Benito Mussolini, the greatest fascist and political leader of Italy in the world of history, was born on July 29, 1883, in Verano di Costa, Italy. He ruled as the dictator of Italy for twenty-five years, from 1925 to 1945. He was not only a political leader but also a socialist revolutionary, editor, and also journalist of the newspaper.
He followed in the footsteps of the social revolution as his father, Alessandro Mussolini, was a socialist himself. He had spent his early days, mostly his teenage years, traveling the world, especially in Switzerland, to engage his work more as a social activist.
After traveling for some time in Switzerland, he moved to Austria and Hungary in the year 1909 to work as the editor of a newspaper that supported socialist views and propaganda. After working there for some time, he was suspended on the grounds of breaking and violating the laws which were made the press freedom.
Benito Mussolini’s Early Life And Career As A Socialist:
Mussolini’s family was a simple middle-class family in Italy, but Mussolini, since his early childhood, wanted to live a life in which he was known by all his nation. He walked on the footprint of his father for being a socialist revolutionary but went farther away than that.
During his school days, when he was only ten years old, he was suspended for killing one of his classmates by stabbing him, and again, he did a very similar thing at the age of 14.
After he was suspended from the press, where he was working as an editor and journalist, he left the socialist party as he thought that the socialist party did not grant the freedom that he actually wanted. Soon he started his own newspaper in which he provoked violence, gathering all the people with his same mindset.
During World War I in the year 1915, he went to war in the military and fought on the front lines, after which he gained the position of corporal. After World War I ended, he returned to his newspaper editing, and along with his supporters, he pressured the government to stop the invasion of others from worldwide, which would keep their race pure.
His Works After Leaving The Socialist Party:
After coming back from World War I and seeing the consequences of the war, which led to the Treaty of Versailles in the year 1919, he gathered all the people who were against the treaty and together formed a fascist party called the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento.
Mussolini gathered people against the socialists, and he trained them as he himself was well trained from the war and kept all the guns and weapons in his newspaper editing office. He was preparing his own army to overthrow the government and take that position.
In the year 1921, when there was the increasing power of the socialist party, the ruling king, Victor Emmanuel III, dismissed the socialist party, and it was at that time that Benito Mussolini rose to power through elections and made his own army overpowering the king.
Soon after coming to power, he started his own rules, which he made compulsory that 66 percent of the newspaper would be under him and they should be allowed inside Rome. At that same time, there was Nazism going on in Germany, and soon Mussolini shook hands with Hitler and became partners.
Mussolini After Becoming The Prime Minister!
There was lots of torture and mass killing going on both in Italy and Germany, one led by Hitler and the other by Nazism, but soon Italy was overthrown by Germany during the second world war, and Italy was divided into two groups, one under Hitler and the other under the government.
Mussolini had been saved by Hitler’s soldiers and brought to the land which was under Hitler’s control, but soon he lost all his powers in front of Hitler, and he wanted to flee from there as he was just a mere puppet in the hands of Hitler who had to do whatever he said.
He understood that his rule of fascism in Italy was now soon to be ended, and there was nothing he could do about it as after all these years of brutal behavior and tortures that he had vested upon the people of Italy, all the commoners were against him.
What Happened To Mussolini?
Mussolini wanted to flee from Italy to Spain with his lover Claretta Petacci in the year 1944 as he no longer wanted to see the brutality and be a mere puppet in the hands of Hitler. But it was all in vain as he was discovered by the socialist government troops and arrested.
He was shot dead along with his lover on April 28, 1945, when he tried to flee again. He was shot multiple times, and four bullets struck him near his heart, killing him immediately. After he was executed, his body was taken and hung upside down in front of the whole country to show what would happen to a traitor to the country. However, it could be said that he was indeed a great leader by himself, but his last days of life were very unhappy.
