Memory Day, Mattarella’s condemnation: “About the concealment of history”

On Memory Day that celebrates the victims of the forest massacres and Giuliano Dalmácia Exodus on February 10 of each year, the severity condemnation of the head of state arrives against poisons that are still spilled in a long -forgotten drama. «In the areas of the eastern border, after fascist oppression, responsible for a difficult secretly segregationist politics in relation to Slavic populations and the barbaric Nazi occupation, the communist dictatorship of Tito was established, inaugurating a cruel station of violence against resident Italians in which These areas. From that season, marked by a long theory of murders, arrests, torture, looting, disappearance, the holes remain the darkest symbol. And no squalid provocation can reduce memory and strong condemnation, “said President Sergio Mattarella, in his intervention at Quirinale at the time of Memory Day, established in 2004 to remember the massacres of the wells and the Giuliano Dalmatian Exodus and Exodus, with reference to recent vandalism at the fois in Basovizza.

“Soon, under threat and after a second wave of violence, our fellow citizens of istry, Dalmácia, FIUMA, were confronted with the dramatic dilemma: assimilating, disconnecting their roots, language, customs, religion, culture. Or leave, losing goods, home, work, the lands where they were born. Mostly, they chose not to give up their Italian and, in fact, freedom, thought, worship, word. In three hundred thousand – men, women, the elderly, children – gathered some things, followed the sad path of the exodus “recalls the head of state, stressing, however, that” often the reception in Italy was not what it would have was needed to to guarantee. Storms, precarious accommodations, poverty, but above all widespread indifference, distrust. Financial hostility by forces and parts that remembered, in Italy, the same communist ideology as Tito. In the sad events of the exiles, there were acts of strong solidarity, friendship, well -being by many Italians. But in general, its tragedy, of which the scars were intimately brought, was underestimated and sometimes even unknown.

According to Mattarella, “non -recognition was, for many, an unexpected and painful penalty. The establishment of memory day, voted on a very large majority for the Italian parliament, contributed to reconnect to the Italian history that the tragic and neglected chapter, to those Times even guilty. Historical memory is an act of fundamental importance for the life of all states, of the whole community. From the story ». Mattarella’s hope is that the memory of the victims is” preserved and honored “, while” loses its authentic value if it was enslaved to resume divisions or grinders. ” “A strong warning to pacification and reconciliation is captured.” Today, ‘we bring to the heart “hundreds of thousands of stories and return to them the dignity they deserve,” writes the first -minister Giorgia Meloni in social media, stating that the history of Fihimans, Istrian and Dalmatians “is not a story which belongs to a part of the border or what remains of the communities of the exiles, but it is the inheritance of the entire nation. .