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In 1927, Mussolini had himself baptized by a Roman Catholic priest in order to take away certain opposition from the side of Italy's Catholics, who were then still very critical of the modern Italian State, which had taken away papal property and virtually blackmailed several popes inside the Vatican.

Disaster and death

In 1940–41 Mussolini's armies, badly supplied and poorly led, suffered defeats from Europe across the Mediterranean to the African continent.

The end approached, but Mussolini struggled to survive. He was a poor student at school and learned very little. With the silencing of political dissent as the result of Matteotti's assassination, the function of Mussolini's government became comparable to that of authoritarian dictatorships.^[8] In domestic politics, Mussolini favored the complete restoration of State authority, with the integration of the Fasci di Combattimento into the armed forces (the foundation in January 1923 of the Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale) and the progressive identification of the Party with the State.

Await confirmation. He was finally executed by a firing squad on April 28, 1945, at Dongo in Como province. The Italian reaction to these revelations consisted in the "erroneous" bombardment (at least 19 times) of Red Cross tents posted in the areas of military encampment of the Ethiopian resistance. In speeches and articles he was extreme and violent, urging revolution at any cost, but he was also well spoken.

He was then sent to Gran Sasso, a mountain resort in central Italy (Abruzzo), in complete isolation.

The armed forces disposed of a vast arsenal of grenades and bombs loaded with mustard gas which were dropped from airplanes.

Dictatorship and Police State

Skillfully using his secret police to intimidate his opponents into silence and exercising his absolute control over the press, Mussolini gradually built up the legend of Il Duce. In 1925, he introduced the press laws, which stated that all journalists must be registered fascists.

Mussolini became a close ally of German dictator Adolf Hitler, whom he influenced. For Battisti's publication, he wrote a novel, Claudia Particella, l'amante del cardinale, which was published serially in 1910. ISBN 978-0333685235