Mussolini loved pizza - Medinsky President's assistant Vladimir Medinsky talked about Benito Mussolini's taste preferences. - As we know, the Italian dictator loved the local cuisine. It is a national color and patriotism raised to the level of an ideal. We see this as the formation of fascism. Pizza is Benito's favorite dish. Of course, in Russian schools the appearance of this dish was initially a strange phenomenon. It's impossible these days," Medinsky says.