“Popular unity is possible and necessary around anti-fascism, without compromising on the other hand the variety and richness of the national community, social and political pluralism, the free and changeable articulation of majorities and minorities in the democratic game”. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, said this, quoting the words of Aldo Moro pronounced in 1975 during the celebration of the liberation day in Civitella Val di Chiana.
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“Fascism had actually, for some time, discovered its face, revealing its true brutal and inhuman traits. As the next centenary of the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti reminds us”, said Mattarella.
“It is necessary – today and in the future – to remember those “Nazi-fascist” massacres and those victims and the national and regional initiatives that support it are precious. Without memory, there is no future”.
“Totally subjected to Hitler’s imperialist Germany, fascist Italy – he added – having entered the conflict without any respect for the soldiers cynically sent to die, would still have had no escape. Luigi Salvatorelli noted precisely: ‘With the defeated it would have lost much, with victory everything…'”.
“The infamy of the Marzabotto massacre, the largest committed in Italy, was followed by an equally unworthy corollary: fascist propaganda, in newspapers subjected to controls and censorship, denied the undeniable, trying to deny what had happened, trying to define false the news of the massacre and mocking the witnesses”, concluded Mattarella.
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