(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 20 - "The song 'Bella Ciao' is part of the Italian cultural heritage, known internationally, translated and sung all over the world. It is a song that spreads completely universal values of opposition to wars and extremism ".
This is what the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina replies to the deputy of FdI Fabio Rampelli, vice-president of the Chamber, who had presented a question in which he said he was disconcerted and worried about the news that in a middle school the music teacher, "making him pass teaching", had assigned as a task the rhythmic reading and instrumental performance of the piece.
In particular, reported Rampelli, the teacher "assigned 'Bella Ciao' to be performed as a symbol of the Liberation that we celebrated on April 25, ignoring that, while that date objectively represents the liberation of Italy from the Nazi dictatorship and occupation, the partisan anthem is divisive because it represents a well-defined political party, unfortunately also the protagonist of heinous and unjustified violence also against civilians, women priests and children "and" it is established that many fringes who sang the partisan anthem organized the submission of Italy to the USSR ".
Alongside the minister, Nicola Fratoianni, the vice-president for Leu of the Montecitorio Culture Commission, took the field.
"Frankly it is singular - he maintains - that in such a complicated phase for the life of Italians, there are political forces of the Italian right, in particular of FDI, so indignant and worried that Bella Ciao is sung in the schools of our country. The government did well to remember that this song belongs to the cultural heritage of our country and beyond, and which spreads universal values ".
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