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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

Benito Mussolini

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Benito Mussolini
Age: 61 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 29
Died: 1945
Died: April 28
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