Thousands of posters bearing a photograph of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini were plastered on walls all over Rome over the weekend. Under the photo of Mussolini was a quotation from one of his speeches reading, “Once I’m gone, the world will still need ideas that will be the most daring, the most Mediterranean, the most European. History will prove me right.”
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