Murgia on the parade on June 2: "La Russa makes the victory sign: with her old fascist militancy, never denied, everything becomes a reenactment"

Murgia on the parade on June 2: "La Russa makes the victory sign: with her old fascist militancy, never denied, everything becomes a reenactment"

Mount the controversy on the post of Michelle Murgia which denounces a 'Roman salute' from the Comsubin raiders of the Navy at the military parade at the Imperial Forums: green overalls and beret, faces distorted by a handkerchief, the specialists shout 'Decima' under the stage of the authorities. With the president of the Senate Ignatius LaRussa who "smiles a lot and makes the victory sign". Despite the denial of military sources (no reference to the X flotilla Mas and no outstretched arm but only 'l'attenti a sinist', which is the greeting to the authority rostrum), also Roberto Saviano has relaunched the video published by Murgia on social media. Which now with a new video explains her outrage.

Murgia's premise: "I am anti-militarist"

She opens her video, also published on Instagram, with a long premise: "I am an anti-militarist, it's not a mystery. It doesn't mean that I hate the military, but that I am a citizen of a state that explicitly repudiates war in its constitution. There is it is written there. If we really believe that that is the most beautiful Constitution in the world we should all be anti-militarists. I find it meaningless to celebrate the birth of a democracy by showing the war apparatus - says Michela Murgia - because that is what dictatorships do ". Recalling that the armed forces already have their own holiday, November 4th.

On the other hand, June 2 "is the feast of all citizens and it would be nice if a civilized and peaceful country paraded the expressions of its best democratic life. And he reveals his dream: "A parade opened by artists and Italian artists, followed by medical personnel, teachers, tax payers, journalists. Kites would fly in the sky."

Murgia's explanation to his video of 2 June

Then he addresses the controversy that arose following his video and commentary on the June 2nd parade which he had criticized claiming that a Navy unit would have made the Roman salute addressed to the authority gallery, then evoking the X MAS, the unit that collaborated with the Nazis against the Allies and was responsible for war crimes. The writer speaks of the 'normalization process' and points out the "impassive" gaze of the President of the Republic Mattarellawhile the president of the Senate Russia "smiles a lot and makes the victory sign". Military sources deny: 'The raised arm is for 'l'attenti a sinist', which is the salute to the authority platform; the cry "Decimà is the motto of the Comsubin raiding operations group and has nothing to do with the X Mas of the Social Republic". Defense Minister Crosetto replied: "Those who tarnish the Comsubin with absurd comparisons with the CSR despise the value and work of the Special Forces".

Now to those who intervened in the social and political debate explaining that this is a military march salute, Murgia replied that these gestures lend themselves to different interpretations, and this is demonstrated by the pleased reaction of the president of the Senate, Ignatius LaRussa, present in the authority box. "I was told: how ignorant Murgia is, they don't know that the initial gesture is not an outstretched arm but the choreographic signal to coordinate whoever follows. How ignorant Murgia is, who doesn't know that the Decima cry is not a tribute to infamous X Mas flotilla, but to the tenth royal regiment 1943 from which the Navy was born. I won't be timing how long the leader's outstretched arm lasted compared to the start gesture - observes the writer - I want to wonder if the Decima cry had other purposes other than evoking the glory of an honored regiment. The point is another: this sequence of potentially interpretable gestures and words did not take place at random but under a stage of honor where someone then actually interpreted them". Here we come to La Russa: "The senator, second in charge of the state, the one with the bust of Mussolini in his house, responded to what should be common gestures in the economy of the liturgy of the parade, with an uncommon sign: the V for victory Now I don't think he was complimenting the choreographic coordination - Murgia says ironically - So the real question is: am I ignorant and those who interpreted the video like me because like anyone we don't know the secret signs of the special bodies of the armed forces. Or it is the president of the Senate who has exploited those signs and words in his own way, letting anyone watching from home guess that that sequence implied something else". If the answer is the latter, which Murgia believes, "it should be the armed forces themselves who asked La Russa why she allowed, with her pantomina from the stage, to misunderstand their innocent gesture as if it were a tribute among nostalgic republicans" .

And again, concludes the writer in her video: "If he hadn't been on that stage, no one would have thought what many of us thought, but he was there. I'm sorry for the detractors, this changes the whole interpretative frame, it is the fact of having in the institutions people with a veteran fascist militancy never denied to create the conditions in which every language - even the most innocent - loses its innocence and becomes re-enactment or provocation". The video closes with a question: "Who is more ignorant: who does not interpret the single detail well or who does not interpret the context as a whole well?". Answer: "I don't know." Smile.



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