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Originally Posted by Theobald
Mussolini started as a Republican and ended up Republican, so you were quite right. 
About his will to conquer and create a new Roman Empire, what I meant is "I don't think that anyone ever took seriously his pretentions to a new Roman Empire, not even himself." |
Roman Empire probably meant for him a vision of an enlarged and strengthened Italy, not the old-time Roman Empire. It was, as you already pointed out, more of a slogan than an actual political plan.