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Mattarella: «Remembrance is a commitment to civilization»
The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance, released the following statement: "The Day of Remembrance calls the Republic to recollection and solidarity with the families and descendants of those who were cruelly killed and thrown into the foibe, of the Italians torn from their homes and forced to exodus, of all those who on the eastern border had to pay the highest human costs for the horrors of the Second World War and its prolongation in persecution, violent nationalism, oppressive totalitarianism. It is a civil commitment to preserve and renew the memory of the tragedy...
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...
On the Road to Remembrance, February 10, 2022
What is Memory? A moment of emotion that lasts the time of a day? No. For us it is something much more important! What happened in Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia is not only a page of history to remember, and to make remembered, on February 10 but then we forget for the rest of the year. The violence suffered by the foibati, the injustice of the exodus but also the dignity of love of country, the stories of greatness and redemption, that the Italians of the eastern Adriatic have given us, deserve much more than a simple, even if dutiful, ceremony of a few people. To ensure that it is a shared memory the road is still long and many, too many, are...
Law 92/2004 of the Day of Remembrance means Mother-Homeland, solidarity, democracy, freedom.
Va ' pensiero...Homeland or Mother-Homeland, the land of the ancestors. Lately there has been a lot of talk about Homeland in Italy for political and cultural identity purposes. It is good that it is being talked about and its ancient and ideal value is being rediscovered. A term that in the long post-war period became obsolete and hostile to the dominant political culture of single thought, which willingly used anti-fascism to make every form of action and alternative political thought uniform. A well-known intellectual, Galli Della Loggia, spoke years ago in one of his essays of "Death of the Homeland", denouncing and trying to explain a long and unjust process of removal of a high ideal, cultural and historical concept. Carlo...
Foibe and the public use of history
Instrumental polemics do not help build a bridge between the European past and present. The outbursts on the tragedy of the Julian foibe continue with new protagonists, often going as far as literally wanting to abolish law 92/2004. I do not intend to dwell here on what bizarre relevance there is to wanting to overturn an almost unanimous vote of the Italian parliament in favor of a law that intended to connect the memory of the Julian-Dalmatian exiles with national and European history. Obviously, this law, which established the Day of Remembrance of the suffering experienced by the Italian populations of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia cannot and should not be abolished on the basis of...
A short and divisive memory against the Day of Remembrance
Further reply to Prof. Tomaso Montanari, who is against law 92/2004, which established the Day of Remembrance and which was supported by Senator Miloš Budin, a member of the DS, from the Slovenian minority. All those who would like to abolish the Day of Remembrance, with Prof. Montanari at the forefront, should always be reminded of the voting data expressed in the Chamber: out of 521 deputies present, 502 were in favour, 14 against, 4 abstentions. The political groups that voted in favour were Alleanza Nazionale, Democrati di Sinistra DS, Forza Italia, Lega Nord, Margherita, Unione di Centro UDC, Gruppo Misto. The Rifondazione Comunista and the Italian Communists were against the law....
Defending the Day of Remembrance and the memory of the Foibe and the Exodus
Meeting debate on the foibe and the use of history held in Rome at the Nomentano high school in Rome yesterday afternoon, October 12, with an audience largely composed of teachers. Participants Eric Gobetti (author of the justificationist pamphlet "And then the foibe?"), Tomaso Montanari (new rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena but recent protagonist of statements contrary to the Day of Remembrance and justificationist) and Marino Micich (Society of Fiumani studies - Historical Archive Museum of Fiume). In essence Gobetti and Montanari reiterated their well-known position on the foibe, on the Julian Dalmatian exodus and above all for a good part of the conference the two aforementioned guests have...
Croatia has made Remembrance Day a custom
In diplomacy, sometimes we proceed at a snail's pace, unlike politics, where everything - theater and little theaters - takes place under the spotlight. Small steps count and sometimes these lead to positive results and important changes. So I delude myself that I too have made some progress, with the recognition, by Croatia, of the "Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus". In fact, since it was introduced in 2004 as a debt of gratitude towards the memory of the thousands of Italians who were victims of blind and brutal violence carried out by the Yugoslavian secret police and with various vendettas, inspired by class hatred or...
Remembrance Day demands respect
We have received and are happy to publish this communication from Dr. Umberto Zuballi (for years President of the Regional Administrative Court of Friuli Venezia Giulia), sent to the editorial staff of Fatto Quotidiano regarding the Montanari issue, but not published. As an old Istrian, I cannot remain silent in the face of the current, sad controversy over the foibe. First of all, it makes no sense to compare or contrast the Day of Remembrance with that of Memory, or even with April 25. They are different moments in our history, which must be shared. As for the Day of Remembrance, the law establishing it was approved by Parliament with a very broad...
Hands off Remembrance Day
The Day of Remembrance belongs first and foremost to the Julian-Dalmatian community and obtained the vote of 95% of the Parliamentarians. The historiography of the left linked to the suggestions of the old PCI unloads the historical responsibility of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus first on liberal Italy (for them one fact counts... that the Risorgimento was not made by the popular masses, who did not want Italy to enter the 1915-'18 war for Trento and Trieste) and then very decisively on the fascist regime. Furthermore, they establish in their syntheses a curious cause-effect relationship in reading the history of the eastern border. The various Montanari Barbero, D'Orsi, Gobetti and others do not...
