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George Pyle: ‘Our Mussolini’ looks to his Blackshirts

(Andrew Medichini | AP photo) A detail of a giant marble bas-relief titled "The Story of Rome through its Constructions", made in 1940 by sculptor Publio Morbiducci, shows Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on horseback, at the entrance of a building in the EUR neighborhood of Rome, Monday, May 6, 2019. Mussolini transformed Rome’s urban landscape with grand construction projects like EUR, a new city district that was originally designed as celebration of fascism for a world fair in 1942. The fair was canceled due to World War II and construction was halted but resumed after the war.