European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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we had a cow or two for milk, in order to go to the dairy to get some cheese, butter, etc.
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In the winter, since you couldn’t do much in the fields,
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my father would help us more with these things, while in the summer he was always working.
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Making a red flag
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We went to Guardazone, which is a mountain just near San Polo.
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We had lunch there, some sandwiches.
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As it was close to the first of May we decided
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to take a piece of paper and made a flag with the lipsticks we had.
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Then we found a stick, a piece of wood, and we secured this flag to it
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and there we went, climbed on a pine tree and tied it there…
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Then we left, we went away,
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since there were people who were informers and would go see if they found us there.
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You could sign up even if you weren’t 18 yet.
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From that moment they taught us songs like “Bandiera Rossa” and other things, other songs
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that people used to sing even after the war.
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Clandestine communist party
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The older comrades saw that I was interested in this situation, eager to learn and know what to do,
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and started handing me some books.
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I believe the one we remembered the most was Maxim Gorkij’s “The mother”.
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I was 15or 16 years old when they started talking to us openly about the Communist Party,
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