And Mussolini buried democracy in the Chamber

The one in which he claimed political responsibility for the Matteotti murder and said that he would use force to stay in power, as he later did

The second episode of the story of January 3, 1925. The award-winning author Strega reconstructs the speech a hundred years ago in which the Duce assumed “political, moral and historical responsibility” for the Matteotti crime. In the silence of the opponents

On January 3, 1925, Benito Mussolini delivered a speech before the Italian Parliament considered the tipping point towards totalitarianism. A hundred years later, while Giorgia Meloni's far-right party is in power, nostalgia for fascism is back in force in Italy.

Italian leader Benito Mussolini made a major speech in the Italian Parliament on 3 January 1925. After that, Mussolini became definitively dictator and Italy a totalitarian fascist state.