This is quite right and it’s really fundamental for propaganda. However, in that time literature, art, theater, and sports were encouraged and admired.
But for good or for bad, he achieved incredible results, which no Italian government has yet achieved, nor is planning to do. Nowadays, it’s just a talking bla bla bla and no consistency.
We are drowning. Italy is a country in the hands of incompetent and confused pseudo-politicians.
That’s why I’m having conflicting feelings about that period of our history.