Ideas · 2026-09-07 · 55 min · 8,662 words

What Mussolini's rise and fall reveals about modern authoritarianism

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Wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC Podcast. Welcome to IDAS. I'm Naла Aed. This is got fit told, but Speaking from Rome.

on Jun fifth NT forty four BBC correspondent Godfrey Talbot. Stood in Rome's piazza Venecia. Staring up at the famous balkaні. Where Beni tu Mussolini had just one year prior.

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