In Bergamo Gori with the mayor of Bucha: “April 25, today like yesterday, resisting is a duty. History cannot be rewritten”

“April 25 – dear friends, dear Anatolij – reminds us that resistance is a duty, yesterday as today, in any circumstance freedom is in danger”: the mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori concluded with these words (together with the exhortation Long live Italy, long live the Resistance, long live April 25th) his speech for the Liberation Day in the square in Bergamo, which was also attended by Anatoly Fedoruk, the mayor of Bucha, a Ukrainian city martyred in the first phase of Russian aggression. A “criminal invasion” wanted by “a dictator”, underlined Gori, provocatively asking “Can we say that Putin’s is a fascist regime?”. In the square too Rosie Bindi.

“The Ukrainians are heroically resisting the criminal invasion wanted by that dictator – he added -: with our help and on our behalf. Do they also fight with our weapons? Yes, also to avoid us being forced to pick them up tomorrow”. “Arms and munitions sent to Ukraine – according to Gori -, together with financial and humanitarian support, have so far made it possible to curb the Russian occupation. To those who ask for the suspension of military aid, I reply as I did last year, quoting the Unit of 26 October 1943, who wrote: “It is necessary to react against those who maintain that in order not to unleash German terror in Italy it is necessary to do nothing. Those who preach resignation and passivity are responsible for German terrorism”.

But the mayor of Bergamo also cited the senator for life Liliana Segrea survivor of Auschwitz: “if we want to be faithful to our values ​​we must support the Ukrainian people who struggle not to succumb to the invader, not to lose their freedom”.

In his speech, Gori also spoke of the government: “The eve of April 25 was characterized by obvious ‘grammar mistakes’ around the memory of what fascism was, what the Resistance was and the very meaning of the Constitution, all the more so relevant as they come from senior representatives of the institutions. If the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine is told as a massacre of ‘Italians as Italians’, rather than as a massacre of anti-fascists, if the 11th company of the 3rd Bozen battalion attacked in via Rasella it is described as a musical band, if it is said that anti-fascism does not appear in the Constitution, there is something that does not add up. Something important”. It is one of the passages of the speech by the mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori to celebrate April 25th.

“There are some positive signs, but we observe that this date continues to be ‘divisive’ for many. The temptation to rewrite history must be fought vigorously, as well as the risk contained in the omissions. We will not allow anyone to rewrite anti-fascist history of our country” underlines the mayor who recalls how “every single chapter of the Constitution is written in direct contrast to fascism. to say ‘anti-fascism’, indeed one does not say it at all, almost as if one did not want to give up that same residual identity of which one is accused. I think it’s not good, especially for those who are now in government, lead the country and are responsible for our international relations”.