There's a TV clip of the 19-year-old Giorgia Meloni, out electioneering in 1996, where she makes a comment about Benito Mussolini. Most Italians consider Mussolini – the fascist, dictator and World War II ally of Adolf Hitler – a stain on their country's past. But, in this clip, Meloni is not one of them. "I think Mussolini was a good politician. Everything he did, he did for Italy," she told the interviewer. "And we haven't had any politicians like that in the past 50 years." Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler watch a Nazi parade staged for the Italian dictator's visit...
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