European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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not only political prisoners, but a bit of everything, including spies.
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For three years I drove a tractor.
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We arrived at the offices of the colony, where we were divided in three sheds,
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since we were seventeen or eighteen.
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As I walked in, others were already inside.
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I started to explain to them how we were lucky that the number of socialist countries was growing,
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thanks to the Soviet Union – they had just occupied Sweden, Norway and Lithuania at that time – and how great the Russians were.
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Come morning, a tiny man called me over and asked me where I was from.
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I told him I was from Reggio Emilia, so he told me:
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“Are you really sure about the things you were saying last night?”.
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I thought he was crazy.
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He was a professor from Milan, whose name was Lonato. We were in great terms after that.
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With us, there were also prisoners from Parma.
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I’m not saying I liked it there, because it was always confinement.
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However I was younger than the others, and I understood that this was an advantage.
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I was with a man called Bonini, from Villa Seta, who was around forty-five years old
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and had a wife at home, renting a small farm and taking care of the kids:
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that was a lot harder, but he always managed to take care of things rather easily.
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Then I finally came home from confinement.
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I had been given some documents which I was supposed to bring to the police.
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