In this section we would like to be published works that highlight and criticize constructively and in documented way errors and historical partisanship so frequent in the newspapers and in the mass media.
Today's the correct history or chronicle is usually that one written by the 'Big Brother'. So even when it claims to be objective, unfortunately, there's no exception to the inclination to distort the facts in a way that today it is considered 'politically correct', and even when reason and common sense suggest the opposite of what is said.
The reaction to the politically correct history is just as obviously biased, usually exaggerating the nature of things in opposite direction.
Relativism goes crazy with bad language and grammar mistakes, and there are errors of any kind.
If necessary, however, let's not renounce to the historical criticism itself applied to current events in the sense of rational analysis of statements, applied to history matters. We would deepen the events' knowledge and tend to the formation of independent judgments to recognize the truth off from the dust raised by opposing litigants.
I give you an useful example to review the relevance of topics still burning in the history of Italy in the twentieth century, that is, I suggest reading a book by mr. Gianpaolo Pansa. There's an example of objectivity that would be desirable to be used by all, at first me. No coincidence that the Communist gangs objected and violently prevented the presentation of books by this journalist-writer who tries to tell an inconvenient truth.
This is still an uncivilized attitude to be despised, and has no meaning, because no one in the long run can prevent an historical truth to emerge.
BELLA CIAO - history of the partisan struggle in Italy: a typical example of how the 'Big Brother" does turn omelettes into the bedpan |
Every April 25 who's going to the Italy's streets singing "Bella ciao" is REALLY convinced that all the partisans have fought for Italy's freedom. It is a striking image of the Resistance, but it doesn't correspond to the truth. The communists fought, and someone died, for an unacceptable goal to those who really fought for democracy. The fight against Germans and Fascists was only the first act of a revolution destined to found a popular dictatorship, at the orders of the Soviet Union.
The terroristic actions of Gap (groups of partisan action), the murder of partisan leaders hostile to the Communist Party, the cynicism in provoking enemy's reprisals, was considered the necessary step to enlarge the fire of the civil war.
This book 'Bella Ciao!", a mr. Pansa's counter history, reveals the reality and the ruthlessness of a clash entirely within the anti-fascist front. It brings to light events, characters and crimes always ignored.
From my particular point of view, then I don't understand how one can celebrate a 'liberation' that instead has been a dishonorable shameful defeat of his own Country; and furthermore pretending that to beat the Germans instead of the allies' troops there have been the partisans. However we have to forgive the young and less young people who believe it, and even the fewest old dumb ultra-nonagenarians, formerly the youngest partisans, who believe by dint of their own balls.
This is how the classic mosquito sitting on the horse's back, boasting that it was the one pushing the carriage, and a typical example of how is the politically correct today, and how it can be rightly criticized. |