by Alessandro Sallusti
They call her “liberation” but in reality it is imprisonment. Every year the 25 April takes the Italians prisoners and forces them to witness the conflict between alleged partisans and phantom fascists
They call it "liberation" but in reality it is imprisonment. Every year, dal 1946, il 25 April takes Italians prisoners and forces them to witness three days of conflict between alleged partisans and phantom fascists.
The names of the parties change and even the political framework but the 25 April no, it is repeated with the same liturgy and with the same slogans regardless of reality, with an emphasis and a rhetoric almost as if the enemy were still at the gates and the resisters were up in the mountains fighting.
Given that, in order not to offend the "new" Italians, there are those who have gone so far as to deny the celebration of Christmas, it would be nice if, in order not to offend the intelligence of all Italians, they would stop with the verbal re-edition of a civil war that – yes that one – it was a serious matter and produced unnecessary deaths on both sides. Il 25 April is a partisan holiday in the sense of party. We remember not the beneficial end of a dictatorship, which is more than legitimate – but a history rewritten for the use and consumption of the winners. Which, until 24 April 1945, certainly they were not in appreciable numbers in the streets armed but locked up at home waiting for the liberators of the Anglo-American armies and then venting their revenge in the following days with the same ferocity as their predecessors.
Everyone reads history as they want, but it is the news that is objectively cloying. Not even the young Di Maio (we are talking about facts concerning your grandfather) he managed to avoid paying the tax and will parade tomorrow, it is not clear in what capacity, at the head of one of the many marches pointing the finger at the "fascist" Salvini, which is fine for going to government but which becomes a public danger during elections.
Already, because the problem is precisely and only this: out of hypocrisy, It has nothing to do with memory or even history, and poem by vote. In fact, elections are almost always around May, il 25 April most of the time falls in the middle of the election campaign. So what better opportunity to go to the streets to defend, from those who don't understand, the «Republic born from anti-fascism» (it would be more truthful to say: born thanks to the Americans and Churchill).
The fact that for the rest of the year this Republic is constantly mistreated and humiliated by inadequate policies by the patriots themselves is considered a secondary thing. Ultimately you just need to wait for others 12 months until the 25 following April, and for the umpteenth time even the mediocre and cowardly will be able to go back to calling themselves statesmen and lions for one day.
Given that, in order not to offend the "new" Italians, there are those who have gone so far as to deny the celebration of Christmas, it would be nice if, in order not to offend the intelligence of all Italians, they would stop with the verbal re-edition of a civil war that – yes that one – it was a serious matter and produced unnecessary deaths on both sides. Il 25 April is a partisan holiday in the sense of party. We remember not the beneficial end of a dictatorship, which is more than legitimate – but a history rewritten for the use and consumption of the winners. Which, until 24 April 1945, certainly they were not in appreciable numbers in the streets armed but locked up at home waiting for the liberators of the Anglo-American armies and then venting their revenge in the following days with the same ferocity as their predecessors.
Everyone reads history as they want, but it is the news that is objectively cloying. Not even the young Di Maio (we are talking about facts concerning your grandfather) he managed to avoid paying the tax and will parade tomorrow, it is not clear in what capacity, at the head of one of the many marches pointing the finger at the "fascist" Salvini, which is fine for going to government but which becomes a public danger during elections.
Already, because the problem is precisely and only this: out of hypocrisy, It has nothing to do with memory or even history, and poem by vote. In fact, elections are almost always around May, il 25 April most of the time falls in the middle of the election campaign. So what better opportunity to go to the streets to defend, from those who don't understand, the «Republic born from anti-fascism» (it would be more truthful to say: born thanks to the Americans and Churchill).
The fact that for the rest of the year this Republic is constantly mistreated and humiliated by inadequate policies by the patriots themselves is considered a secondary thing. Ultimately you just need to wait for others 12 months until the 25 following April, and for the umpteenth time even the mediocre and cowardly will be able to go back to calling themselves statesmen and lions for one day.
SOURCE – http://m.ilgiornale.it/news/2019/04/24/prigionieri-della-liberazione/1683753/
