European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

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.

He understood that I wanted to enlist.

We went to the river Enza where he had an appointment with many other guys.

My task was to bring a bag of 5 kilos of salt from Montecchio to Canossa.

I fixed it well and got on my way, but as I arrived in Canossa they stopped us.

"STOP! PASSWORD!" The password was "Torino. Avanti Toro!"

So we went to a something of a barn to sleep

and eat because we still had not had breakfast.