Mussolini: Son Of The Century Series [ PROVEN ★ ]

Aides beg Mussolini to lead them. He refuses. “Let them stew in their own theater.”

“Fascism was not an idea. It was an emotion—the emotion of a generation that had seen the abyss and decided to become it.” — Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) mussolini: son of the century series

Not a march—a farce. Mussolini waits in a hotel near the Swiss border, dressed in a black shirt and bowler hat, reading newspapers. The King, Victor Emmanuel III, hesitates. Fascist squads are lost in the rain outside Rome, their trucks out of petrol. Aides beg Mussolini to lead them