Mussolini and Hitler saw that an alliance between them will be useful for both sides and their interests, and they did so, formed an alliance and acted as one in the World War II. Mussolini though adopted several things from Hitler after the alliance was established. He saw that some of the methods that Hitler was using to hold his power firmly were very effective, so Mussolini started to use them. He was becoming more and more ultra right wing, which was the total opposite of his initial ideology, the socialism. Also, he started to ''move out'' everyone out of the scene that he saw as potential threat, focused a lot on the control of the media, as well as having very strong propaganda mechanism, all of which came to be very useful for him.
