«It’s Liberation Day, and for me a representative of the institutions, is the celebration of all celebrations. Everyone’s party. If it hadn’t been for the partisans to free us from the fascist regime and the Nazi occupation, we wouldn’t all have June 2nd, May 1st or even the Constitution.” Thus Loredana Capone, president of the regional council on April 25th celebration.
«It’s unfortunate – he continues – that an important part of politics is missing from this square in Lecce today. Evidently the one who has difficulty defining herself as anti-fascist. But many girls and boys are also missing.”
«For this reason it is necessary – he adds – that contemporary history should be studied in schools, because the new generations must know what happened in the 20th century. The horrors, the abuses. That black page in history in which all freedoms were taken away, with the dissolution of trade unions and parties, press censorship, bans on women, the arrest and killing of every dissident. To arrive at the terrible racial laws.”
«We all have to deal with history. And the new generations – she concludes – have the right and the duty to know what happened, so that they can freely decide which side they are on. So that they know what regime was behind the Roman salute and not be enchanted by macabre nostalgia. Especially at this moment when we talk about Europe, we need to form a common front against authoritarian regimes. We need democratic alliances to prevent our country from going in the opposite direction. This is the new resistance in Italy as in Europe.”
