Our fellow countrymen from Istria, Carnaro and Dalmatia were among the first in Italy to experience the logic of the Cold War as a contrast between a free and democratic West, which 70 years ago gave birth to NATO as a defense tool, and a totalitarian communist bloc. After the first signs of killings in the foibe that occurred in the aftermath of September 8, 1943, our fellow countrymen suffered the massacres committed by Tito's Yugoslav communist partisans after the war ended in the Forty Days of May-June 1945. This was followed by a steady stream of killings in the area under Yugoslav military administration, where the dictatorship of Belgrade was consolidating (the...