European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I remembered these men saying
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“It’s always the sons of the poor who go to war, not those of the rich”.
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Beginning of the War on Africa
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The preparation for the war in Africa was gaining momentum.
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Everything had to be geared to war.
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Mussolini used to say that not one crumb of bread was to be wasted,
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as it could serve a soldier in Africa.
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I was hearing different stories from my brothers and their friends. I looked at my brothers a lot since my father had died.
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I remember what Strozzi said.
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He was very young, a neighbour of ours who later became the vice-president of the Riunite dairy.
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Referring to what Mussolini had said about farmers,
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that they needed to go to war, in order to create an empire and conquer new land to work,
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I remember Strozzi saying: “War has never brought anything good for the poor”.
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Around the same time, the landlord invited all the farmers to go over to her house
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and listen to Mussolini’s speech about the beginning of the war in Africa.
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My mother and I went in front of the landlord’s living room.
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We couldn’t go inside the house in order not to dirty it.
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My mother had been told to call the farmers to listen to the Duce.
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I was very happy. I was going to do something different and listen to a new thing.
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When I heard the radio I was dazed since I couldn’t understand where that deep voice was coming from.
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