#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, anarres info: ALPINE. STATE REVISIONISM (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The inscription "No to all armies!" it appeared last night on the base of the

monument to the alpine troops in the rock garden area of the Valentino park. ----
January 26th is the "National Day dedicated to the memory and sacrifice of the
Alpine troops". Established in May 2022, it will be celebrated every year "in
memory of the heroism shown by the army corps in the battle of Nikolajewka on
January 26, 1943", during the Second World War. The all too explicit intention is
to celebrate the adventure of ARMIR, the Italian expeditionary force sent to
Russia by Mussolini to support Nazi Germany's aggression against the Soviet Union.
On January 26, one day before the day of remembrance, which commemorates the
extermination of European Jews and Roma in Nazi camps and the racial laws in
Italy during the dictatorship, the war wanted by the fascist government and the
patriotic values that justified it are celebrated .
A real state revisionism.
This celebration, which puts national interest and patriotic rhetoric back at the
center as a founding element of modern-day militarism, produces an excess of
memory to the detriment of history.
On January 26, 1943, Italian and German troops had already lost the war on the
Russian front. The Alpini sent to the frozen plain were completely surrounded by
Soviet troops. The Battle of Nikolajewka served to secure an escape route for the
soldiers. A disastrous escape, in the heart of the Russian winter, in which many
poor souls sent to the front for the Duce and the King died.
Human pity for those proletarians sent to slaughter, a sentiment shared by many
in our country, cannot and must not be translated into patriotic exaltation of an
invasion war alongside the Nazis.

Today in those same lands a very tough war is being fought between the
imperialisms of today, between the Ukrainian army, actively supported by NATO,
and the Russian bloc. Once again, the losers are the poor who have no way out,
who suffer from bombs, military occupation, the endless violence that every war
permits and justifies. The framework is always the same, that of opposing
nationalisms, supposed clashes of civilizations, but the real game is that of the
control of resources and territories, for the interests of those who get rich on
the lives of the oppressed and exploited.

Fascist-led Italy is at the forefront. In less than a year, the number of Italian
soldiers deployed in Eastern Europe on the borders with Ukraine, Russia and
Belarus has increased fivefold. Out of the 7,000 personnel currently employed in
international missions, almost 1,500 operate within NATO in the "containment" of
the Russian armed forces. Starting from 2014, the Atlantic Alliance has given
rise to a war escalation on the eastern flank as never before in its history. In
the Baltic Republics, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, large land, air and
naval installations have been built, the most advanced warfare technologies have
been transferred, global conflict strategies of the 21st century have been tested
with the use of drones and fully automated, cyber-spatial and nuclear weapons.

In Italy there are bases from which drones used in espionage missions depart,
from these same bases, if there were an expansion of the conflict, drones and
bombers armed with nuclear devices can depart.

The head of the Piedmont Aerospace District is now the Minister of Defence. A
fascist closely linked to the Italian arms industry, ready to build the City of
Aerospace in Turin, a new research and design center for increasingly
sophisticated war devices, with the direct involvement of the Polytechnic which
will have its own space inside of the new city of weapons. Weapons that are
already used in conflicts across the world.

A direct involvement of Italian troops in the war in Ukraine is possible. Without
forgetting the 40 military missions abroad in which Italian soldiers are employed.

The Alpini have been and are today in the front row of the wars in which Italy
has participated in recent years. Six months abroad and six months in the
military control of the cities - operation "safe streets" - or in the militarized
construction sites of Valsusa.

The circle closes. A fascist battle to celebrate Mussolini's war and to relaunch
Italy's new imperialist adventures.

January 26 should be a day of mourning. Mourning for the millions of civilians
who died in that war that bloodied Europe. Mourning because, from the ashes of
fascism, a government inspired by that era resurrects the patriotic rhetoric, the
war of conquest, the horrors of colonialism.
Let's stop them before it's too late.

https://www.anarresinfo.org/alpini-revisionismo-di-stato/
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