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Controversial Mussolini App Pulled From Apple Store

By Theunis BatesFeb 4th 2010 – 3:20PM
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LONDON (Feb. 4) – An iPhone application that was condemned by Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors for allowing users to download the speeches of Italy's World War II dictator, Benito Mussolini, has been withdrawn from Apple's online store. The program, called iMussolini, soared in its first week on the market to...

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  • 05/19/12 Mussolini's diaries and the “treasure of Dongo” Source: 3quarksdaily Soon after Benito Mussolini and his long-time mistress Claretta Petacci were shot dead on April 28, 1945, questions began to be asked.
  • 05/18/12 Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right Source: The How-To Travel Guru - CBS News Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany.
  • 05/17/12 Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European national legislature since Nazi-era Germany.
  • 05/17/12 Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right Source: ABC - WICS TV NewsChannel 20 - Springfield IL Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it the most far-right party to enter a European legislature since Nazi-era Germany.
  • 05/11/12 LETTER: The radical right Source: Northwest Florida Daily News - Fort Walton Beach FL The simple truth is that if the Republican Party didn't exist in America today, then the Democratic Party, based upon any reasonable international political standard, would be revealed as a right-of-center political party with strong, pro-capitalist economic policies and sensible, moderate social policies.

Background on Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party, ruling the country from 1922 to his ousting in 1943, and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of fascism.

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