European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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They can’t understand how anyone coming from a Catholic family
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that goes to Mass, that has baptized its children, whose father sings in church,
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whose family that has rebuilt the church of Santa Maria after the Germans had set it on fire,
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can join the Communist Party. There was this message of liberation.
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Otherwise who would have done it, nobody paid us for this…
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I worked for the Communist Party for 13 years and 6 months without social insurance contributions and without health insurance.
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And that’s fortunately because I was already rich, I had food on my table at home.
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Other comrades who were living the same life I was living had their wives working as maids, or on the rice-field, with children at home.
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That’s how we set up the Communist Party, not with the treasure of Dongo.
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Some Germans do not flee and marry in the villages
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I didn’t even manage to come to Reggio for the liberation
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because some German soldiers had hidden and we didn’t know what they were going to do.
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We found out the following day:
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they had stayed there because they were tired of the war,
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because they didn’t want to follow their troops, maybe they were afraid of drowning in the Po river…
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Two of them had girlfriends they got married with over here, their kids are here now.
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Battle defending the Ligonchio power plant
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So the Germans decided to blow up the power plants in Ligonchio
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and headed up the mountains.
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The central headquarters, who were afraid we would not endure one last attack by the Germans,
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