Do you feel anti-fascist?
"It depends on the meaning one gives to the word anti-fascist. Already during the resistance there were white, Catholic and red anti-fascists. Then there was the militant anti-fascism of the seventies. In that sense it is difficult to give an answer, but if you mean a no decided on dictatorship and nostalgia then yes".
This was stated by the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, on 'Five minutes' on Rai Uno.
There is a tribute to the "absolute value" of the Resistance and immediately after there is the memory of the "aberrations of all totalitarian regimes".
There is the yellow paper butterfly left on the tombstone of the victims of the Nazi concentration camp in Terezin and a few hours earlier there was the bunch of flowers on the cross in memory of Jan Palach, the student who set himself on fire to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa spent April 25 in Prague.
He flew to the Czech capital for the Conference of Presidents of EU Parliaments, after attending the ceremony at the Altare della Patria, in Rome, with the Head of State Sergio Mattarella, the Speaker of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana and the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
The announcement of
homage to Palach in Piazza San Venceslao has raised more than one criticism: "There are 364 days to do it, why precisely the one of Liberation?", said the Anpi, which asked for La Russa's resignation.
The president of the Senate avoided frontal opposition, did not dig furrows: "I went to the monument dedicated to Jan Palach - he told the Conference of Parliamentarians - as I always did every time I came to Prague. And I also did this time because I certainly couldn't lack respect for your story".
Almost solitary ceremony: a bouquet of white flowers, without ribbons or signatures, placed early in the morning, well in advance of the programme.
A choice that ended up misleading even journalists.
In addition to a group of Italians living in Prague, who had organized a protest:
later, where La Russa placed the flowers, they displayed a sign, "Long live the anti-fascist Constitution born of the Resistance", as a response to the declarations on the relationship between anti-fascism and the Charter.
A call that someone - in the opposition - also heard echoed in the speech given in Cuneo by Mattarella, when he spoke of the "Republic founded on the Constitution, daughter of the anti-fascist struggle".
Do you agree with Mattarella's words?
"Of course - replied La Russa - we always agree with the President".
For the second office it was not the day of controversy, of sarcasm.
Little desire to talk to journalists: just a greeting as he got into the car, while a reporter was asking him if "on a day like this" he felt he was an anti-fascist.
For La Russa it was an April 25 more of symbolic gestures than words.
Fifty minutes in the Terezin concentration camp, in silence in front of the gravestones in the cemetery, after visiting the cells.
Then, the crown of flowers, the recollection.
On the way, La Russa found a way to dampen his shock when the guide - an Italian of Peruvian origins - revealed to him that he shared the Interist faith and when there was a quid pro quo on the behavior of the Soviets after the liberation of the camp .
For the words, La Russa chose the Conference of EU Parliaments.
"April 25 is a very important day for Italy, it is the day in which the liberation from the Nazi occupation in the Second World War and the defeat of fascism is remembered", he said, recalling "
the absolute value of the Resistance in overcoming the dictatorship and in restoring democracy to Italy". For La Russa, "the ability to counter any form of totalitarian regime can come from the implementation of courageous policies, from the ability to carry out true peace processes and bearing witness to the aberrations of all totalitarian regimes". And then, the quote from Liliana Segre: "I make my own the words she spoke to the European Parliament on Remembrance Day: 'There was a little girl in Terezin, whose name, which drew a yellow butterfly flying over the barbed wire.
May the yellow butterfly always fly over the barbed wire'".
the ability to counter any form of totalitarian regime can come from the implementation of courageous policies, from the ability to carry out real peace processes and bearing witness to the aberrations of all totalitarian regimes". And then, the quote from Liliana Segre: "I make my own the words he spoke to the European Parliament on Remembrance Day: 'There was a little girl in Terezin, whose name I don't remember, who drew a yellow butterfly flying over the barbed wire.
May the yellow butterfly always fly over the barbed wire'".
the ability to counter any form of totalitarian regime can come from the implementation of courageous policies, from the ability to carry out real peace processes and bearing witness to the aberrations of all totalitarian regimes". And then, the quote from Liliana Segre: "I make my own the words he spoke to the European Parliament on Remembrance Day: 'There was a little girl in Terezin, whose name I don't remember, who drew a yellow butterfly flying over the barbed wire.
May the yellow butterfly always fly over the barbed wire'".
I echo the words he spoke to the European Parliament on Remembrance Day: 'There was a little girl in Terezin, whose name I don't remember, who drew a yellow butterfly flying over the barbed wire.
May the yellow butterfly always fly over the barbed wire'".
I echo the words he spoke to the European Parliament on Remembrance Day: 'There was a little girl in Terezin, whose name I don't remember, who drew a yellow butterfly flying over the barbed wire.
May the yellow butterfly always fly over the barbed wire'".
