The Murder That Made Mussolini Immortal - June 10, 1924
About this episode
The episode discusses the kidnapping and murder of Giacomo Matteotti and the subsequent political crisis that allowed Mussolini to maintain power despite the turmoil.
On June 10, 1924, Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascist agents - and the political crisis that followed gave Mussolini's opponents every tool they needed to bring him down. What happened instead is one of the most instructive stories in the history of democratic failure: not a tale of villains and heroes, but of principled choices that produced catastrophic consequences, financial corruption that crossed international lines, and a dictator who survived not through brilliance, but through patience.
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