European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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There we saw Barbolini’s sister, Sonia, who was desperate.
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Our wounded men had already been taken there.
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She told us that a German unit from Cinque Cerri was on its way.
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If that company made it over there, it would have been a slaughtering for us.
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We didn’t have enough cover to draw back since the mountain behind us had more than a meter of snow.
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If we withdrew like that they would have shot us.
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It was almost noon at that point,
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and it wasn’t clear if we were winning or losing the battle.
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Then the fascists started singing “Battaglione”.
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“Battaglioni” was a song which read:
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“Battalions of the Duce, death squads, created for life,
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in spring we’ll take part in the battle of Mussolini, brave troops…”
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They sang for 5 or 10 minutes.
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After a while our side was singing “Bandiera rossa”:
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“Bandiera rossa, let’s go, at arms, etc.”
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I was really surprised because I didn’t even know these songs, not even “Bandiera rossa”.
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What happened next?
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The fascists had found out that there was a column of people coming.
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They thought it was Germans or fascists but it was our own people.
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It was Luigi, who had been informed about the battle in Cerrè after he had disarmed the fascists in Gatta.
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