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Summary:Benito Mussolini liked to portray himself as a simple man. Opening a new urban development outside Rome on April 20 1936, he drove a tractor, but on the same day his army and air force were slaughtering ill-equipped Abyssinians fighting to stem the invasion of their country.
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Location:ITALY ROME ROMA EUR
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