The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, took part in the celebrations in Bari for the eightieth anniversary of the first Congress of National Liberation Committees, which took place in the theater of the Apulian capital on 28 and 29 January 1944.
"Let us not forget the misdeeds, the shame and the catastrophe into which fascism dragged Italy. That sense of liberation, that liberation from fascism and war requires coherent actions on our part today that continue to keep it healthy day after day day," said Apulian governor
Michele Emiliano
.
"I am honored to bring the greeting of the Anpi to a celebration which, upon closer inspection, speaks of that pluralist national community that we call the democratic and anti-fascist Republic, which in some way begins to take shape here, exactly eighty years ago", said the national president of the Anpi,
Gianfranco Pagliarulo
.
"On 28 and 29 January 1944 in this corner of Southern Italy, while the Savoy monarchy was dying overwhelmed by events,
in the Piccinni Theater
the word democracy was written in black and white, and
the definitive break with the fascist state was sanctioned
and with the Italian monarchy, working for the rebirth of Italy, finally anti-fascist and free to determine its own future", said the mayor of Bari,
Antonio Decaro
.
Mattarella, after leaving the Piccinni theater in Bari, reached the nearby
Castello Svevo to visit the exhibition
"Despite the long time that has passed - The Nazi-Fascist massacres in the war of liberation 1943-1945".
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