European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The older comrades saw that I was interested in this situation, eager to learn and know what to do,
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and started handing me some books.
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I believe the one we remembered the most was Maxim Gorkij’s “The mother”.
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I was 15or 16 years old when they started talking to us openly about the Communist Party,
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which was the opposite of fascism,
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and about having to get involved in the clandestine struggle, organizing people against this dictatorship,
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since it really was a dictatorship then.
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By the time I left San Bartolomeo I was already part of the clandestine Communist Party.
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I had a cousin who had been incarcerated, his name was Nello Strozzi.
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And then also my boyfriend’s brother.
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Me and my boyfriend had started dating when I was eighteen,
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he was of the Viani family, his name was Alfeo.
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Introduction, childhood during fascism
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My name is Lidia Valeriani.
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I was born on the 23rd of January 1923
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in Montecavolo di Quattro Castella,
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in a small hamlet called Scampate.
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Awful fascist times.
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My father was a victim of political persecution.
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I had two brothers older than I,
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