European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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When I led my battalion it was eight to ten of us
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and everyone had to do surveillance, in groups of two. I did my shift alone,
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three hours there in a hiding place, in the shadows, with eyes wide open.
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If you don't keep your eyes open during the surveillance shift you're in big trouble.
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The colour of the unit
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Our unit was red, all communist, because we had some true communists.
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The 144th Brigade was called “Antonio Gramsci”
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and the commander was "Sintoni", one that had fought in the Spanish civil war, Pattacini,
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the commissioner was Antonio Raisi, who'd fought in Spain, too, so all people that were political experts.
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That was our line.
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A priest, Don Guido Riva, once complained to us:
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"You never come to mass! What’s wrong, are you afraid of the Church?"
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I mean, we had no political experience but we thought that
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by behaving like this we would be tougher enemies, and in fact we did grow up.
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So our Brigade truly was the red one,
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so that they hardly ever dropped stuff to us, or if they did,
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they gave us useless stuff like shoes size 44 - you could place your two feet in one shoe!
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Even our commanders were saying that we were somehow different.
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In fact, I wasn't into politics that much,
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but to be against the fascists and the Germans
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