“[On Mussolini as the greatest political leader of the century] The answer is in the things I've done in the last years. I don't think the same anymore, I would be schyzophrenic.”

— Gianfranco Fini

cited in Corriere della sera http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/marzo/26/Fini_Mussolini_piu_grande_Ora_co_9_090326029.shtml, 26 March 2009, p. 14.

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“[On Mussolini as the greatest political leader of the century] The answer is in the things I've done in the last years. I don't think the same anymore, I would be schyzophrenic.”

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