Clash on April 25, Mattarella invites us to keep the memory alive

It is necessary to "keep alive the memory" of the Nazi-fascist atrocities but above all not to forget those who fought and "allowed the liberation of Italy from Nazi-fascist oppression".

With this simple reasoning, the President of the Republic anticipates the celebrations of April 25 which never before this year, with the advent of an openly "right-center" government, design a country divided by ancient lacerations, evidently not completely overcome.

The plastic representation of this all-political division - which goes well beyond a day marked in red on the calendar as a national holiday - opens wide when reading the agenda of the first two state offices: the President of the Republic will be in Piedmont, with a symbolic stop in Boves,

scene of the first massacre carried out in Italy by the Nazis (24 civilians killed, 350 houses set on fire) carried out on 19 September 1943 to punish the Italian traitors of 8 September;

the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, will instead fly across the border to Prague to pay homage to the figure of Jan Palach, the young Czechoslovak who became a symbol of anti-communism because on 16 January 1969 he committed suicide by setting himself on fire to protest against the Soviet invasion right in Saint Wenceslas square where the president of the Senate will deposit a crown.

It remains to be noted that La Russa will also visit the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Prague.

Ignazio La Russa, on the other hand, will fly across the border to Prague to pay homage to the figure of Jan Palach, the young Czechoslovakian who became a symbol of anti-communism because on January 16, 1969 he committed suicide by setting himself on fire to protest against the Soviet invasion in Wenceslas Square where the president of the Senate will deposit a crown.

It remains to be noted that La Russa will also visit the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Prague.

Ignazio La Russa, on the other hand, will fly across the border to Prague to pay homage to the figure of Jan Palach, the young Czechoslovakian who became a symbol of anti-communism because on January 16, 1969 he committed suicide by setting himself on fire to protest against the Soviet invasion in Wenceslas Square where the president of the Senate will deposit a crown.

It remains to be noted that La Russa will also visit the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Prague.

April 25, the partisans remember the women of the Resistance in Rome

Palazzo Chigi does not fit into this dichotomy: Giorgia Meloni should in fact limit herself to the strictly institutional part of the passage to the Altare della Patria together with the head of state, La Russa himself and the president of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana.

The appeal of Gianfranco Fini, a man who symbolizes the moderate change in Fiuggi, to clearly pronounce the word anti-fascism does not seem to have been accepted at the moment.

As was foreseeable in this climate, the National Partisans Association (Anpi), which has always been the memory and engine of the celebrations of the Liberation, is heavily inserted, attacking the second love of the State for its choice: "I was struck that the president of the Senate tomorrow will travel to Prague to pay homage to Jan Palach who is certainly a hero of freedom:

but there are another 364 days a year to do it.

It would have been more logical to bring a flower where there was the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine or the massacre of Marzabotto or Sant'Anna di Stazzema", argued the national president of the Anpi, Gianfranco Pagliarulo, In this climate the cities Italians are preparing for the day that commemorates the liberation from Nazi-fascism: if the opposition confirms the traditional occasions in the cities and in memory points, the center-right asks to overcome the divisions but internally, in turn, if not divisions emerge , different approaches. The president of the Chamber Fontana stood out decisively, explaining that he feels "fully anti-fascist". Salvini only confirms that he will celebrate on April 25 but reiterates that "

"April 25 is a fundamental date in the history of our Republic: it marks the defeat of the fascist dictatorship, the end of the war, the return to freedom and democracy", writes the Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara, in a message for April 25th. 

The secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, will participate in the traditional procession in Milan and many of the opposition will be in Rome at the Anpi procession from the Fosse Ardeatine and at Porta San Paolo.

A delegation from Italia Viva will go to via Rasella, while the leader of M5S Giuseppe Conte will be at the historical museum of Liberation in via Tasso.

Finally, Bella ciao, the symbolic song of the Resistance, also returns to the table with a proposal that does not seem destined to pacify souls: it becomes the song to be officially played in all the ceremonies of April 25, asks the Democratic Party.

Valditara, we condemn fascism, we are for freedom