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Looking at today’s consumerism, I also understood that men need only a few things to live.

Today you have stores full of stuff, you don’t know where to put things at home;

at the time if you had a bottle of water, some bread and cheese,

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.

I learned so much from the resistance, and from the war too.

Real antifascism developed even after the war.

Along with awareness, as you understood that fascism wasn’t only people with guns.

We found ourselves with the parties of Movimento Sociale and L’Uomo Qualunque in 1945-46 reorganizing fascist principles.

That’s when this feeling arises... Why am I still here at ANPI in Reggio?

I’m here to resist.

We must create a social fabric that won’t allow fascism again.

That’s why I say that antifascism matured after the war more than during the war itself.

Why Giacomo entered the comunist party

Now we might laugh about this, but when you talked about Russia then,

about a country that carried out a revolution,

where there was a king who was killed, where they were selling the land along with the farmers…

It was an inspirational message for the youth.

Then we all know how the story went,

but the communist principles, just like the Christian principles, are two sets of values that just can’t fail.

Mankind must head in this direction in order to survive, otherwise we will end up in the dust.