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Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce ("the leader"), Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism.
In 1912 Mussolini was the leading member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). Prior to 1914 he was a keen supporter of the Socialist International, starting the series of meetings in Switzerland that organised the communist revolutions and insurrections that swept through Europe from 1917. Mussolini was expelled from the PSI due to his opposition to the party's stance on neutrality in World War I. Mussolini denounced the PSI, and later founded the fascist movement. Following the March on Rome in October 1922 he became the youngest Prime Minister in Italian history until the appointment of Matteo Renzi in February 2014. After destroying all political opposition through his secret police and outlawing labor strikes,Mussolini and his fascist followers consolidated their power through a series of laws that transformed the nation into a one-party dictatorship. Within five years he had established dictatorial authority by both legal and extraordinary means, aspiring to create a totalitarian state. Mussolini remained in power until he was deposed by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1943. A few months later, he became the leader of the Italian Social Republic, a German client regime in northern Italy,he held this post until his death in 1945.
Since 1939, Mussolini had sought to delay a major war in Europe until at least 1942. Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, starting World War II. On 10 June 1940, Mussolini sided with Germany, though he was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity in 1940 to carry out a long war with France and the United Kingdom.Mussolini believed that after the imminent French armistice, Italy could gain territorial concessions from France and then he could concentrate his forces on a major offensive in Egypt, where British and Commonwealth forces were outnumbered by Italian forces.However the UK refused to accept German proposals for a peace that would involve accepting Germany's victories in Eastern and Western Europe, plans for a German invasion of the UK did not proceed, and the war continued.
On 24 July 1943, soon after the start of the Allied invasion of Italy, the Grand Council of Fascism voted against him, and the King had him arrested the following day. On 12 September 1943, Mussolini was rescued from prison in the Gran Sasso raid by German special forces. In late April 1945, with total defeat looming, Mussolini attempted to escape north, only to be quickly captured and summarily executed near Lake Como by Italian partisans. His body was then taken to Milan where it was hung upside down at a service station for public viewing and to provide confirmation of his demise.Battles here were deemed to be unfair or otherwise not in accordance with wiki standards, and have been removed from the statuses of the warriors and displayed below.
Battle vs. Chiang Kai-shek (by Happy9999)[]
Chiang : 
Mussolini : 
Mussolini was leading five Italian soldier down a neat path in Southern China, where his troops encountered Chiang and five KMT men. Both side recognized each other as enemy. One Italian threw a pipe bomb, killing a Chinese. Chiang ordered his machine-gunner to open fire. The M2 KMT gunner sprayed at the Italians. Though Mussolini shouted:'Attento a mitragliatrici!' and forced his men to dodge, two Italians were sprayed down . Chiang, who had just figured out what happened, yelled in Chinese: '敌兵在前面的山丘上，大家分散，从后面袭击！' Two of his men received his orders and edged themselves behind the hill where the Italians were standing. One aimed his mp-28 at Mussolini, but only to be spotted by a Blackshirt and got shot in his head by a Carcano .The second men threw an M-24 , blasted out the Carcano Italian . '是时候给敌兵最后一击了！' Hearing the bombing noise, Chiang ordered his troops to advanced. The first Chinese men who rushed up the hill was killed by Mussolini with his Modele 1934 . Another Italian held his trench knife, exerted himself to piercing it into next Chinese men's chest. However, his got cut by the MiaoDao before he could reached the Chinese's throat . Mussolini and his last men took out The Fucile Mitragliatore Breda modello 30, and used it to kill the M-24 KMT soldier. That's not long before Mussolini's last men was shot down by Chiang's Mosin-Nagant . Mussolini was in great panic, he had no choice but to escape to the other side of the hill. The last KMT soldier who was chasing him aimed his rifle at Mussolini, but Mussolini quickly took out an MAB-38 and shot him down. Mussolini ran in haste, gasping around. When he reached the valley, he took a deep breath. Suddenly, Chiang appeared with his Luger , and shot five bullets at Mussolini. Mussolini screamed and fell to the ground . 'Nice job, Benito,' thought Chiang,' If I'd been you, I'd have noticed that there'd been another path that led to the valley.'
Expert's Opinion[]
While both of them had been in army, the 1945 version of Mussolini was just lack of modern battle experience and strategy that led him to lose this battle against Chiang, who had been in army and leading forces to fight against other Chinese warlords and the Japanese for the last few decades.
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