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Show When Fascisti Was Born Fascisti is the name given to the members of a movement formed in Italy in 1020 to offset the work of the "reds" and radicals in that country who had become powerful during the World war. The Fascisti, Fascis-ti, headed by Benito Mussolini, seized control of the Italian government gov-ernment on October 30, 1922, and affirmed their allegiance to the king. Mussolini's government became be-came that of a dictator, supported by the king. The emblem of the Fascisti originated . In the word fasces, which was a bundle of rods, containing an ax, carried by the lie-tors lie-tors before the magistrates of ancient an-cient Rome as a symbol of authority. |