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Napoleon and Mussolini

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2012

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Alan Forrest considers how Napoleon used art as propaganda, while Christopher Duggan argues that Mussolini was a popular ruler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It excludes vehicles and business sellers. But what the paintings display is a man of a rather rare compassion, not just a great general, but somebody who would sympathise, who could

1:28.4

empathise with his troops.

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That was Alan Forrest on Napoleon's propaganda painting.

1:34.7

What's very interesting about the culture of Mussolini, I think, is the way in which people

1:38.6

bend over backwards, almost instinctively, I think, to try and give him the benefit of the doubt.

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And that was Christopher Duggan on Fascist Italy.

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