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Pius XI
Roman Catholic Pope

"One of the most evil and strongest influences that is felt here, perhaps
the strongest and most evil, is that of the Jews."*

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Pope Pius XI was born on May 31, 1857 in Desio, Italy as Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti. He became pope on February 6, 1922 and died February 10, 1939. I consider him to be one of the principle architects of the modern totalitarian state, and of fascism. In his encyclical Quadragesimo Anno he criticized socialism, communism and free-market capitalism while recommending a fascist social system.

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*Achille Ratti, later Pope Pius XI, report from Poland to Pietro Gasparri, January 9, 1919, quoted in The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer, Random House, 2014