European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Therefore, I was an antifascist since I was a kid,
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and I remember neatly the day when, in 1923 –
I think I was five then – -
the consumer cooperative of Gavasseto was burned down.
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My mother and father had always been working to set up the cooperative.
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Then, that night, I remember that people came over to wake them up,
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shouting that “the coop was on fire”: that’s a moment I will never forget.
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From that day, I’ve never been a member of the Fascist Party.
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There were also other reasons which kept me from taking up membership,-.
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such as the fact that the Fascist youth had to take part in military activities and all kinds of classes every Saturday,
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an environment which I did not want to be involved in.
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I went to live in Villa Rivalta and I wasn’t even seventeen when I started working at Officine Reggiane.
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Even there, every day was a struggle.
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It was unpleasant to have to show a Fascist membership card for everything,
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and that’s another aspect which had me disagreeing with the fascists.
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Anything you did, or whatever you might have needed,
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you were always expected to have your Fascist membership card with you.
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I did not believe in this and didn’t want the card,
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so I was forced to use alternative methods, those I had learned from my family,
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my parents and my two older sisters.
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During the first three months of school we did writing exercises and we learned to count up to fifty.
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