The evening my grandfather came back from the war in Russia, he ate paniscia (traditional risotto recipe from Novara) and gorgonzola. The very same night, he joined the partisans in Val d'Ossola fighting against Nazi-Fascism (Photograph: Battaglia delle Casse, Val Formazza, 1944)
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Today is Liberation Day in Italy: Liberation from the Nazi-Fascist oppression. On this day, we also remember the sacrifice of young partisans who died for our freedom – my grandfather came back, many didn't. Our Deputy PM is boycotting this commemoration: Italy is in danger.
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"If you want to go on a pilgrimage to the place where our Constitution was born, go to the mountains, where partisans fell, to the prisons where they were incarcerated, and to the fields where they were hanged...
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... Wherever an Italian died to redeem freedom and dignity, go there young people and ponder: because that was where our Constitution was born" (Piero Calamandrei, 'Discorso ai giovani sulla Costituzione nata dalla Resistenza')
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Italian Partisan Women. Irma Bandiera (1915–1944) was a member of the seventh Gruppo di azione patriottica. In 1944, she was captured, blinded, and killed.
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Prosperina 'Lisetta' Vallet, partisan in the autonomous partisan brigade of the Vertosan Valley, Aosta Valley, and wife of partisan Rino Mion, who fought alongside her under codename Fulmine (November, 1944) italianintransito.com/2015/03/31/bel
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Mi son alzato
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
Una mattina mi son alzato
E ho trovato l'invasor
-my grandfather was a partisan too. I feel shadows of the past in today's world politics.
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