European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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There were only a few people from Emilia and many Sardinians, many from Calabria,
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poor guys with little schooling, mostly illiterates.
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In fact I became a sergeant because I had gone to elementary school,
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I had some knowledge, I was able to read.
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I mean, I was a bit more than a poor silly guy like them..
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They were having a hard time; they didn't know how to write.
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I wrote home for them, to their girlfriends,
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even though I didn't know what to say to a girlfriend, that's the truth.
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Then, one day, I even took a school book from a friend of mine
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and taught these guys how to write and count.
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I taught them in the moments in which we had nothing to do, were just getting bored.
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But in Yugoslavia we fought a lot and the partisans bombed us often, we had many casualties.
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I was all over Yugoslavia, from Zagreb to Croatia to Slovenia.
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These are difficult territories;
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the people there were strong enemies to us just like we were strong
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enemies to the fascists when I was a partisan later fighting them and the Germans.
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That's all, it was a long time and we were freezing and starving.
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We did have food, but when you're 20 or 22, you're always hungry.
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There was no fruit, the land was a desert just like here,
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there was nothing to eat,
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