Benito Mussolini was the Fascist dictator of Italy. A lifelong socialist intellectual and self-proclaimed "socialist heretic", he was nominated prime minister by Vittorio Emmanuel III di Savoia, King of Italy, in the time of World War II. He was head of one of the strong forms of government seen in Europe in this time. He created the political structure Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, which is what later would be known as Fascism, a term which was later used to describe the merging of government and corporation. He was responsible for several war crimes in Ethiopia and Yugoslavia.
References
- Mussolini appears seated with Adolf Hitler and German Air Marshal Hermann Goering in a flashback in the episode "Whacking Day".
- In the episode "The Italian Bob", Homer makes gestures reminiscent of Mussolini when presented to an Italian village. When Lisa calls him out on this, he says that he thought he was imitating Donald Trump.
Trivia
- Milhouse's maternal grandmother, Nana Sophie, shares the surname "Mussolini."
Appearances
Episode – "Whacking Day" (Flashback)
- Episode – "The Italian Bob" (Mentioned)
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