European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Then we went to provide the paper, the ink and the printer.

We printed almost 1000 by hand.

I slept in the night doing this, turning the handle.

We had a lot of readers because there were some really nice stories told in it.

Yesterday I met a partisan, a vice-commander, and he told me:

"You wrote some really nice stuff".

Well, we tried to keep the morale up, for example.

Beginning of the partisan activity

When I was at home I didn't feel safe because

the fascists were spies, great spies.

After the end of the war I read what they'd written about me and my brother Portos,

a commander of a unit, and my brother Tonino, you wouldn't imagine what they wrote.

An idiot that I knew, but I've never reproached him, for the sake of our country.

It was easy to become anti-fascist because the fascists were really stupid guys.

I got so angry with those fascists!

I see the Duce today I feel like vomiting, I can't feel sorry for them!

And I went to the mountains

and crossed the fields of a man called Fontana, a fascist but an honest one.