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Norma Cossetto, Porzûs, Vergarolla. Faces and stories of forgotten massacres
Raimo and Montanari permitting, let's return to the denied tragedy of the Italians of Istria, Dalmatia and Venezia Giulia. Which only an imbecile can claim has anything to do with the Shoah, except that it was an immense tragedy. Of which the foibe are the apex. Continue on http://www.ilfoglio.it/uffa/2022/02/22/news/norma-cossetto-porzu-s-vergarolla-volti-e-storie-di-stragi-dimenticate-3715630/ Giampiero Mughini Source: Il Foglio - 22/02/2022 A nice article by Giampiero Mughini on Il Foglio. Mughini, remembering the Dalmatian Enzo Bettiza and his book 'Esilio', defends the Day of Remembrance from Montanari, Raimo, Barbero and others and with it the immense tragedy of the people...
«Remembrance Day allows us to renew the memory of the victims. No to denialist theses»
Statement by the President of the Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico: "The Day of Remembrance allows the entire community to preserve and renew the memory of all the victims of the foibe, of the exodus from their lands of the Istrians, Fiume and Dalmatians in the Second World War and of the story of the eastern border. Those events represent a very painful page in our history and the attempt, perpetrated over time, to cover up the dynamics and historical contours has been an unacceptable operation. Just as unacceptable are the denialist theses: in no case can ideological motivations or compromises aimed at legitimizing the violation be considered admissible...
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...
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...
The Complexity of the Eastern Border History
With reference to the article “History rewritten in silence” by Simonetta Fiori in the Tuesday 6 July edition of “Repubblica”, the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles would like to make some clarifications. First of all, it is painful to note that the history of the eastern border is always interpreted in the context of fascism and the political attack on the right, forgetting centuries of Italian presence, history, culture and tradition on the eastern Adriatic coast, as well as the adherence to the Risorgimento of native ruling classes and volunteers. It is necessary to distinguish the ideological and political reading that has...
They want to cancel February 10th
A little book by a certain Eric Gobetti (which intends to minimize and even justify the foibe) and now the usual, stale manifesto of intellectuals, not even very qualified, aimed at asking the highest Italian institutions for yet another recognition of the war crimes committed by the Italian Army in Yugoslavia during the Second World War, appear to be two elements of the same, evident political plan: that of trying to erase from our civil calendar the Day of Remembrance, that February 10 (which is less and less a reason for public demonstrations today), established in 2004 so as not to forget the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian and Fiuman exodus. We who among the...
1941, the implosion of the first Yugoslavia
The counterfactual narrative of the worst left on the Yugoslav invasion of the Italian border regions and the subsequent massacre and ethnic cleansing continues to repeat, as mentioned in a previous post, the usual justificationist nonsense. The premise is that of the fascist aggression against poor Yugoslavia in April 1941. Beyond certain nonsense, let's see how things went. With the fall of the Yugoslav prime minister Stojadinović, it seemed that the friendship between Rome and Belgrade, strengthened by the Italo-Yugoslav pacts of 1937, was to come to an abrupt end: however, relations with Belgrade seemed to soon clear up, so much so that Mussolini, visiting the front...
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