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FILE - In this Thursday, April 12, 2018 file photo, Forza Italia Leader Silvio Berlusconi, center, Brothers of Italy party Leader Giorgia Meloni, left, and Northern League Leader Matteo Salvini meet journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace after talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, in Rome. Italy’s politically battered Matteo Salvini and ally Giorgia Meloni are preparing for a weekend march on Rome to rally the right-wing after Salvini’s political miscalculation got him ousted from his powerful post as interior minister. Meloni’s post-fascist Brothers Of Italy party is growing in popularity as Italy’s political landscape shifts even more toward the right. Salvini calls the rally “a peaceful day of Italian pride” but many believe it will attract far-right extremists. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Giorgia Meloni is rising star on Italy’s far-right stage

By GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press

A bronze sculpture by Italo Griselli, known under the Fascist regime as &quot;Saluto Fascista&quot; (Fascist Salute) and after the war renamed Genio dello Sport (Genius of Sport), stands at the entrance of a fascist architecture building in the EUR neighborhood, in Rome, Monday, May 6, 2019. Mussolini transformed Rome’s urban landscape with grand construction projects like EUR, a new city district that was originally designed as celebration of fascism for a world fair in 1942. The fair was canceled due to WWII and construction was halted but resumed after the war. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

AP PHOTOS: Fascist legacy endures in Rome’s architecture

By ANDREW MEDICHINI AND BEATRICE LARCO - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Saturday, May 4, 2019, Brothers of Italy party candidate for the upcoming EU elections, Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, delivers his speech during a campaign rally, in Sirignano, southern Italy. Mussolini’s name remains part of the political discourse, first with lawmaker Alessandra Mussolini, Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter who started out with a now defunct neo-fascist party, and now with his great-grandson, Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, who is running with the far-right Brothers of Italy party in the European elections. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Fascist symbols and rhetoric on rise in Italian EU vote

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

People take part in a Liberation Day march in Rome, Thursday, April 25, 2019. Italian leaders are holding observances on Liberation Day, which celebrates the end of the country’s fascist dictatorship during World War II, with appeals against glorifying dictator Benito Mussolini. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy marks liberation anniversary as some glorify Mussolini

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Third Mussolini descendent enters Italian political arena

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Mussolini and Hitler’ by Christian Goeschel

By Joseph C. Goulden

FILE - In this June 19, 1938 file photo, the Italian soccer team perform the fascist salute in Colombes Stadium, Paris, before the start of the World Cup soccer final match against Hungary. Earlier in the tournament that was taking place amid the drumbeat of war, the team caused consternation by wearing black shirts in a match. The 21st World Cup begins on Thursday, June 14, 2018, when host Russia takes on Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/File)

WORLD CUP: With war looming, Italy dons black in 1938

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

In this photo taken during the filming of the movie &quot;I'm Back&quot;, actor Massimo Popolizio, who plays the part of Benito Mussolini, stands in front of a giant image of the late dictator. A new film opening in Italy proposes the once-unthinkable return of dictator Benito Mussolini to current-day Italy, smack in the middle of an election campaign dominated by populist and neo-fascist sentiments. &quot;I'm Back,&quot; is the Italian riff on the 2015 German film &quot;Look Who's Back,&quot; which hypothesized a modern-day resurrection for Adolf Hitler. (Claudio Iannone via AP Photo)

Italy: As election nears, film imagines Mussolini’s comeback

By NICOLE WINFIELD and MARIAGRAZIA MURRU - Associated Press

A man holds the ANPI (Italian Partisans Association) flag during a demonstration staged by the Democratic party, in Como, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. Italys governing Democrats have led a rally to warn about fascisms making a comeback in the nation, which had suffered under fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.vSeveral thousand people turned out in Como, northern Italy, where recently right-wing extremists interrupted an NGO meeting about migrants housing. Earlier this week, a neo-fascist party attacked the Rome office of a liberal newspaper. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italian bill would ban images of Benito Mussolini to curb fascism

By By Stefano Graziosi — Special to The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a speech to a rally in Oklahoma City, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Trump goes on defense over Mussolini quote, David Duke endorsement

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Illustration on the redrawn map of the world by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Aggressive nations expanding sovereignty

By Victor Davis Hanson

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination’

By Martin Rubin

Benito Mussolini's first air raid shelter, created in old wine cellars, is seen during a visit for the press in Villa Torlonia in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. After the outbreak of World War II, the shelter was quickly constructed in 1940 in what had been the wine cellar of Torlonia noble family, who lived there before Mussolini took up residence during his Fascist rule. The city of Rome now owns the villa and opened the shelter to tourists with reservations starting from Oct. 31. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Mussolini air raid shelter opens to tourists

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Italian winemaker Alessandro Lunardelli says the vino with labels of Hitler — some with Nazi slogans — Mussolini and others is"not meant to offend anyone." The L.A.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, however, is offended, saying the wine "mocks Hitler's victims." (associated press)

Furor over fuehrer in the wine aisle

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times