His recent controversies on military aid do not surprise those who have always known him had said similar even when, a member of the Milanese Communist Party, the oppressors were the Americans and the Soviet Union supplied the weapons.
The general public met Carlo Smuraglia on the threshold of 99 years, for his controversial stance towards the Anpi, of which he had been president for a long time and was still honorary president, regarding military aid to Ukraine: to oppose the invader with arms is more than legitimate, to help by any means, including arms, whoever resists dutifully, a pacifism that is independent of this basic principle cannot be shared. I don’t know the general public: but who, like me, knew him a lifetime ago, he was not surprised at all. Indeed, she has read those words as a testimony of consistency: the fighting partisan Smuraglia has certainly said many times similar, about so many Resistances and so many wars of liberationwhen, in his eyes as a leading exponent of the left of the Milanese Communist Party, the oppressors were the Americans and to supply the weapons to the oppressors that Soviet Union which even then, even then, did not like even one bit.
This was, in two words, the morality of the partisan, the jurist and the politician (he was a longtime parliamentarian, and then a member of the CSM) who left yesterday. In the name of this morality, as soon as he arrived in Milan, he had been among the lawyers of the Chamber of Labor, had defended workers and former partisans, and had appeared as a civil party in the trial for the facts of Reggio Emilia, where, in July 1960, five demonstrators fell under police fire. And in the name of this same morality he was constituted civil party also in the trial for the death of the anarchist railway worker Pino Pinelli, fell under circumstances never actually clarified from a window on the fourth floor of the Milanese police headquarters in the aftermath of the Piazza Fontana massacre. Many years later they asked him what above all he kept in his memory of the whole affair. He replied: Incredible, the fact that at a certain point in the trial I found myself in the role of defendant, and I remained there for two years, because a lawyer had sued me for slander. The acquaintance of an extraordinary woman like Pinelli’s widow, Licia, is very beautiful. Of comfort, the knowledge of a group of talented journalists, who from the beginning did not take the official reconstructions on the anarchist trail for good: if in the end the truth about the massacre made its way, it is also due to them.
May 31, 2022 (change May 31, 2022 | 14:17)
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