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45 years ago the Treaty of Osimo
November 10, 1975, Treaty of Osimo: if September 8 outrages you, this date should make you scream with rage by Davide Rossi and Lorenzo Salimbeni - 10/11/2020 Source: l'Adige The end of the First World War in November 1918 did not mean the immediate pacification of the Continent, tormented by nationalist claims eager to overturn the borders and by revolutionary ferments inspired by the Bolshevik revolution. Gabriele d'Annunzio's expedition to Fiume at the head of his legionaries represented for Italy the most striking appendix of the conflict, while military missions were located in various crisis areas (Carinthia, Silesia, etc.) and a significant...
Italy's Return to Trieste (But Not Istria)
by Lorenzo Salimbeni and Davide Rossi Source: l'Adige - 26/10/2020 The very famous definition that Winston Churchill gave in 1946 of the Iron Curtain set its extremes at Stettin on the Baltic and Trieste on the Adriatic. Trieste had risen up not on April 25, 1945, but on the 30th, thanks to a National Liberation Committee that had had to face not only Nazi repression, but also denunciations and the will to conduct a parallel resistance by the communist partisans, both Italian and Slovenian and Croatian, who hoped for the annexation to the nascent Titoist Yugoslavia of the lands conquered by Italy at the cost of immense sacrifices during the First...
October 26, 1954: Trieste returns to Italy. Pella's military plan
by Giulio Bendfeldt - 25/10/2020 Source: l'Adige Sixty-six years ago, on October 26, 1954, the national Risorgimento was completed with the definitive return of Trieste to Italy and, after nine years, the period of terror that had accompanied the end of the Second World War in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Istria ended. A period that saw the genocide and then the dramatic exodus of the Italian population of Istria, Dalmatia and the Kvarner Islands. We all remember the photographs of the entry of Italian soldiers into the city that symbolizes that martyrdom, but few remember that to get to that day - in addition to the many deaths in the clashes between Triestine...
The Tripartite Declaration That Never Came True
“The American, British and French Governments have decided to recommend that the Free Territory of Trieste be placed back under Italian sovereignty, which appears to be the best solution if one wishes to take into account the democratic aspirations of the population and the need to restore peace and stability in that region”: this was the most significant part of the Tripartite Declaration issued on 20 March 1948, after the question of the FTT had been far from being resolved for over a year. The Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947, in fact, had left the fate of the Julian capital in suspense, outlining the constitution of a Free Territory of Trieste...
