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presented as the hero of the people. Newspaper pages were adorned with
pictures of him flying planes, jumping hurdles on horseback, swimming,
skiing in the Alps, fencing, in parachutist costume etc.
So effective was this propaganda that even his oldest friends used to
stand to attention whenever they saw him. Thus Mussolini was able to satisfy
his enormous ego, not even allowing his oldest friends to sit down, but
keeping them on their feet for hours.
The methods employed to portray the fascist leader as superhuman,
during the eras of Hitler and Mussolini, are also used by modern fascists in our
own time. The fascist dictator in Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is such an example.
For years, the streets of fascist Iraq have been covered with huge pictures of
him. And, in them, he is shown in different roles as leader of the people: as a
farmer in the country, a worker in a factory, as a soldier in the barracks. He
makes his presence felt everywhere, in an attempt to give the impression of

A PEOPLE HYPNOTIZED BY NAZI PROPAGANDA COULD NOT SEE THE TRUTH
Filled with awe for Hitler, the German people were capable of ignoring the
above evidence of massacres and torture.