The "Train of Remembrance" will serve "not to reopen the wounds of the past, not to divide again but to close a circle, to heal that shame and mend that feeling of solidarity on which every nation is founded".
Thus the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the National Monument of Basovizza for the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Foibe.
"I think it is a wonderful initiative, the one we are inaugurating today, of the train that runs like a sort of museum throughout the national territory the story of the Foibe and the exodus, also to heal the shame of the exiles who arrived on a train to remain Italians in Italy and they were not exactly reciprocated with the same love."
"I am very proud of this work, as of the memory museum that will be born in Rome - she added - precisely because it is not a story that concerns a piece of the Italian border but Italy as a whole".
Being there, you said, is "a different emotion for what the presence of a Prime Minister tells and means. For me it has always been very emotional, I think it was even more important to be there in this capacity".
I believe it was a necessary act, also because I discovered that no Prime Minister had ever been to the Basovizza celebration".
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