European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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We moved there in 1938; I had just turned 17. We had a restaurant with a bar.
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Although I was quite young, I was very curious. I had always been like that.
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The older men liked me. They started to explain to me what I had known only in general terms.
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What fascism really was, the real reasons behind its existence,
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for it was only violence and ignorance to me at that time.
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These men were generally Communists and Socialists.
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I began to understand and to see things from a different point of view that attracted me more.
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I had made friends with the young men who came to our bar.
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When they left for war I became their communication point.
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They were writing from Africa,
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