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We did this for our GAPs, the SAPs did the same for their SAPs.
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Others came down from the mountains, and they also had places to liberate.
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We stayed up all night to prepare this,
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this advance strategy to throw the Germans, the fascists, all the soldiers and armed men out of Modena.
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I had to go to Paganine
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to transmit the orders, since it was always dispatch-riders who had to do this.
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There was no other way. We had no telephone.
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So I left with my orders.
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I had to go because we could already hear bombing in Bologna
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and then some bombed around us too.
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In Modena this didn’t happen because we told them,
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but they bombed Reggio, and Cavriago, where the German headquarters were.
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I left and headed down Morane street to Paganine,
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a village towards Bologna, towards the mountains.
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When I got there, I went on for a kilometre and I found the Germans already retreating.
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Cows, carts, horses, bicycles, they had a bit of everything.
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They stopped me. I couldn’t move on.
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“I have to go”, I told them. We always found an excuse, an ill brother or telling them we lived there and had to get back.
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But there was no way. They wanted to take my bicycle and forced me to go back.
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I had to wait for the agreed time to meet with the other comrades,
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