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More than eight decades after his death, the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini continues to be a divisive force in Italy as thousands of towns and cities seek to revoke his honorary citizenship, according to a report. The bulk of Italy’s 8,000 municipalities made Mussolini, who with Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler constituted the “axis of evil” during World War II, an honorary citizen under decree by his fascist regime, the Guardian reported. Some towns, like Naples and Matera, reversed course in 1944, but the movement stagnated for years until the National Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI),…

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