With the editorial published yesterday, this paper has tried to animate a discussion on a delicate but simple point: a "national holiday" should represent a unifying moment, not a division.
The reactions were numerous and "strong". Wanting to ignore the ideological or spontaneous contents of the numerous criticisms or the numerous shares, the thesis has been confirmed: the 25 April is a disaggregating date.
I do not want here to continue the dialectical confrontation opened yesterday but to reassure those who have accused Online Defense of "nazifascism". This newspaper can not be defined as such for several reasons. The first is that Nazism and fascism are distinct doctrines and the former is not a "harder" form than the latter, it represents its antithesis. Those who did not catch the "slight nuance" at the time brought the country to ruin ...
The reason for the malicious confusion of the terms was clearly explained by the last Italian ambassador in East Germany (DDR) to a conference: for the "socialist" countries it was an embarrassment to define the regime won "national-socialist", it was so generally used the term "fascist" to overcome the impasse.
With this I do not want to defend the twentieth century, but confusing certain terms is like putting on the same level the barbaric culture (based on force and prevarication) with the Roman one (model of law and integration). In addition, who could ever forgive those who enjoyed the day as a lion leaving the Italians 100 years as a sheep ?!
However, I expect very little harmony. In no one in the outgoing regime still in power. This is because I have (direct) experience of a conflict in which for 7 years have been - and are still today (!) - defined "democratic rebels" of the barbaric assassins and "bloody regime" a government, corrupt and clumsy, but where social, cultural and religious integration could be a model. A lie, yes, national!
The thought now goes to tomorrow. What our real president will do, that of the "Republic".
Will he ignore the divisions or try to get out of the usual obvious ritual?
As written yesterday would serve a date able to aggregate ...
Perhaps a small gesture could succeed. If the president, before going to the Altare della Patria and then to the Fosse Ardeatine, without clamor and rhetoric, went to Via Rasella to lay down a flower: not in memory of the South Tyroleans killed in the attack of the '44, for charity, in memory of Piero Zuccheretti, the innocent child torn by the explosion.
I believe that, in a country that is victim of the still daily divisions of politics, it could rebound all of us in front of the drama of a forgotten mourning.
(photo: Quirinale)
