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description: "He founded fascism, turned Italy into a one-party dictatorship, and led the country into catastrophic alliance with Nazi Germany during World War II. Communist partisans executed him and his mistress near the Swiss border as the Axis collapsed."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mussolini began as a socialist journalist at Avanti! and joined the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party in 1912, but was expelled for advocating military intervention in the First World War. He founded the newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia in 1914, served in the Royal Italian Army until wounded in 1917, then broke decisively with socialism to create the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento in 1919, advocating "revolutionary nationalism" that transcended class lines. After the March on Rome in October 1922, King Victor Emmanuel III appointed him prime minister; within five years he had dismantled opposition and built a totalitarian state. His foreign policy arc bent from cautious pragmatism through the 1935 invasion of Ethiopia — which isolated Italy diplomatically and pushed him toward Hitler — to the Rome-Berlin Axis in 1936 and the Pact of Steel in 1939. He entered World War II in June 1940 expecting quick German victory, but defeats and the Allied landing in Sicily led the Grand Council of Fascism to strip his power in July 1943. The Germans rescued him to head a puppet regime in the north, but as the Allies closed in he attempted to flee to Switzerland