On June 12, 1945, the communist occupation of Trieste, Gorizia, and Pola ended, as a result of the Belgrade Agreements signed by the Anglo-Americans and Yugoslavs, after the 9th Corps of Tito's army reached the Julian capital before the Allies on May 1. While the rest of Italy celebrated freedom and democracy, and despite the victorious uprising of the CLN in Trieste on April 30, the eastern border provinces experienced a new occupation, suffered another dictatorship, and mourned further losses: it wasn't liberation, it was an attempt at annexation to the nascent communist Yugoslavia. The mere fact of being Italian was an element...

On May 1, 1945, German forces in Italy surrendered: after lengthy secret negotiations with the Allies, German generals ordered all German forces in Italy to cease hostilities and signed a document of unconditional surrender. Italy prepared to celebrate the arrival of long-awaited peace and the joy of newfound freedom. And while everyone smiled at the end of the war, in Trieste—and along the entire eastern border—the drama seemed never-ending, with the arrival of Tito's partisans, who occupied the city as "liberators." The 40 days of terror of Tito's occupation began. "Trieste is ours—Trst je naš" is a...

The documentary “Trst je naš – Trieste è nostra”, produced by Venicefilm in collaboration with the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Exiles and the CDM (Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture), will be screened on Friday 13 June at 17.30:41 pm at Kinemax (Piazza della Vittoria, 40 – Gorizia), with free admission. The film, previewed at the end of May at the Senate of the Republic, on the initiative of Senator Maurizio Gasparri, and last week in Trieste, retraces the XNUMX days of terror on the eastern border under...

The National League, in collaboration with the Municipality of Trieste, organizes as usual the ceremony to commemorate the fallen of May 5, 1945. That day, a patriotic demonstration was bloodily repressed, which intended to reaffirm the Italianity of the Julian capital in the face of the Yugoslav occupation that began on the previous May 30, after the National Liberation Committee of Trieste had already substantially liberated the city from German occupation on April 5. The procession that crossed the city center waving tricolor flags was shot at by Yugoslav communist militiamen who dispersed the demonstrators, causing injuries and XNUMX deaths: Claudio...