Mussolini, being quite clever and devious in his own way, knew how to deal with this problem. ... These men would deal with troublemakers of the general sense (and sometimes the political dissenter sense) and they would also deal with criminals the current government lacked effective enforcement. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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