• and organized fascist rallies around Columbus Day to link ancient Roman imperialism, 15th-century exploration, and Fascist Italy's own colonial ambitions in Africa.
Benito Mussolini didn't ruin Christopher Columbus, he acted like an extension and continuation of him; Fascist Propaganda. In the 1920s and 1930s, Benito Mussolini's regime heavily promoted Columbus to glorify Italian greatness, famously branding Italians as a nation of "saints, poets, and navigators".
