European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Although I was quite young, I was very curious. I had always been like that.
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The older men liked me. They started to explain to me what I had known only in general terms.
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What fascism really was, the real reasons behind its existence,
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for it was only violence and ignorance to me at that time.
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These men were generally Communists and Socialists.
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I began to understand and to see things from a different point of view that attracted me more.
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I had made friends with the young men who came to our bar.
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When they left for war I became their communication point.
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They were writing from Africa,
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from France, from Russia, asking for news about each other.
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I started to have a broader view of the war, compared to those who only had letters from their relatives.
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Introduction, family
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I was born in Roncolo di Quattro Castella on the 21st of May 1921.
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We were a family of farmers, but our roots were different.
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My grandfather had been studying to become a music teacher until the age of 20 and had founded the band of Vezzano.
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My grandmother was the daughter of the town-clerk of Vezzano,
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a post that he held as he took part in the struggle for Italian unification, along with his brother, Baroni Radighieri.
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My grandparents had both studied a lot more than farmers would have normally done.
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For instance, my grandmother would, as a woman, read the newspaper every day,
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which my father always referred to as an example, regarding the importance for a woman to also be cultured.
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