European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Then there was also one of my comrades from Cella. It was four of us there.
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I could overlook the whole main street of Cerrè Sologno.
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This young man was walking towards us with a gun.
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As he realized he had 3 or 4 guns aimed at him, he raised his hands and dropped his gun.
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We told him to come forward,
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then we arrested him, questioned him for some news, and took him to the command.
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There we saw Barbolini’s sister, Sonia, who was desperate.
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Our wounded men had already been taken there.
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She told us that a German unit from Cinque Cerri was on its way.
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If that company made it over there, it would have been a slaughtering for us.
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We didn’t have enough cover to draw back since the mountain behind us had more than a meter of snow.
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If we withdrew like that they would have shot us.
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It was almost noon at that point,
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and it wasn’t clear if we were winning or losing the battle.
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Then the fascists started singing “Battaglione”.
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“Battaglioni” was a song which read:
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“Battalions of the Duce, death squads, created for life,
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in spring we’ll take part in the battle of Mussolini, brave troops…”
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They sang for 5 or 10 minutes.
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After a while our side was singing “Bandiera rossa”:
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