Benito Mussolini in prison as Mussolini made it absolutely clear that he did not want his soldiers and officials serving in Ethiopia to ever have sex with Ethiopian women under any circumstances as he believed that multiracial relationships made his men less likely to kill Ethiopians. Mussolini favored a policy of brutality partly because he believed the Ethiopians were not a nation because black people were too stupid to have a sense of nationality and therefore the guerrillas were just "bandits". The other reason was because Mussolini was planning on bringing millions of Italian colonists into Ethiopia and he needed to kill
Benito Mussolini topical insult of "chisler". William Saroyan wrote a short story about Mussolini in his 1971 book, "Letters from 74 rue Taitbout or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody". More serious biographical depictions include Rod Steiger in Carlo Lizzani's 1974 movie "Last Days of Mussolini", and George C. Scott's portrayal in the 1985 television mini-series "Mussolini: The Untold Story". Another 1985 movie was "Mussolini and I", in which Bob Hoskins plays the dictator (with Susan Sarandon as his daughter Edda and Anthony Hopkins as Count Ciano). Actor Antonio Banderas also played the title role in "Benito" in