European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I said, "This is your fault. I didn't get an award because you didn't get me the membership."
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So she gave me a good slap and told me, "At least now you have something to cry about." Perhaps she found it difficult to respond to me in the moment
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since parents were really careful about talking to us kids.
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because children could easily let something slip, even with others... and you couldn't... i mean...
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if you said something bad about the fascists, there was the risk and the danger, if you expressed it outside of your home, that your parents would be punished.
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And because of that, even when they spoke in the stables, they would say, “Ragasol, vueter guai s’adgiv quèl”, which meant "children, be careful, you shouldn't talk about anything that you hear at home".
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Through this, ever since we were children, we knew that we had to keep quiet, that it was dangerous for us and our family to do certain things.
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Then I came to Reggio. Our family moved to Reggio since the boys were studying...
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That is, my brother had gone to high school at a boarding school in Parma and they were starting...
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There was a need to move closer to the city.
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They bought a house on Dalmazia Street
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and my life changed completely.
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coming from the traditions, the farm life, which was based on conservatism, the traditionalism, having to be careful about what you said...
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and the women were constantly being treated like nobodies.
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In fact, I used to be told even in my own home, "Shut up. You are a woman."
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And my mother, poor woman, thought this was right.
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Here, I instead started meeting women that went to work
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and Dalmazia Street was a street where the working-class elites of the city lived.
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There were factory technicians, gas technicians, water technicians.
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They were a very bright, mature and well-prepared group of working class people.
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