And many autocrats enjoy widespread support, at least for a while. Both Italy’s Benito Mussolini and Spain’s Francisco Franco were initially popular figures, and Franco remains admired by many ...
In 1940, as the German blitzkrieg spread across Europe, Mussolini allied himself with Hitler and opened a self-described “parallel war” in the Mediterranean. He dispatched ill-prepared Italian forces ...
History's two most famous fascists were Nazi chief Adolf Hitler in Germany and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Known as Il Duce, or “the duke,” Mussolini headed the National Fascist Party ...