"... What imaginary massacres are never responsible for boredom and laziness of the province, and how in fact if the sidewalk in front of the stone should be slashed sudden explosion of a mine to which the foot of the stranger, of the unaware, is about to accidentally bump the trigger. Or as if a quick hail of machine gun firing just fascist there, from under the portico of the Coffee Exchange, on the night of December 1943 struck down the same sidewalk eleven citizens, may also have performed at Inc. through the same short, orribiledanza all jerks and twists in the moment of death that no doubt completed, prior to fall lifeless to one another, those that history has for years devoted as the first victims in time of civil war Italian. "
from" A Night of '43 "in Five Stories of Ferrara G. Bassani
in a photo shot of film "The Long Night of '43 "by F. Vancini
Civil War, a war to which the youth of this country is morally sound was heard calling in the formations partigiane.Una undeclared war fought and suffered, but also the civilian population through the Nazi killings and reprisals. A war with two sides of the conflict that one can never historically equate ethics. Regardless of any revisionist or naive to be hired.
And to those who consider the value passed, and even those whose anti-fascism is now only a rhetorical exercise, remember the words written by John Fish Gappisti in the preface to his memoirs entitled "Hard Target"
"What is left of the heroism of men"? Only the dear memory of the martyrs and the memory of the best? Humans create and disappear. And their works? And the work is more solid anti-fascist Italy, peace and brotherhood of peoples. And 'the work of the stars of "No Truce". It's up to young people to continue the resistance. "
was 1967, but sometimes it seems a thousand years ago.
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