Berlusconi, long live April 25, the feast of those who love freedom

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«In 2009, a few weeks after the terrible earthquake that hit L’Aquila, I went to Onna to celebrate the Liberation Day. I had chosen that small town in Abruzzo, which had been the scene of a terrible massacre carried out by the Nazis during the war and which had suffered profound damage and serious losses from the earthquake, because I had seen in momentum of solidarity which had united all Italians to the affected populations, the same spirit that many years before had allowed Italy to rise again from the ruins of war”.

The leader of Forza Italia declares it Silvio Berlusconi, in a note. “On that occasion I recalled the”spirit of national unity” which animated all the protagonists of the resistance who knew how to set aside the deepest differences, political, religious, social, to fight together a battle of civilization and freedom for themselves and for their children – adds the former prime minister -. Catholics and communists, liberals and socialists, monarchists and shareholders, and with them the military who remained faithful not to a political idea but to the honor of the homeland, even if moved by profoundly different ideals and by a different vision of the future of Nation, faced with a common drama, they wrote, each for their own part, but with equal dignity and passion, a great page in our history. An extraordinary page on which our Constitution is based, a bulwark of our freedoms and rights. We are a great people, capable of remaining united in the face of emergencies and which, if necessary, today as yesterday, is capable of overcoming any division and any contrast to achieve the good of Italy and the Italians”.

«This – he concludes – is a heritage, a founding principle of our civil coexistence, which belongs to all Italians, without exception. The anniversary of April 25, 1945 is therefore theopportunity to reflect on the past, but also to think about the present and the future of our wonderful country. And so:; Long live April 25, the feast of freedom, peace and democracy. The celebration of all Italians who love freedom and want to remain free!».