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the son of Benito Foscato, the worst fascist of Zanichelli Street,

where we have grown up as kids.

So we always had to be very careful about what we were saying

because he would go and tell his father who would call us to the headquarters.

It was a dog's life, you had to take care whom you were dealing with.

One day our friend came home dressed as a fascist.

At first he seemed on our side.

We could not express our ideas because we knew

that he would always agree with us but in the end

he always would go to tell his father what we'd said and done.

In fact, in the end it turned out that he'd enrolled as a volunteer for the Black Brigade:

to us it was a shock because we could have been put to jail.

You could not trust a person like that.

Liberation

I told you I was in Cervarezza with my battalion

of 100-120 partisans, and then we went down the Sparavalle

and got to Castelnovo Monti and there some more people joined us.

All on foot. It was a beautiful moment, we were happy and quiet.

Then we reached Reggio and were so proud.

Sometimes there still was some idiots shooting at us,