European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We didn't shoot, but some other partisans did,
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from another side, they fired some shots and with their mortars the Germans made them run, they're still running now.
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Instead, we should have take them by surprise!
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Joining the partisans
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Later I went up to the mountains and gave myself this nickname, "Mirko".
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He was a Yugoslavian partisan leader, a tough guy of whom we were very afraid.
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On the mountains I also got to know "Frigio",
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the one that wrote books about the Resistance. He was a sergeant, too.
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He knew some people and we established some contacts this way.
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By then we used to ride bicycles, he was displaced to Barco di Bibbiano
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and so he used to give us a ride with the bike but it was risky,
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you could see he was a youngster in his twenties
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and we didn't have documents, nothing at all, so it was risky for us to be caught by the fascists.
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But everything went well; thanks to him we got involved and went up to Cà Roma,
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which was a small house near Canossa, an isolated peasant's house.
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That was where the partisans were staying,
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they were waiting to get in touch with the commanders up there.
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We were quite a few, though: when we started there were 45 of us
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and to the time we arrived at the Villa Minozzo
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and at some other village in the province of Modena, I can't remember the name now,
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