The speeches that were delivered by Benito Mussolini at the time of the introduction of the laws by Italy, which singled out against Jews, are one of the most downloaded items on iTunes website of the Italian version of Apple. Known as the iMussolini, the application has gained huge popularity which has been the major reason of outrage among some Italians.

There are comments galore on the website which condemns the ongoing fascination with Mussolini with one of the members of the Italian Communist Party calling the application as disgraceful. There are as many as 100 of II Duce’s speeches in the application which are available to the users at 79 euro cents. Its download also outnumbered the video game which was based on Cameron’s blockbuster fiction Avatar.

Luigi Marino, the creator of the application had no intention of eulogizing the fascist era; his aim was to depict a sad page in the history of their country he said. The application since its launch on Jan 21 has been downloaded almost a thousand times every day by the users apart from the first two days

Mr. Marino has been thinking to collect the speeches of some other historical figures and intends to do one on Gandhi. The newspaper La Republica on the other hand, termed its popularity as stunning simply because iTunes is more popular with the younger generation. Although it has been 65 long years since Mussolini was strung up, his souvenirs are still doing great business online and even in Predappio, which is his hometown.