Benito Mussolini, in my experience, is typically characterized as a bumbling idiot, primarily due to Italy's terrible performance in WWII. Did his leadership inpact Italy in any positive way prior to the war?
The Lateran Concordat was signed on February 11, 1929 by Benito Mussolini and Cardinal Pietro Gasparri. Why was this a success for Mussolini? The Papal States had been reduced to holding only Rome and her surroundings in 1860-61, and the area around St. Peter’s Cathedral in 1870. From then on, Italy was a unified nation with Rome as its capital, but the “Roman question” lingered. This question refers to how the papacy and the new Italian state would deal with each other. For nearly 60 years, there was an uneasy standoff between the two entities. The Lateran Concordat—still in effect today—resolved those issues. The Vatican was an independent nation (see Article 3). It was also restricted to strict neutrality in foreign affairs (see Article 24).
This was a major success as it was a diplomatic resolution to a long-standing issue for the Italian state, and Mussolini’s signature was quite literally on the bottom line. Relations with the papacy were normalized after nearly 60 years of uncertainty and the treaty is largely unchanged to this day, which is a major success just about any way you look at it.
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Well he did kind of stabilize his country during the interwar phase and he also fought the mafia.So basically yes he did something good