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TV programming for Remembrance Day 2022
A tragic page in Italian history, a wounded and contested land, crushed by border tensions in an Italy on the edge of the Iron Curtain. Istria and Dalmatia between 1943 and 1947 became the scene of massacres, of lives sucked into the darkness of the foibe, the karst cavities that dot the territory of Venezia Giulia, a place from which thousands left fearing for their survival. Parliament has chosen February 10 as the Day of Remembrance, in memory of the victims of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exiles, and Rai will dedicate broadcasts, in-depth reports and special programming on TV, radio and the web to this anniversary. All the...
Fiume: The failed start of a revolution
“D’Annunzio passes by with his legionaries: – die, maybe! – Betray, why? Fiume is the flame that burns and devours…”. Students sang these words in the streets of Italy, to the tune of a song that was in fashion at the time, Donna, between 19 and 20. It could have been a love song: but it spoke of war, of death. Perhaps, of revolution. And it spoke of Fiume as it could have spoken of a sweetheart, of a lover. After Trento and Trieste, the young nationalists had thus found their third Great Love, the one worth dying for. But it had all started quietly. With the secret pacts of London on 26 April 1915,...
