European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

That was when we split up. Me and my brother Portos were both students,

so we went to Montecchio,

at Montecchio we owned a nice little house.

It had already started ...

I was friends with the family of Jones Bertolini

who was a really passionate partisan, he got the silver medal,

that was when I became a communist. His mother was an anti-fascist,

the father had to emigrate to France,

they were really poor. I'd seen him only once

when he came back to Montecchio to meet his parents.

I remember I saw him killing a chicken with a sling

and then taking it home to eat it.

A really terrible poverty. That was when I ...

I didn't fancy that lady, she was good and kind

but she swore so much against that stubborn (Mussolini) who sent people to die ...

I wished she was a little bit more gentle but she was right in many ways.

After the war

That day, I think it was May 3rd, we made the parade and then we went to the square.

We had to turn over our weapons but, I tell you the truth, this was kind of hard for me.

It was a nice Stan, shiny and clean, I had taken care for it like a brother