The ditch between Ferrara and Molinari on the Fosse Ardeatine
Difference of views between Ferrara and the Republic of Molinari on the controversy relating to Meloni's sentence on the Fosse Ardeatine
To the Republic which belonged to Eugenio Scalfari and is now directed by a historical republican like Maurizio Molinari – brought up in the now defunct homonymous party which belonged to Ugo La Malfa and Giovanni Spadolini – they must have thought from the outset, with that title of last Saturday on the entire front page against a Meloni who "rewrites history", of having to conduct a special operation – as Putin calls the one undertaken against Ukraine – to denazify, defascistise and so on the Italy of the first declared right-wing prime minister indeed declared. Which dared to define as "only Italians" the 335 victims of the Nazi massacre of 79 years ago in the Fosse Ardeatine.
With the appearance of pulling a secret weapon out of its stores, Molinari yesterday published an interview with the no longer young son of Ugo La Malfa, the now over eighty-year-old Giorgio, to nail Meloni to her responsibilities, i.e. to his mistakes. Among which there would be that of having brought the right back to the years of Giorgio Almirante, former head of cabinet of a minister in Mussolini's government of the Social Republic of Salò. Which used to cloak the terminal fascism of the civil war and enslavement to Nazism with patriotism, no longer an alliance. And yet – Giorgio La Malfa recalled – the post-missina right had with Gianfranco Fini the courage, wisdom and more to declare fascism "absolute evil". But he did it when Giorgia Meloni was already part of his party, without making any objections, unlike the Duce's niece, Alessandra Mussolini, and others who had also collaborated with Fini, such as his former spokesperson Francesco Storace. Historically, let's say so, La Malfa ex junior would therefore have no reason to contrast today's Meloni with that of Fini's times with his back turned to fascism. Instead it is precisely on "Meloni as Almirante" that Giorgio La Malfa's interview has earned the title of Repubblica , with the addition that "behind the Italian spirit hides the history" of Italian democracy which since 1945 owes everything and only to anti-fascism, as current today as it was then.
I will repeat to my friend Giorgio La Malfa what, without having read it yet in Repubblica , practically replied to him yesterday in the Foglio Giuliano Ferrara, quoted by me elsewhere for a different passage of his article drawn from the memories of his own "gappist" family ”. “The Italians at Kappler's disposal, also according to the lists that designated them for martyrdom, were – Ferrara wrote – for the most part anti-fascists, partisans, Jews, but they were killed because the German occupation forces wanted to kill ten Italians for each of the dead of the Bozen battalion hit in an armed action in via Rasella. Literally Italians, Italians to be shot. No anti-fascist candidate for the massacre, and no Jew, and no partisan would have objected to not being Italian”. It is true.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-fosso-fra-ferrara-e-molinari-sulle-fosse-ardeatine/ on Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:00:39 +0000.