Back to reality

I have been silent for quite some time because I was wondering. Wondering why I was doing this, wondering why I continued to be a marginal when the majority of Italians still support Berlusconi. What for ?

But two facts lead me to decide to start writing again:

- the leading fascist who now tries to show himself as a democrat, Mr. Fini, who suddenly discovered Israel and when he goes there wears a kippa, made a speech for the 70th anniversary of the Italian Racial laws. Laws issued by his (former ?) raw model, Mussolini and were the beginning of the persecution of Jews in Italy.

Mr Fini stated, among others, that nobody reacted to their promulgation (unanimous) by the Parliament. No Italian reacted, the Vatican did not react.

So I felt that the same situation happens now: too few react to the way Berlusconi and his allies erode democracy. But this does not mean that the majority of Italians are right, as the lack of reactions to the racial laws meant that they were right.

- Le Monde dated 19 December published a poll of European journalists posted in Brussels by the local newspaper La Tribune. It aimed at rating the 27 heads of government of the Eu during 2008.
The one who got the 27th rank is Berlusconi describes as “fuss maker, unforeseeable and selfish”.

So I am not the only one who finds Berlusconi and Co. dangerous and useless. On the contrary. And being part of a minority does not mean that I am wrong.

And I decide to start writing again on the blog.

I am not going to talk about the financial crisis, too many did it and are doing it, or other main events everybody writes about. But I will continue to blast at Berlusconi, his allies and at idiots in general, European, American, Asian, Catholic, Jews, Muslims, whatever. Here back I am.

One thought on what Mr. Fini stated : that nobody reacted to the racial laws. He is probably right but if one looks carefully, isn’t it a smart way to try to diminish the role of Fascists and of Mussolini. It is a way to make all Italians, and the Vatican, share the responsibility which is of Mussolini and the fascists in the persecution of Italian Jews. A smart way to hide a fascist ideology as democratic. Fini fascist was, fascist still is.

Rewriting history : the good fascism

Historical revisionism is quite trendy in Europe to try to hide what fascism and Nazism did. The number of so-called historians denying or diminishing the importance of the Nazis gas chambers is increasing in Europe. Politicians are quite active also in this field. Remember Le Pen, the right wing French politicians declaring that the gas chambers (and related millions of deaths) were a simple “detail” of the German history.

People reading my blog, very few so far I admit according to the counters, may think that I am obsessed by Fascism in the Italian Government. True, Mr. Fini, the leader of the main party allied with Berlusconi, Alleanza Nazionale (AN), the heir of the openly fascist MSI, and now Chairman of the Chamber, five years ago went to Jerusalem and, a Kippa on his head, declared that Fascism had been the “absolute evil”. Some members of his party did not accept this statement and contested it openly.

The other day, Mr. Alemanno, the major of Rome, also a member of AN, was in Jerusalem. Of course he wore a Kippa.. He stated that indeed the racial laws, promulgated in 1938 by Mussolini, which forced Jews out of public service and started the repression in Italy, had been the “absolute evil”. Fascism had not been “the absolute evil and I do not f eel I could condemn it”. Yes a representative of the majority leading Italy under the leadership of Berlusconi, goes to Jerusalem to defend fascism.

And the chair of the MPs of Berlusconi’s majority, Mr. Cicchito, defended Alemanno stating that “he had said things that had some basis”. Fortunately the Jewish community reacted. So did the left.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the 1943 armistice between Italy and the allies which marked that beginning of the real Nazi occupation of Italy. There was a ceremony to remember the defense of Rome by partisans and the population at large against the Nazi and fascist troops. And, in the course of his speech, another member of AN, now even Minister of Defense, stated that also the “repubblichini”, those who adhered to the so-called “Repubblica di Salò”, needed to be celebrated because from “their point of view, fought believing that they were defending their homeland”.

The so-called Repubblica di Salò was a bureaucratic political and military structure, created by Nazi Germany to “administer Italy”. After it was created, this so-called Republic was recognized only by Germany, Japan, Switzerland (yes!) and San Marino. It was de facto controlled by Germany and its army was trained there, the Nazis having no faith in the Italian soldiers: indeed these formed a big component of the partisans fighting against Nazis.

It is interesting to note article 7 of the de-facto constitution of the Repubblica di Salò: “Those who belong to the Jewish race are foreigners. During the war they belong to an enemy nation”.

The creation of such a Republic was the start to the Jews hunting in Italy. As mentioned in Wikipedia, reliable statistics collected by Liliana Picciotto Fargion, Jews deported to Germany were arrested by Italian members of the Repubblica di Salò apparatus, 4.44 by German and Italians together and 35.49 by Germans alone ( there are no data for the remaining 32.99%).

The Repubblica di Salò also created the infamous “Brigate nere”, para-military groups used by the Germans especially to fight partisans and famous for the killing of women and kids, burning of villages, torture etc.

So in 2008, a Minister of Berlusconi’s government praises the Nazi-fascist Repubblica di Salò while at the same time the major of Rome, belonging to the new Berlusconi’s party, defends fascism.

And what Berlusconi says? Nothing. What would you expect from him who never goes to the celebrations for the liberation of Italy from the German occupation on 25 April 1945? It is time for the Jewish community worldwide, and for all democrats, to start opposing Berlusconi and his Government. Time for smiles is gone.

Photo : fascist Ignazio La Russa. Defence Minister in Berlusconi's Government. Source: www.gossip.it

Mafia and Fascism

Photo: the killing of Pio La Torre by Mafia in 1982

Since a few years, revisionism is growing in Italy: streets with names of fascists, statues (small) of Mussolini, attempts to put at the same level those fascists who fought with the Nazis occupying Italy and the partisans, non attendance by the Prime Minister (Berlusconi) at the celebrations of 25 April, the day Italy was finally free from Nazism (thus the name of my blog).

The latest case is the worst and indicative of the way Italy goes.

Comiso is a small town in Sicily, near Ragusa. Famous for a US nuclear missile base which was opposed by the left. The leader against the base was Pio La Torre, a communist leader who although in a prominent position in Rome decided to return to Sicily to fight Mafia. In 1982 he was killed by the Mafia. According to witnesses it was due to the fact that he was pushing for a law to seize the wealth of “Mafiosi”.

The military airport became civilian in 2007 and the airport was named Pio La Torre. But in 2008 the right Alleanza Nazionale, those who claim that they are no longer fascists, decided to change the name of the airport and put the old one: “Vincenzo Magliocco”. Who is he ? nothing else than an Italian General who died in Ethiopia in 1936 during the Fascist colonial war.

You take away the name of someone who fought the Mafia and for the poor to celebrate a colonialist arm of fascist war.

Not different from what said Dell'Utri, founder of Berlusconi's party and friend of his, condemned for Mafia, who complained about the name of Palermo's airport: Falcone and Borsellino, two judges killed by Mafia. It gives a bad impression of Sicily, he said ....

This is Italy now, this is what the Berlusconi’s government leads to. Beware, democracy is in danger. Fascism is back

Photo: storiadopostoria.kataweb.it
Source: Wikipedia, Repubblica.it