The morality of this story is very complicated, as there is nobody here to root for. Still, in 1924, Benito Mussolini, the Italian Fascist prime minister and a personal hero of another to-be dictator, Adolf Hitler, launched a campaign to destroy the Sicilian Mafia.

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