Milan, 10 August. (LaPresse) – This morning, in Piazzale Loreto, in the presence of Gaia Romani, Councillor for Civic and General Services of the Municipality of Milan, a ceremony was held to commemorate the 15 partisans taken from San Vittore prison and shot at dawn on 10 August 1944 by a platoon of the Muti Legion, on the orders of the Nazis. ‘It is also thanks to their sacrifice that Italy is now a free and anti-fascist country,’ said Councillor Romani, speaking at the commemoration. "A country where we can speak, vote and choose which side we are on. It is a choice that each of us must make every day. Because, unfortunately, fascism and dictatorship are not just a tragic and distant chapter in history: resurgent fascism rears its head whenever intolerance takes shape and voice, when those who are different are pointed out as guilty, when attempts are made to rewrite or deny history, when those who name names, those who recognise the seeds of evil, are silenced. Being anti-fascist today means interpreting and safeguarding the deepest and most significant values of our Constitution: freedom, equality, justice, solidarity and the rejection of war. And speaking of wars, the massacre of the 15 martyrs today forces us to wake up: it forces us not to be blind or deaf, to oppose, to raise our voices against this culture of barbarism and death, which tramples on every right, which kills men, women and children, even classified as collateral damage. Every time we abandon the weapons of dialogue and diplomacy, Romani concluded, we show that we have learned nothing from history and trample on the value of memory.
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