“Democracy and freedom are nourished by a sense of community”

by time news

Time.news – On August 12, 77 years ago, the SS soldiers carried out a massacre of defenseless civilians in the hamlets of Stazzema, one of the most frightening of the entire war. Hundreds and hundreds were the dead. Children murdered together with their mothers and grandparents“. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, reminds us in a statement.

“Stazzema – continues the Head of State – was considered a refuge for the weakest, for the displaced. Instead, it became a bloody land, the scene of atrocious cruelty and a ferocious contempt for human life, up to the destruction of the burning of victims in the square of Sant’Anna “.

“So much horror can never be forgotten. It is inscribed in the witness that the more mature generations hand over to young people. In so much pain, in this abyss of inhumanity – he continues – the roots of the freedom regained lie in our country and in Europe. The Republic was born precisely in the repudiation of the culture of death, of the will to power pushed to the point of becoming an ideology of annihilation. Europe that has become a community is the peaceful and far-sighted response to that nationalism that has generated so many conflicts in our continent “.

“The Republic today bows before the Stazzema shrine. A profound feeling – he continues – unites the Italians to the families of the victims of the massacre and to the valiant survivors who have borne the burden of such great pain all their lives, continuing to spend themselves to make known, to remember, to transmit, with the strength of their testimony, the simplest and most powerful message: never again“.

“The redemption from oppression and from so much suffering was possible thanks to the spirit of solidarity and justice, to the respect for inviolable rights, which our people knew how to make prevail. Democracy and freedom now require to be continuously nourished by civil values ​​and by sense of community, also for this reason – concludes Mattarella – lin memory of the most dramatic moments it remains a precious heritage also to face the challenges of the new times and the necessary innovations “.

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