Ci sono poi passato, per l'Istria, la prima volta "solo" nel 1980. Tornavamo from vacation, a couple of weeks in Greece with the family, driven by a legendary Opel Rekord 2000D (petrol) with which we circumnavigated the Adriatic (Ancona-Patras ferry and then after their stay in the Hellenic peninsula, on the whole d ' one breath, for the present Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia, and then return via Trieste).
then called Yugoslavia and Tito name - to me that I was 10 years old - said little. If you are not talking about it all because he was dead a few days. No one imagined that 10 years from there - perhaps for this reason - in Yugoslavia would be all hell broke loose.
strange that the parable of the dictator Slavic. First champion of the communist dream, hero of the liberation of Yugoslavia, true legend for the Italian Communists border (the historic crossing of the "Monfalconesi, Monfalcone workers who chose to live on earth to see first-Yugoslav hand the genuine socialist society - not just if they repent quickly). Then, after an insulting Stalin, Tito suddenly in Italy was labeled "fascist" or best "pro-American" just because, probably, his Yugoslav communist society would not be subject tout court in Moscow.
One thing is certain. I reconstructed the story of this character, and the facts of that time, not so much on school books (with lyrics such as "Camera- Fabietti " the war is virtually crippled), but much more recently in a couple of readings apptrofondite dedicated to the Second World War: the enlightening "The exodus " by Arrigo Petacco - which recounts aseptic detailed but the ethnic cleansing committed by Tito after the war - and distressing " Prisoners of Silence" by Giampaolo Pansa , which tells the story of Andrea Scano, convinced communist to the marrow, so to finish Tito in the clutches of the very year of the historical rupture that saw Tito-Stalin thrown thousands of "Comintern" (Communist faithful to the USSR and later enemy of Tito) in the concentration camps of Yugoslavia.
Una premessa per parlare di oggi, 10 febbraio, della Giornata del Ricordo , dedicata alla memoria per le vittime delle foibe e dell'esodo istriano-giuliano-dalmata. Una vera "pulizia etnica" iniziata e portata a termine dalle truppe di Tito e, quel che è peggio, tenuta nascosta per decenni. Nei libri di storia, o perfino nelle enciclopedie - dove il termine "foiba" era tradotto: "varietà di doline frequenti in Istria" (come se la parola Auschwitz venisse tradotta con "amena località polacca") - per non parlare della politica italiana e del mondo dell'informazione.
Oggi leggiamo nei quotidiani quello che si dicono al telefono un capo di governo e una prostituta, per decenni non abbiamo knew - or rather not have told us - that at least 12,000 people (Italians, fascist or otherwise) were killed and thrown into "a variety of sinkholes often Istria. If the first is a great tragedy, the second is an immense shame. Gutta
cavat lapidem, said the Latins. And maybe also applies to the sinkholes, which had to wait almost 60 years to be "translated" in their true historical significance. And the victims who ended up in - only because they could not fit into a design geo-political-ethnic - have had at least one posthumous recognition in terms of memory. Many more were also "victims" of the exodus, the Dalmatian, Istrian and Rijeka, forced to wander for years throughout Italy looking for a "new country" (last year I interviewed a lady of Assisi, whose testimony was touching) often look like "gypsies" (meaning "homeless"), often condemned to forget their roots and their membership.
Well, perhaps the most bitter of this chapter of history - sad and tragic as are many other events - is that this country should have shown solidarity and hospitality, did the worst thing you can do: ignore the existence of these exiles. A flap simply disgraceful.
Francamente non lo ricordavo. M'è tornato in mente ripescando un pezzo che scrissi su " Gubbio oggi " in quel febbraio di 6 anni fa (lo pubblico in fondo a questo post, per chi ha curiosità di rileggerlo).
Per fortuna c'è chi è capace di dare esempi diversi e di ben altra dimensione: andando anche contro quello che è la propria storia politica inevitabilmente riporta alla mente. Non tanto e non solo oggi la presidente della Regione, Marini and the President of the Province, Guasticchi (emblematic of the latter's words: " is not a question of numbers, the dead can not be statistics).
I mean the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano . That he was a leader of that PCI with Togliatti, after the war, deliberately kept in silence what had happened - and even the drama of the same Italian Communists, as Scano, Tito ended up in concentration camps.
will be words, but at least after 60 years, are the wise words: words like stones.
" should ban any lingering conspiracy of silence, removing any form of diplomatic or inexcusable neglect than in such tragic experiences. In each country has a duty to cultivate their memories do not erase the traces of the sufferings of their people .
Giorgio Napolitano, Italian President
former lawmaker PCI
From "Gubbio today" - Editorial - February 2005
Let's face it. Outside of any idea or political inclination. The rejection of the Municipal Council of Gubbio on the proposal to honor the memory of the martyrs and victims of the ravines' exodus from Istria and Dalmatia - beyond the due moment of silence - has the flavor of opportunity lost.
promote discussion and further development of this sad page of Italian history from the high school (also questionable to fill "gaps" in the pages of many books) or name a city street to the victims themselves - as has been done correctly for other victims of other terrible massacres of the twentieth century - would be a significant gesture and an important signal to relax and take note.
distension than ideological walls that for decades have prevented not only remember, but even to know this page of history. Acknowledgment than a parenthesis that is right about (and order) as the were others in the same period in other parts of Italy.
A lengthy discussion was the setting for the final decision which could still be resolved in a stalemate, with many abstentions, some out of the classroom and end an embarrassing silence. Elsewhere - not too far away, think of Gualdo also governs where a left-of-center - the Mayor made no secret of its willingness to dedicate a street to the martyrs of sinkholes, Italians who died as a result of ethnic cleansing operation un'efferata the hands of the so-called "communist Tito" - defined in terms cacophonous almost harmless, but terribly threatening for those who have experienced on their own experience.
Gubbio not honor or remember in any way the victims of sinkholes - unless there is reason to rethink that and give a good sense of the figure found. Still in 2005
resist fouling and mental reserves that tend to distinguish not only among the living, but even among the dead, the good guys and bad guys. With
justifications for other "emblematic" of the climate that still permeates certain opinions (little) and historical (very) political: I explained the no or abstention with references to Bush, Sharon, the intifada and the inevitable Berlusconi ( and we thought that the border of Friuli and Istria that the story had been consumed in ... '45). Remember
tragically killed thousands of people do not believe it means to rewrite history, nor those who perform in this story certainly has chosen to fight for the wrong cause.
But remember those victims should be a human and institutional duty, regardless of color or ideology that inspired those victims who is guilty.
Communism has different roots from fascism and Nazism, which we are not here to rebuild, but it cost the same way, all over the world, millions of lives. Deny it or pretend nothing happened, even at a distance of 60 years, even in a remote village as Gubbio, is to remove those dead again. Perhaps even too uncomfortable.
GMA
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