European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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That was also part of our struggle…
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Mines against the cavalry
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The Germans could not use armoured vehicles and tanks around the mountains,
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as we had blown up all the bridges.
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So they didn’t succeed when they repeatedly tried to surround the mountains.
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Then they set up the Mongolian cavalry unit.
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It was made up of soldiers who came from the south of the Soviet Union.
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We heard they were moving uphill from the lowlands trying to surround the area.
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We knew they would come by the road that begins by the church of Rivalta.
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We mined the whole road. You probably know how antitank mines work. We saw horses blown up in the air…
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Fossoli: Russian prisoners liberated
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The Germans had taken 250-300 Russian prisoners to a camp in Fossoli.
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Together with the GAPs and the partisans from Modena
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we surrounded the camp and took all the Russians to the mountains.
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The central headquarters then took care of the rest, talking with the three Russian officers.
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One of them later became a partisan choosing Modena as his battle name.
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Afterwards we had a major problem in the lowlands around Reggio.
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One of the Russians we had taken to the mountains escaped and joined the Black Brigades.
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He knew the lowlands, since he had spent some time working in some houses there.
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He began to point out the houses to the Black Brigades, who set them on fire.
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