European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I was still Lidia, but let’s say I had a very positive experience
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and I also felt proud for doing this.
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A bus was coming down from San Polo and we stopped it, telling them there was a strike, that they had to go back.
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Some soldiers were on the bus, we got them off and disarmed them:
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they gave us their weapons without resisting and didn’t get back on the bus.
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They began to walk, maybe they were heading home.
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This didn’t cause any trouble.
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Then a fascist who had been evacuated to Montecavolo came out of a house
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(we were in the main road, by the square, with the strike, our posters, etc.)
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He started shooting with a machine-gun, into the air at first.
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I think he also had a gun.
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Many of us ran after him. We finally caught him and disarmed him.
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We didn’t really hurt him, let’s say that nobody did anything that would have got him killed.
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Somebody might have kicked him, but everything was ok.
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The strike was over, we kept the weapons and sent them to the mountains and broke up the strike.
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In noon, in Montecavolo there was already a curfew, people couldn’t go out of their homes.
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We were already at home,
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since we were on our bicycles, and there were about 3 or 4 km between Montecavolo and Scampate.
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Beginning of the clandestine work
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From the 8th of September I began to know where the comrades were,
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