Benito Mussolini

"Let's go with... bald."

- Benito Mussolini, WWII

Benito Mussolini was the prime minister of Italy and leader of the National Fascist Party.

Biography
In 1902, he was a Socialist newspaper writer who came from Italy. He moved to Switzerland to write his newspapers but got into lots of trouble with the Swiss police. He didn’t like war, so when Italy colonized Libya in 1910, he rioted and got arrested.

He created Fascism in Fabio's Hair Salon, and later he made a speech about Fascism, which made his support grow and grow. In 1922, he went to the king and said, "Make me Prime Minister or I’ll make me Prime Minister," and the king said, "You and what army?" Benito responded with, "This army," pointing at his followers, and so the king made him Prime Minister.

After Germany took over lots of European countries, he decided to take over Abyssinia (Present-Day Ethiopia), and then he took over Albania. After a massive series of failures, Italy surrendered in 1943, and then 2 years later, Mussolini was executed by firing squad and his body was suspended for the crowd to see at a local gas station.

Appearances

 * WW2 (both parts)

Trivia

 * Before he became a member of the Italian Fascist Party, he was part of the Italian Socialist Party.
 * After his attempt of Invading Greece, Winston Churchill referred to him as "Europe's Soft Underbelly."
 * Benito Mussolini is well known for his creation of the far-right ideology Fascism, which he believed would help him recreate the Roman Empire.
 * He was the longest-lasting prime minister of Italy, lasting from 1922-1943