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I participated at meetings for the legislative elections

in which Waldeck Rocher won against the Comte De Fels.

My father also took me to my first demonstration.

It was called the “Wall of the Confederates” in memory of the Paris Commune (1870/71).

I remember meeting my teacher, a young socialist, at the demonstration.

I belonged to the Communist Youth Movement.

I was responsible for the distribution of the newspaper “l’Avantgarde” until the war,

until the banning of the Communist Party.

The Communist Party was banned after the non-aggression treaty between Hitler and Stalin (1939).

The treaty was seen very negatively by the population

and became subject of propaganda from the French government.

When distributing leaflets I was sometimes insulted by the workers.

Introduction: family, school, work

My name is Pascucci.

I am of Italian origin.

I was born in Italy, in the region of Pesaro, at Sant’Angelo in Lizzola to be exact.

That is a beautiful little hill.

I once had the opportunity to see my birthplace again.

My parents came to France, thanks to an agreement concerning manual laborers

that had been signed between France and Italy after World War I.