European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I realized what the differences between the rich and the poor were.
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I remembered these men saying
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“It’s always the sons of the poor who go to war, not those of the rich”.
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Beginning of the War on Africa
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The preparation for the war in Africa was gaining momentum.
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Everything had to be geared to war.
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Mussolini used to say that not one crumb of bread was to be wasted,
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as it could serve a soldier in Africa.
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I was hearing different stories from my brothers and their friends. I looked at my brothers a lot since my father had died.
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I remember what Strozzi said.
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He was very young, a neighbour of ours who later became the vice-president of the Riunite dairy.
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Referring to what Mussolini had said about farmers,
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that they needed to go to war, in order to create an empire and conquer new land to work,
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I remember Strozzi saying: “War has never brought anything good for the poor”.
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Around the same time, the landlord invited all the farmers to go over at her house
Around the same time, the landlord invited all the farmers to go over at her house
Around the same time, the landlord invited all the farmers to go over to her house -
and listen to Mussolini’s speech about the beginning of the war in Africa.
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My mother and I went in front of the landlord’s living room.
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We couldn’t go inside the house in order not to dirty it.
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My mother had been told to call the farmers to listen to the Duce.
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I was very happy. I was going to do something different and listen to a new thing.
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