It should be a symbolic day for the Country, and in fact it is. The symbol of national ignorance
by Emanuele Bonini
It could seem a joke, but it is not. Italians don't know they had a liberation day. Maybe they simply don't remember, but what is worst between ignorance and amnesia? In every case there no is self-consciousness, and that's something not good. Having no memories means deny the and history. If there is nothing to be remembered, then nothing happened. In the occasion of the celebration of the latest Liberation Day, some journalists went up and down Italy to ask new generations which anniversary marks the 25th of April. The outcome was embarrassing. Of course we can imagine a lot of answers were cut in order to give the idea of general environment. There are still those know what Nazi-fascism was, but the reportage has shown a lot of people admitting to don't know the answer. It sounded weird listening to a young man saying «there's nothing to celebrate since I didn't want to be freed», because at that time he wasn't born yet. Despite the political ideas, Italians are a people with no memory and a people with no memory is a people doomed to have no future. Who was Adolph Hitler? What was Nazism? What was the WWII the result of? Ignoring what the 25th of April means, means no lesson was learnt. Without that, can a people be considered as really free? Apparently the Liberation day was there for Italy, not for the Italians.
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It could seem a joke, but it is not. Italians don't know they had a liberation day. Maybe they simply don't remember, but what is worst between ignorance and amnesia? In every case there no is self-consciousness, and that's something not good. Having no memories means deny the and history. If there is nothing to be remembered, then nothing happened. In the occasion of the celebration of the latest Liberation Day, some journalists went up and down Italy to ask new generations which anniversary marks the 25th of April. The outcome was embarrassing. Of course we can imagine a lot of answers were cut in order to give the idea of general environment. There are still those know what Nazi-fascism was, but the reportage has shown a lot of people admitting to don't know the answer. It sounded weird listening to a young man saying «there's nothing to celebrate since I didn't want to be freed», because at that time he wasn't born yet. Despite the political ideas, Italians are a people with no memory and a people with no memory is a people doomed to have no future. Who was Adolph Hitler? What was Nazism? What was the WWII the result of? Ignoring what the 25th of April means, means no lesson was learnt. Without that, can a people be considered as really free? Apparently the Liberation day was there for Italy, not for the Italians.
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