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The (ephemeral) liberation of Trieste took place on April 30th
As is well known, the liberation of the Peninsula from Nazi-Fascist occupation, symbolized by the celebration of April 25, in Trieste and Venezia Giulia represented nothing more than the prologue to the establishment of another dictatorship in these territories. More than liberation, in fact, for our lands, all things considered, we can speak of an attempt – more or less successful – at reoccupation by Communist Yugoslavia. With the well-known cry of “We do not want the others, we do not give our own” the so-called liberators concentrated their forces to arrive before the Allies in Gorizia, Trieste and Istria, initially ignoring the most logical ambitions of...
Quarantotti Gambini, Istrian patriot but wrong Italian
April 22nd of this year marks the 55th anniversary of the death of Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini, a narrator and journalist born in Istria. Quarantotti Gambini passed away prematurely in 1965 at just 55 years of age, due to a heart attack caused by a heated discussion in a living room in Venice where he was a guest after the exodus, in a sort of voluntary exile that led him to devote himself almost exclusively to writing. Born in Pisino in 1910, son of a Rovinj native and a Capodistrian woman, Pier Antonio spent his childhood and adolescence in Semedella, near Capodistria, a place often evoked in his literary creations. During the Second World War,...
Codarin at Radio Cusano Campus
On the occasion of the 2020 Day of Remembrance, the president of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Cav. Renzo Codarin, was interviewed by Fabio Camillacci in the column "La storia oscura" on Radio Cusano Campus, the radio station (also web radio) of the Niccolò Cusano University of Rome. The interview can be listened to here in...
Remembrance Day is a historical heritage for all Italians
Remembrance Day 2020 marks further significant steps forward to ensure that the tragedy of the foibe, the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, and the reintegration of 350.000 Istrians, Fiume, and Dalmatians to new residences, often beyond Italy's borders, becomes an increasingly shared heritage of the national community. Unfortunately, in the days leading up to February 10th, we are witnessing the persistence of ambiguous, if not downright self-justifying, initiatives that seek to downplay the suffering of the indigenous Italian community of the eastern Adriatic, from the Habsburg legislative measures to the annexation to Yugoslavia.
Deputy Minister Del Re commits himself to the exiles
The dialogue between the Government and the associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles continues to resolve the open issues regarding the world of the Adriatic diaspora and the subject of the work of the Coordination Table established at the Presidency of the Council. A delegation of representatives of the associations of exiles was received by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Emanuela Claudia Del Re, in order to give continuity to last summer's meeting with the head of the Farnesina, at the time Minister Moavero Milanesi. The delegation also included the president of the National Association of Venice...
The new life of Julian-Dalmatian exiles protected by NATO
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...
The indissoluble bond between Trieste and Italy
The mourning and emotions that crossed Trieste in the days following the death of Pierluigi Rotta and Matteo Demenego represent the deep and sometimes tragic bond that the Julian capital has with Italy and with those who represent it on the territory. The names of the "sons of the stars" were added in the atrium of the city police headquarters to those of the dozens of state servants and guarantors of the safety of citizens who were deported, thrown into sinkholes and killed by Tito's communist partisans during the terrible Forty Days that shook Trieste and Venezia Giulia after the war ended in the spring of 1945. A little over a century ago, Italy finally arrived in Trieste,...
D'Annunzio, protagonist of his era and of the Adriatic Italianity
Gabriele d'Annunzio, a complex and multifaceted character, continues to be subjected to criticism based on an obsolete historiography and conditioned by clichés that have now been surpassed even by the most recent historical dissemination. The same Fiume enterprise must be contextualized in the historical context that saw the deputy Andrea Ossoinack, democratically elected representative of Fiume, appeal in October 1918 during one of the last sessions of the Habsburg Parliament in Budapest to the principle of self-determination of peoples to explain the will to be annexed to Italy that the capital of Carnaro was manifesting with ever greater conviction. The...
Exodus and Foibe, the position of the Italian State was traced by Mattarella
Codarin (ANVGD): “Mattarella has well defined the synthesis and perspective of a path built over the years by the Julian Dalmatian associations thanks to Lucio Toth and enlightened exponents of various political and cultural extractions”. The position of the Italian State regarding the attempts to justify or deny the Foibe massacres has already been authoritatively stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the recent celebration at the Quirinale of the Day of Remembrance. In fact, on that occasion, President Mattarella, firmly condemning any attempt at historical revisionism, clearly highlighted the criminal matrix...
A turning point of Remembrance in Italy
The Day of Remembrance 2019 is a fundamental step in the reconstruction of the historical truth regarding the most tragic pages of history of the eastern Italian border. First of all because the words pronounced by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the institutional ceremony held at the Quirinale on February 9 condemned without appeal the justificationists and deniers. In front of 300 exiles and representatives of the Adriatic diaspora associations and live on television, the Head of State captured the peculiar aspects of our history and was able to present them to all Italians in a heartfelt and convincing manner, without reticence and...
