A tuneless litany, slow and boring. In recent years, it has become the only glue that has held the left bank of Italian politics together. The danger of the return of fascism, the myth of resistance and guerrillas are a weekly leitmotif plucked up by the local left. Yesterday it was the words of the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, that triggered the fuse. «Via Rasella was a less than noble page of the resistance, the dead were a musical band of semi-retired and non-Nazi SS members, knowing full well the risk of retaliation against Roman citizens, anti-fascists and others». Open the sky. Even some wanted to comment, criticize and ask for the resignation of the exponent of the Italian Brothers. It is not, of course, an isolated case. The month of February had barely begun when Ignazio La Russa was involved in another tricky controversy. The governor of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, attacked him for no apparent reason. “There is in the ranks of the Brothers of Italy an exponent of authority who boasts that he still has a portrait and a statue of Mussolini in his house”. A fact, incidentally, known and strange for years, if not decades. In this case, the President of the Senate, during an initiative in memory of Pinuccio Tatarella, one of the architects of the transition from the Italian Social Movement to the National Alliance, responded to the former mayor of Salerno. “Excuse me if I’m talking about myself. I’m always painted as the one with the Duce’s busts, it’s true I do, my father left me, I don’t understand why I should throw it away. I’ll never throw it away, just as I don’t I would throw away the bust of Mao Zedong if I was left with his artwork. I apologize again for this personal parenthesis, which I absolutely wanted to express.”
An awareness that Carlo Calenda didn’t like. “Because he collaborated in the extermination of the Jews, because he had his opponents killed and the workers beaten. And you are not Chinese. You are Italian. Offender’s homeland. And President of the Senate. And if you don’t understand why you have to throw away Mussolini’s bust, you don’t deserve to be.” It is not necessary to go back far in time to recall the media lynching to which the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, was subjected. from Fosse Ardeatine “were killed because they were Italian”. , the Jews – said Gianfranco Pagliarulo – In addition, the list of some of those who, as stated by Giorgia Meloni, were barbarously murdered by the Nazi occupation troops, was drawn up with the complicity of the questore Pietro Caruso, the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Salò , Guido Buffarini Guidi, the war criminal Pietro Koch, all fascists».
And how can we forget the demonstration in defense of the director of a secondary school in Florence, who had written a circular, a few days after the feud between young militants of Student Action and the Left Collectives. Fostering the fascist danger and putting dangerous dictatorships on an equal footing with «those who extol the value of borders, those who honor the blood of their ancestors in opposition to the different, continuing to erect walls, must be left alone, called by the its name, fought with ideas and with culture. Without deluding ourselves that this disgusting regurgitation will pass by itself. Many Italians also thought that way a hundred years ago, but it was not like that ». Finally, it is impossible to forget Enrico Letta. Who asked Italians, in the last election campaign in September, to vote to “control the fascist danger”. A request that our fellow citizens promptly returned to sender.
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
