Dear Director, I have read the criticisms of reader Peron regarding my speech last 8 September at Porta San Paolo in Rome (v.lettera) and your concise and exhaustive answer on the subject, an answer that I fully agree with. Far be it from me to have any intention of reopening the debate on the subject. I didn't do it then and I certainly won't do it today.
I would only like to point out that having placed Nazi totalitarianism and Soviet Communist totalitarianism, the gulags and concentration camps on the same level (which has caused me numerous criticisms, not only from Mr. Peron) has now been done by the Resolution of the European Parliament of 19 September 2019 on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe, which textually refers to paragraph 3. "... the Nazi and Communist regimes committed mass murders, genocides and deportations, causing, in the course of the 20th century, loss of life and freedom of an unprecedented scale in the history of humanity, and recalls the horrendous crime of the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi regime; condemns in the strongest terms the acts of aggression, the crimes against humanity and the massive violations of human rights perpetrated by the Nazi regime, the communist regime and other totalitarian regimes "
I think that the recognition and acceptance of historical reality are perhaps the first step in trying to leave behind us, as the Italian people, divisions and factions of 75 years ago, which we should have overcome for a long time.
Antonio Li Gobbi
