Patrick Geoghegan
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Instead you're exploring how he's remembered and the various different clouding of the Mussolini story.
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And in a way that contrast with Hitler and Stalin puts Mussolini in a good light, that they're seen as the terrible dictators and Mussolini was maybe not as bad.
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Y you have a chapter on exploding the myth of good natured fascism that you have to explore what that idea is and then you have to kind of dismantle it piece by piece.
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And that idea of a mass consensus about what Mussolini and that fascist regime represented, is that because it is too it is too upsetting for Italian people to have to confront the reality of that regime?
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It was a violent regime, it was a highly repressive regime.
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It's just the propaganda that projects a different image.
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I'm interested in your subtitle, The First Totalitarian Dictator, because there seems to be different elements to that.
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There's the there is the immediate influence on on on other dictators, on people like Hitler and Mussolini provides a handbook and an inspiration, but then there's the longer legacy as well in terms of strong leadership and how that's presented and the normalization of fascism.
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I just wonder when you look at the final years, the final days of Mussolini, how would you see his leadership during that period?
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Because again there's maybe an image that he's the sidekick of Hitler, not really respected or or or valued and and that he he's seen as maybe almost like a something of a joke in those final years, having to be rescued, finally you know, then being executed that it's it's
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It's it's a very ignominious end for the the world's first totalitarian dictator.
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Well, yeah.
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Well, Paul, thanks so much for joining us tonight to talk about Mussolini in Myth and Memory.
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The book is subtitled The First Totalitarian Dictator.
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It's published in Hardback by Oxford University Press, the author, Paul Corner.
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And Paul, thanks so much for joining us.
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We'll be back with more talking history on News Talk right after this.
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Well, welcome back to Talking History.
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Edda Mussolini was Benita Mussolini's favourite daughter, and from her early twenties she was effectively First Lady of Italy, and a new book on her life explores fascist Italy with all its glamour, decadence, and political intrigue, as well as the turbulence before its violent end.
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The book is called Edda Mussolini, the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe.
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