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This Thursday Italy commemorated its liberation from Nazi occupation and the end of Mussolini’s regime. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni did so alongside Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the tomb of the unknown soldier.
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This year’s anniversary celebration is marked by the accusation against Italian public television of having censored a monologue by the essayist Antonio Scurati because he criticized the refusal of Giorgia Melonia repudiate fascism and the drift of the far-right government.
In an attempt to put the matter to rest, Meloni posted Scurati’s essay on his own Facebook page.
They accuse RAI of not having broadcast the recording
The monologue, which was supposed to have been broadcast as part of RAI’s Liberation Day commemorations, recounted well-known incidents: the assassination, on June 10, 1924, by Benito Mussolini’s hitmen, of the socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti frontally opposed to fascism, as well as the 1944 massacres of Italian civilians during the Nazi occupation.
Scurati’s text assures that “fascism was throughout its historical existence, and not only at the end or occasionally, an irredeemable phenomenon of systematic, murderous political violence fueled by massacres.”
Additional sources • Enrique Barrueco (Voice-over)
