Mattarella, "Foibe synonymous with the concealment of history". Meloni, "Remembering is a duty"

“Too long ‘foiba’ and ‘info’ were synonymous with the concealment of history. The memory of the victims must be preserved and honored. Of course – after so many decades and in deeply changed historical and political conditions – it would lose its authentic value if it was enslaved to the resumption of divisions or grudges “. Palazzo del Quirinale. From the documentary “route 230 – Return to the land of the Fathers” followed by the contributions of Egea Haffner and Giulio Marongiu, exiles of Pula.

Recall the sinkholes, for the head of state, “not to forget, nor to claim, but to draw from the errors and suffering of the past the further push for a common path. Because diversity do not divide, but they become wealth if you collaborate And we think, together, with a view to the common future “. “In the areas of the Eastern border, after the fascist oppression, responsible for a hard secretly segregationist policy towards the Slavic populations, and the barbaric Nazi occupation, the communist dictatorship of Tito was established, inaugurating a ruthless season of violence against Italians residing in Those zones. And no squalid provocation can reduce memory and hard condemnation “.

“Remembering means ‘bringing back to the heart’, that is, bringing back what is dearest to us to the center of us. We today ‘report to the heart’ hundreds of thousands of stories, and we return them the dignity they deserve,” said the Prime Minister , Giorgia Meloni. “Today – remarked the Premier – we honor the memory of the martyrs of the sinkholes and return to embrace all our compatriots who decided to abandon everything in order not to give up their identity. Italian twice, by birth and by choice. On this day, we bring to the heart every single story of that tragedy and renew a solemn promise. We will continue to write new pages and to tell the younger generations what happened to the Fiumans, Istrians and Dalmatians. Because their history is not a story that belongs to a portion of the border or what remains of the communities of the exiles, but is the heritage of the whole nation. It is a story – underlined the premier – who defeated the conspiracy of silence and that No denial or justificationist attempt will ever be able to hide or cancel again. “