European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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With this song that went “The moon, the stars talked about love”.
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It was hot then, they used to sing it on the radio.
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“Oh what a pretty flower, oh what a pretty flower”.
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That was the last time we were singing together, because he died
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soon after in Ligonchio, near the house where I met my wife.
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What did we do?
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Cleaned the guns, some helped fixing the meals, another one went to get water.
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Then at night we also talked, about the few things we knew.
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We had political commissioners we listened to, but after the war I realized that they didn’t know much as well.
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I have to say that their knowledge, their political culture was quite limited.
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I couldn’t live my life anywhere else, I would really have a hard time.
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That’s how I felt during the war too.
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We even slept in beech-trees, I could say it was a beautiful experience.
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Looking at today’s consumerism, I also understood that men need only a few things to live.
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Today you have stores full of stuff, you don’t know where to put things at home;
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at the time if you had a bottle of water, some bread and cheese,
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you were just as strong as today, maybe even more since you didn’t need to go see the doctor after you ate too much.
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I learned so much from the resistance, and from the war too.
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Real antifascism developed even after the war.
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Along with awareness, as you understood that fascism wasn’t only people with guns.
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