European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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That’s why I set up the cooperative although everybody was against the idea. Consorzio, Federcoop laughed at me:
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“What are you setting up the cooperative for? You wouldn’t be able to lead a cooperative even if the times were different”.
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I replied: “You don’t understand. I took part in the Resistance and I learned a lot from it.
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We did things you wouldn’t even imagine”.
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It was hard to forgive…
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We were all between 15 and 28 years old.
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A boy called Francia wasn’t even fifteen.
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Another one from Guastalla, who’s still alive, was seventeen,
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the others were around 20-21 years old.
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There was one of us who was 28, who was married and father of a one-year old child.
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They arrested his wife, then they tortured her and raped her.
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From this story one can understand what happened after the war.
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Some felt they had to get vengeance for all the brutality of the fascists and the Germans.
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I’ve never agreed with retaliation: once the war is over everything is over.
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On the other hand, we have to put ourselves in the shoes of those partisans, or even civilians, who had to bear these episodes:
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It’s hard to caress your torturer’s cheek when you meet him after the war.
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We must understand what happened during the war.
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These brutalities affected us too.
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These slaughters and the violence were something terrible for us.
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Although I was a member of Azione Cattolica,
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