(AGENPARL) – Rome, 12 June 2024
(AGENPARL) – Wed 12 June 2024 INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION
AND OPEN GOVERNMENT
Press office
12/6/2024
“LIBERATION DAY” CELEBRATED
CITY OF TRIESTE FROM THE YUGOSLAVIAN OCCUPATION” IN
ANNIVERSARY OF JUNE 12TH
This morning (12 June) the meeting was held in the City Council Hall
official celebration of the “Day of the liberation of the city of Trieste
from employment
Yugoslavian”,
organized
by the Administration
municipal
compliance with the resolution of the municipal council approved on 26 May 2020,
which established the solemn city anniversary of June 12th, to remember the day
of the end of the Yugoslav occupation of Trieste in 1945.
The President of the City Council Francesco Di Paola Panteca has
introduced the celebration by greeting the authorities and everyone’s representatives
the patriotic and military bodies and associations present in the Council Room
municipal.
“Today is an important day for Trieste because 12 June 1945 is the real one
liberation of Trieste and marks a crucial moment in our history, after the 40s
dramatic days of occupation by Tito’s communist troops. With the release of
scene of the Yugoslav troops and their police and the arrests also stopped
deportations functional to the preventive land reclamation plan implemented for
definitively make Trieste an integral part of communist Yugoslavia and the
the result of which were thousands of deaths and disappearances. Those picked up and deported do not
they returned home swallowed up in the sinkholes. The terrible Yugoslav occupation,
Precisely because of its violent character it was also cited in the motivation of the
granting of the gold medal for military valor of the city of Trieste. After days
of suffering and uncertainty, Trieste once again breathed the air of freedom. Long live Trieste, long live it
freedom”.
The deputy mayor Serena Tonel, also on behalf of the mayor Roberto Dipiazza, has
I addressed greetings to the authorities present.
“Today we celebrate the ‘Day of liberation of the city from occupation
Yugoslavia’, to remember the date on which in 1945 Tito’s partisan troops left
Trieste after 40 days of terror, finally determining the last chapter of the
horrors of the Second World War and starting to archive the bloodiest parts
of a particularly tormented 20th century for the populations of these lands” he began
the Deputy Mayor.
“At the end of the Second World War, Trieste appeared vulnerable and
attractive as an expansion area for the communist bloc, as a bridgehead for
expand its sphere of influence towards a West wounded by Nazi madness.
This expansionist threat had been well glimpsed by Winston Churchill, who in
recognize the fundamental geopolitical importance of Trieste, had given advance warning
the US ally of the need to move in advance to defend it. But in the
excitement of the final phases of the war conflict, the speed of Tito’s army had
the upper hand.”
“In April 1945, everywhere in Italy there was a yearning for peace that could be felt
come closer and materialize, and with peace you perceive the joy of newfound freedom.
Even in Trieste hope reigns. But no, Trieste will have to wait. This is in Trieste
hope was shattered on May 1st, with the arrival of the troops of the IX Corpus
of the People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, who occupy Trieste
proclaiming its annexation to Yugoslavia. A coming Yugoslavian occupation
negatively remembered for the serious events that occurred there – unjustified arrests,
killings, deportations by the political police, with thousands of deaths and
disappeared.
“Just yesterday, 11 June 2024, – continued Serena Tonel – we remembered
this City Council the sacrifice of over 200 members of the Guard
of Finance who, after having fought for the liberation of the city and its protection
of the port, were disarmed, imprisoned and deported by Tito’s popular army
to detention camps and other unknown destinations from which they never returned. To the
The Financial Police Corps yesterday voted unanimously for the city council
assign honorary citizenship, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of its foundation,
also to remember the role of the financiers in the history of Trieste, as in the
events of May 1945”.
“This is why Trieste’s self-sacrifice in resisting during those 40 days was fundamental
of ferocious occupation, giving the opportunity to the allied troops, in particular
New Zealanders, to arrive in Venezia Giulia and guarantee the freedom of the Trieste people,
negotiating the Belgrade agreements of 9 June with Yugoslavia, then ratified on the 11th
June in Duino by generals Morgan and Jovanovic, under whom the Veenzia Giulia was
divided into two parts by the Morgan line, respectively and provisionally occupied,
awaiting the peace treaties, by the Anglo-American and Yugoslav armies”.
“Once the Tito occupation ended, the arrests and deportations they had ceased
tragically marked these lands and the Italian population, continuing instead to
mark the fate of the dictatorial regime suffered by the Italian, Slovenian and Croatian Istrians. The
June 12th is a date that we don’t want to forget, keeping the memory alive
value of the city which, out of love for its country, was able to endure pain and suffering
suffering the long days of occupation, demonstrating a great sense yes
belonging to Italy. This is in fact the reason for the transfer to the City in 1956
of Trieste of the Gold Medal for Military Valor reports this evocative passage
institutional: “.. subjected to very harsh foreign occupation, it proudly suffered the
martyrdom of massacres and foibe without giving up showing his attachment
to the Homeland..”
“By will of the municipal administration, June 12th is celebrated with
Solemn ceremony since 2020, when a specific resolution was approved. A path
