Spiderman
Veteran Member
Unlike most politicians, Mussolini could knock most people out in the ring. He was a street fighter, a fencer, and a seasoned sword dueller. He was a total bad a$$ but also a gifted writer and extremely intelligent. The Italian people were in need of a strong leader , and he was the guy.Stalin's early intervention saved Europe from Hitler, and under him Soviet Russia rapidly achieved staggering scientific heights. It's not like it was all, entirely, purely bad, but WWII taught us that extreme totalitarian autocrats, Left and Right alike, all suck. Mao is not without his supporters and admirers, but the man was still guilty of genocide among other crimes. Che Guevara fought against Capitalist and Imperialist oppression. He also advocated, promoted, and attempted to pursued Stalin into pursuing total and global nuclear war so they could build a communist utopia from the ashes. The Bushido of Japanese, fiercely loyal, highly tradition, many admirable traits, they still butchered the Chinese and today the problems with their Conservativism manifests in ways such as any discussions of mental illness being strongly taboo, even among one's family. I can praise Mitch Daniels for being the first governor in America to tell Westboro Baptist Church they couldn't conduct their funeral protests anywhere near a funeral proceeding, but that doesn't excuse the bad stuff he did, such as seeing Prozac as a cash cow instead of medicine when he was an executive of Elli Lilly.
He marched on Rome and dismantled the cradle of democracy without bloodshed or coup. He wrote the Doctrine of a stronger government, restored order, brought economic miracles, made Italians proud, motivated the demoralized, created jobs, gave Farmers free land, created many beautiful structures, created excitement, entertainment, euphoria, patriotism, and restored Italy to much of the glory that she used to have.
That is extremely impressive and could only be accomplished by a person who is most gifted and a genius.
Those things should be acknowledged.