Great participation in Moscow for the celebration of November 4, Italian Unity Day and Armed Forces Day.
On the occasion of the celebration, a large-scale celebratory event was held at the Italian embassy. Palazzo Berg - seat of the Italian embassy since 1924 - hosted 270 guests including representatives of the military offices at the various diplomatic representations present in Moscow, representatives of the institutions, businesses and the Italian community, representatives of information and strategic analysis centers, as well as former officers and staff of Russian institutions.
After being greeted and greeted by the Italian ambassador Cesare Maria Ragaglini, the guests gathered in the beautiful frescoed rooms of the building for the usual buffet, rigorously composed of top quality Italian products.
The event, linear and sober, was a great success and showed a climate of great conviviality and harmony: the various diplomatic representatives of different nationalities met and greeted each other as old acquaintances and gathered together to pay tribute to an important day for our nation.
However it is appropriate to take a step back and remember why the November 4 is such an important date for Italians.
The 3 November of the 1918 was signed theArmistice of Villa Giusti which marked the end of the First World War and the victory of Italy. Concretely, the armistice determined the completion of the Italian national unity since the territories of Trento and Trieste were again transferred to Italy: consequently the 4 November 1918 Italy returned to being a united state.
In the 1919 to commemorate the Italian victory during the First World War, the Italian government decided to establish the 4th November a celebratory day that took the name of Italian Unity Day and Armed Forces Day. On this same date in the 1921 the The Unknown Soldier he was buried at the Altare della Patria in Rome and, since that day, every 4th November, the highest offices of the state pay him homage on behalf of all the Italians who died during the First World War.
By pure coincidence, the Italian holiday coincides with a Russian holiday and, to be precise, with the National Unity Day. Established in the 2005, this day brings to mind the expulsion of Lithuanians and Poles from Moscow in the 1612. This celebration replaced the October 7 November Revolution Day in the calendar of civil holidays and reflects the new idea of unity of the country born with the end of the Soviet period.
So celebrating this day abroad, and especially in Moscow, takes on great value. Indeed, there is not only the possibility of paying homage to the Italian State and the Armed Forces representing Italy abroad, but also to share a festive atmosphere of the Russian people.
