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I also had a lot of trust in the partisans.

I found myself in that house with this Russian,

who was a captain and was smoking cigarettes with ease.

So I was in no doubt that things would go well.

I didn’t even think I could be killed, that was the problem:

I trusted the partisans and was really calm.

Afterwards, by the time things had changed and I also had military functions,

I would have been more prepared in assessing danger.

In that case, we were in that house and that was it.

We were there because it was a strategic spot and we could not give it up.

The battle of Cerré Sologno

Luigi was supposed to go with 30 men to blow up the Gatta Bridge

and disarm the garrison guarding it.

The rest of the group had to go to Ligonchio

and neutralize the garrison counting something like 20 or 25 fascists. So we left.

We didn’t even have dinner because we had marched for a long time to make it to Santonio.

We didn’t stop.

Half way between Santonio and Ligonchio, in Cerrè Sologno,

at seven in the morning, we couldn’t move any further during the day

because the German reconnaissance airplanes were flying over the area and would have spotted us.