The Cav. remember Onna’s speech: “Long live April 25, the feast of all Italians who love freedom”

“In 2009, a few weeks after the terrible earthquake that struck L’Aquila, I went to Onna to celebrate 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 the impulse of solidarity which had united all the Italians to affected populations, the same spirit that many years before had allowed Italy to rise again from the ruins of the war”, recalled Silvio Berlusconi. With a note released on the eve of April 25, still hospitalized at San Raffaele in Milan, Cav. breaks the silence to invoke him once more stop the divisions and invite people to make Liberation a celebration “for all Italians who love freedom and want to stay free”the Resistance, says the leader of Forza Italia, was an “extraordinary page on which our Constitution is based”.

In 2009 in Onna, he still remembers the Cav. “I had recalled the ‘spirit of national unity’ which animated all the protagonists of the resistance who knew how to set aside the deepest political, religious, social differences, to fight together a battle of civilization and freedom for themselves and for their children. Catholics and communists, liberals and socialists, monarchists and shareholders, and with them the soldiers 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 our rights “.

“We we are a great peoplecapable of remaining united in the face of emergencies and which, if necessary, today as yesterday, is capable of overcoming every division and every contrast to achieve the good of Italy and the Italians. This 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 an opportunity 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 stay free!“, he concludes.