"Mussolini had been envious of the bolsheviks and for a while fancied himself as the Lenin of Italy."
— Benito Mussolini

January 1, 1970

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Denis Mack Smith, Modern Italy: A Political History, University of Michigan Press (1997) p. 284, called himself the "Lenin of Italy" in 1919.