutral. Finally Mussolini saw that the war was already decided in favor of Germany, so that makes Italy enters the war.

In my opinion Mussolini was not too bad leader, he could have achieved great deeds during his government. Benito Mussolini didn´t do everything wrong, for example he invested a lot in infrastructure and regained old expansionist, wanted to make a lot of work to improve Italy, even tough he spend a lot in infrastructure it was a great job he did, and also during the World War II he didn´t want to get in it , and he didn´t wanted to be in the side of any country because that would bring a lot of problems to Italy. Mussolini was very intelligent to do that and stay neutral, but he was influenced by Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazism, and decided to go to war. In my opinion Mussolini had not been a bad leader if he had not been influenced by Hitler.

Written by: Rafaela Hermoza