 He noted that dictatorship was an ideal for later on, and that the LVȚ only hoped to prepare the terrain for its application.Despite becoming known abroad as Romania's "Baby Fascist", Filipescu openly rejected Italian fascism, which he often derided in his "Epoca" articles.His "extreme" approach was also directed against local fascists, such as in July 1930, when he demanded the reintroduction of capital punishment, especially for his former associate Beza.