But, of course, there is a glaring one: Almirante played a major role in the antisemitic propaganda of Mussolini’s regime.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/06/why-giorgia-meloni-wont-distance-herself-from-italys-fascist-past/

Her Brothers of Italy party, named after the first words of Italy’s national anthem, has roots in a party founded by nostalgists for fascism following the demise of dictator Benito Mussolini’s regime.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/27/biden-thanks-far-right-italian-premier-meloni-for-her-strong-support-of-ukraine/

In Russia, then in Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany and elsewhere, including modern China, Leninism provided a new model of government: the party-state.

Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/09/10/opinion-george-will-economically-ailing-china-suffers-from-an-incurable-case-of-leninism/

Meloni frequently opens political speeches by saying “I am a mother” and uses Mussolini’s old slogan of “Dio, patria, famiglia” (“God, fatherland, family”).

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/07/italy-births-far-right-demographic-winter

The Lynx started off in 1936 in Mussolini’s propaganda films.

Source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/lynx-story-worst-bomber-ever-fly-207964