April 25, was true glory?
History does not celebrate, you studies
of Gianfredo Ruggiero
With the approach of April 25 are continuing at a rapid pace re-enactment of historical events that led to the liberation of Italy from the fascist dictatorship and the memory of the exploits of the protagonists. All good except ...
crimes fascists now know almost everything, but the dark side of the resistance, the fact of personal revenge and hatred, summary trials and mass executions and the reasons not always noble, who led the partisans to cover the face and the rifle, what do we know? Soon, very soon.
For personal reasons I did not know fascism, and I, like most Italians, I grew up on bread and resistance having learned the story summary from textbooks and television programs. I just do not be content with the official truth, the written one of the winners, and I wanted to deepen my knowledge. The result was that gradually filled the void my doubts increased. Doubt that to date no one has been able to open.
The first question concerns the definition of the partisans as " patriots and freedom fighters " means the partisan movement was monopolized by the Communist Party, at the time of the direct emanation from which Soviet Russia was taking orders via Togliatti, a close associate of Stalin (who in fact lived in Russia). The stated objective of these partisans was to introduce in Italy after the war a communist state modeled and subjected to Soviet Russia, the so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat."
partisans fought so red against a regime, the fascist, but just to be replaced by another not much better. It is not clear on what basis then the logical and historical partisans can be defined as "patriots" and "freedom fighters" if most of them wanted to establish in Italy a ruthless dictatorship and in addition subject to a foreign power.
If Italy is now a Republic "democratic" (the concept of democracy - another major misunderstanding - return) is not for worth of partisans But by virtue of dividing the world into two opposing blocs, enacted in Yalta in '45, which led to our place in the American West and the consequent dependence.
The same concerns
not forget then that
important detail that the official history hides - because it would remove at a stroke, the argument of convenience of the "struggle of democracy against tyranny" - regards the declaration of war in the aftermath of the invasion of France and England German Poland was declared on Germany, but not to Russia despite having also attacked from the east
The second question concerns the definition of " War of Liberation " even though it was a classic and tragic civil war. I Fascists were not from Mars, as were Italian Italians were the partisans. In those long 18 months, the civil war did not spare anyone, through families and divided the brothers. The men lost their human dimension to approach the animal.
addition the Germans invaded Italy, there were already : after the fall of Mussolini on 25 July 1943 Badoglio government asked for help to counter the German dell'alleato Anglo Americans who had landed in Sicily in the meantime. The Italian soldiers and the Germans found themselves, therefore, to fight shoulder to shoulder against the American invader until 8 September '43, when the King and Badoglio, with extreme ease and leaving our military in disarray, bag and baggage passed the enemy , triggering the wrath of Hitler that Germany was preparing to deport all people with disabilities to work and completely dismantle our industrial infrastructure to reduce us to hunger, then slowed in its purposes from the birth of the Italian Social Republic with reconstruction of a loyalist army which consists, according to a study Silvio Bertoldi ("Soldiers Salò" ed. Rizzoli, Milan 1995) and confirmed by the register books in six hundred thousand (those were the partisans hand, is a mystery).
The German contribution to the defeat of the partisans was also marginal if they relate to the enormous military potential fielded by the Allies. Partisan swells the ranks as the German army retreated under the pressure of the Allies. The Americans themselves had a poor view of the partisans and tolerated them only because they did the dirty work for them as assassinate the leaders Fascists and then the bomb attacks to provoke reprisals that German was almost always cruel and inhumane (as happened with the Ardeatine result of partisan bomb Via Rasella German reservists who did massacre and destruction of an Italian woman with her her baby).
On 25 April of '45 in Milan, Mussolini was only after his departure to find death in the capital of Lombardy Dongo was "liberated" by the partisans who fled a real orgy of blood against the fascists and suspected , including their families. As well documented in books of Pansa, Ellena and Pisano and as evidenced by the inscription to Block 10 of the Cemetery of Milan that collects the remains of fascists (those that managed to recover, over a thousand) many of them barbarously murdered or shot after April 25.
The third question concerns how the struggle of the partisans. While the fascists were fighting in uniform and uncovered face, framed in the divisions of the Italian Social Republic or in the various militias, the partisans, however, although it can also dress up a uniform - being armed and financed by the Americans - and be able to fight alongside the Allies in the Italian Badoglio or according to the rules of war, they preferred the hood, the nicknames and the technique of hit and run attacks based , sabotage and murder behind. Technique is certainly less risky for them, but devastating in its effects. The purpose was indeed to provoke retaliation German and create the conditions for the civil war, then euphemistically called "liberation", the wounds still struggling to heal.
'm not sure I'd like to were to develop a debate, calmly and openly, with the aim to understand the history and not just as unfortunately happens to celebrate sixty years.
Gianfredo Ruggiero, president of Excalibur Circle - Varese
Circle Excalibur
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