April 25, the story of the partisan Malerba: "Unforgettable day"
2020-04-25T16:53:22.751Z
"It is an important holiday, it is a historic day for Italy, it has made Italy free and democratic and has given it peace, freedom, culture, well-being and human rights". The 98-year-old partisan Pasquale Brancatisano, battle name "Malerba", comments from Samos, a small town in the province of Reggio Calabria, the Liberation Day. It is the partisan who received the phone call from the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, on April 1, who wanted to thank him for the words of esteem for the President of the Republic expressed by the elderly ex-fighter in a video that arrived unexpectedly. up to the Quirinale. Now the last "battle" of Brancatisano is that in the Langhe, in Piedmont, where he fought, a monument will be built in memory of the Resistance: "I was in the Langhe, I know them point by point, we shot them several times. I would like that they made a monument for the new generations, who know who the partisans were and what they did for Italy ". In the North there is a companion still alive, the commander of the Garibaldi brigade, Lorenzo Fenoglio, 97 years old. The two met and thanks to family members in the next few hours they will be put in touch by phone. Many memories to share, including April 25 and May 1, 1945, still well etched in Brancatisano's memory: "On the first Sunday of May 1945 in Corso Centrale in Turin we paraded one hundred thousand men and citizens threw flowers and clapped their hands and shouting aloud "long live the partisans" and "long live free Italy".
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April 25, 2020 "It is an important holiday, it is a historic day for Italy, it has made Italy free and democratic and has given it peace, freedom, culture, well-being and human rights". The 98-year-old partisan Pasquale Brancatisano, battle name "Malerba", comments from Samos, a small town in the province of Reggio Calabria, the Liberation Day. It is the partisan who received the phone call from the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, on April 1, who wanted to thank him for the words of esteem for the President of the Republic expressed by the elderly ex-fighter in a video that arrived unexpectedly. up to the Quirinale. Now the last "battle" of Brancatisano is that in the Langhe, in Piedmont, where he fought, a monument will be built in memory of the Resistance: "I was in the Langhe, I know them point by point, we shot them several times. I would like that they made a monument for the new generations, who know who the partisans were and what they did for Italy ". In the North there is a companion still alive, the commander of the Garibaldi brigade, Lorenzo Fenoglio, 97 years old. The two met and thanks to family members in the next few hours they will be put in touch by phone. Many memories to share, including April 25 and May 1, 1945, still well etched in Brancatisano's memory: "On the first Sunday of May 1945 in Corso Centrale in Turin we paraded one hundred thousand men and citizens threw flowers and clapped their hands and shouting aloud "long live the partisans" and "long live free Italy".
