European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I also want to add that what we did

get our country to move forward in all these years, everyone can see it.

Now I’m worried, I would be sad if this heritage were to be lost,

if the country didn’t preserve the values of our liberation struggle.

Especially looking back to the 600 partisans we lost, who were killed during the liberation war,

and not so much for us - but for our youth.

We need to pass on our memories to keep this alive, in order to move forward,

that’s what the country needs.

Because after all we did, all our efforts, we still have subversive forces in Rome,

we have Alessandra Mussolini, Fini, Berlusconi and Bossi, we don't support these reactionary people.

That’s why we want to tell our youth that in these times we must fight together,

and as much as we can, although it will never be enough, we’re here for them.

Partisan every day life; political commissars, why antifascism?

The last memory I have of my brother was after the mop-up of 1944.

With this song that went “The moon, the stars talked about love”.

It was hot then, they used to sing it on the radio.

“Oh what a pretty flower, oh what a pretty flower”.

That was the last time we were singing together, because he died

soon after in Ligonchio, near the house where I met my wife.

What did we do?