European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

the "Volunteer of Freedom", and I became the chief editor.

The director was "Eros" Didimo Ferrari.

We were issuing the newspaper because a guy called Cipro,

the future commander of the Battalion of the Single Command,

and me vice commander,

he was somehow able to manage it, I don't know how.

Anyway, whenever he'd find them (paper) he'd bring them to the command post, to the journal.

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.