Italy: The bodies, left to right, of Achille Starace, former secretary of the Fascist Party, Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, hang from a filling station in Milan after they were executed by Italian partisans, 29 April 1945

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until he was ousted in 1943.

He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce ('The Leader'), Mussolini was the founder of fascism.

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Renzo Pistoni

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