European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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so we went to Montecchio,
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at Montecchio we owned a nice little house.
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It had already started ...
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I was friends with the family of Jones Bertolini
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who was a really passionate partisan, he got the silver medal,
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that was when I became a communist. His mother was an anti-fascist,
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the father had to emigrate to France,
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they were really poor. I'd seen him only once
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when he came back to Montecchio to meet his parents.
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I remember I saw him killing a chicken with a sling
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and then taking it home to eat it.
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A really terrible poverty. That was when I ...
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I didn't fancy that lady, she was good and kind
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but she swore so much against that stubborn (Mussolini) who sent people to die ...
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I wished she was a little bit more gentle but she was right in many ways.
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After the war
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That day, I think it was May 3rd, we made the parade and then we went to the square.
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We had to turn over our weapons but, I tell you the truth, this was kind of hard for me.
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It was a nice Stan, shiny and clean, I had taken care for it like a brother
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because by doing so, you were said everything, no need to talk much.
 
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