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Mini lezione di storia a uso dei miserabili 1/7
La Storia racconta: una nonnina italiana, di nome Lucia #Apicella, nata #Pisapia, nel 1951 è stata insignita della più alta onoreficenza della Repubblica Federale Tedesca, la Gran Croce dell'Ordine al Merito di Germania. Perché?
Mini lezione di storia a uso dei miserabili 2/7
Perché "Mamma Lucia", a seguito di un sogno e per le sue convinzioni religiose e umane, fra l'autunno del 1943 e il 1944 disseppellì e raccolse dal campo di battaglia ben 700 corpi di soldati tedeschi caduti durante l'avanzata...
Mini lezione di storia a uso dei miserabili 3/7
angloamericana verso Napoli e Salerno a Cava dei Tirreni. A chi la rimproverava, mentre rischiava di saltare in aria per gli ordigni e le mine inesplose sul posto, dicendole che stava onorando degli invasori nazisti, o poteva...
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I am today launching a small twitter initiative, the Campaign Against Nonsense about Italy (#CANI). I’ll be tweeting data and arguments for countering myths about Italy’s state and economy. In this thread, I’ll explain why I think this is necessary /1
The way journalists, politicians and economists write and talk about Italy and Southern Europe is often distorted – especially in the “frugal” public sphere. Italy is not the basket case of the popular narrative. The way we speak about stuff matters a lot for policy debates. /2
This was apparent in earlier stages of the COVID crisis, when “frugal” leaders used distorted pictures of Southern Europe to size down the grants in the EU recovery fund. If only Italy were willing to reform along "frugal" lines, things would be splendid! /3
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