The ashes of Italian Resistance partisan Gino Donè Paro, the only European to sail on the Granma with Fidel Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara & their comrades were deposited in the Pantheon of Veterans of Havana's Colon Cemetery. Video (edited): @PrensaLatina_cu
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#3dicembre > Gino Donè was born into a very poor family on May 18, 1924 in San Biagio di Callalta, near Treviso, Italy.
He completed his studies & in 1942, as he turned 18, he received the call to arms in Mussolini’s armed forces. However, after the armistice with the Allies >
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#FascistCrimes — #Otd in 1944, in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, the Nazis and their fascist collaborators tricked 31 young #partisans into surrender and murdered them, leaving their bodies to hang from the trees lining the town's main boulevard>
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for 4 days. What led to this massacre? The ranks of the partisans had swelled considerably in the summer of 1944. Many young men "took to the mountains" also to escape the Fascist draft and war, and execution if >
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#Brescia — 17 maggio 1944. Girano le prime informazioni sul gruppo di #fascisti che diventerà uno dei più temuti e odiati: la cosiddetta Banda Marta. È una formazione irregolare e perfettamente armata, i cui membri sostengono di essere partigiani ansiosi > #Resistenza #thread 1/9 > di collegarsi con i loro compagni. Questa forma raffinata di antiguerriglia, diretta dai nazisti, alterna i furti alle violenze: rubati muli e vitelli, svaligiati negozi, saccheggiate le abitazioni. I derubati si rivolgono alla Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana, che >
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