#Liberation Day

[calabria-mediterranea]

25 April - Anniversary of Italy's Liberation

25 April also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation is a national holiday in Italy that commemorates the victory of the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic, puppet state of the Nazis and rump state of the fascists, culmination of the liberation of Italy from German occupation and of the Italian civil war in the latter phase of World War II. That is distinct from Republic Day (Festa della Repubblica), which takes place on 2 June and commemorates the 1946 Italian institutional referendum.

Every year on 25 April Italy celebrates Liberation Day, known in Italian as Festa della Liberazione, with a national public holiday.

In addition to the closure of schools, public offices and most shops, the day is marked with parades across the country, organised by ANPI, Italy's partisan association which preserves the memory of the Resistance movement against Fascism.

The occasion is held in commemoration of the end of the Fascist regime and of the Nazi occupation during world war two, as well as the victory of Italy's Resistance movement of partisans who opposed the regime.

Formed in 1943, the partigiani comprised a network of anti-Fascist activists, from diverse backgrounds including workers, farmers, students and intellectuals, across Italy.

Resistance

Together they united in armed resistance against the Nazi occupation and the Fascist regime, making their struggle both a war of liberation and a civil war.

The annual event marks the day in 1945 when a nationwide radio broadcast calling for a popular uprising and general strike against the Nazi occupation and Fascist regime was announced by the National Liberation Committee of Upper Italy (CLNAI), a political umbrella organisation representing the Italian Resistance movement.

This announcement - made by partisan and future president of Italy Sandro Pertini - resulted in the capture and death of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, who was shot three days later.

The Festa della Liberazione represents a significant turning point in Italy's history, paving the way for the referendum of 2 June 1946 when Italians voted in favour of a republic and against the monarchy which had been discredited during the war and whose members went into exile.

Scurati controversy

This year's event takes place against the backdrop of a political controversy after the state broadcaster RAI stopped a well-known Italian writer from delivering an anti-fascist monologue on television a few days before the Festa della Liberazione.

Antonio Scurati accused RAI of censorship after his monologue was dropped abruptly from the Saturday night talkshow Chesarà for "editorial reasons".

The writer claimed that the move highlighted the alleged attempts by premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government to exert its influence over the state broadcaster which has seen several veteran presenters leave over the last year including Fabio Fazio, Bianca Berlinguer and Amadeus.

 In his speech Scurati criticised the "ruling post-Fascist party" for wanting to "re-write history" rather than "repudiate its neo-fascist past".

RAI director Paolo Corsini rejected any talk of censorship, as did Meloni who responded to the controversy by posting Scurati's text on her Facebook page, stating that the broadcaster had "simply refused to pay 1800 euro (the monthly salary of many employees) for a minute of monologue".

Meloni added that the Italian people "can freely judge" the contents of the text which was later read live on air by Chesarà presenter Serena Bortone in an act of solidarity with Scurati.

#italy #italia #25 aprile #25 april #festa della liberazione #liberation day #antifascism #history #world war ii #fascism #nazism #antinazi #partisans #resistence #1945 #italian history #antonio scurati #giorgia meloni #governo meloni #serena bortone #censorship #storia italiana

[mirkobloom77]

‼️🇵🇸🇮🇹 Photos: Pro-Palestine activists join in as Italy marks liberation from Nazi occupation

🔸 Source: Al Jazeera (main post), Claudia Greco and Yara nardi (pictures)

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #palestine news #info #jerusalem #tel aviv #italia #liberation day #milan #rome

[frc-ambaradan]

Happy April 25th y'all (italians and not)!

Let's always remember on this day that every people and every nation has not only the right, but the DUTY to stand up against oppression and subjugation and to fight for their identity, their culture, their freedom. Always and everywhere.

W il 25 Aprile!

W l'Italia!

"Contestare a un movimento che voglia liberare il proprio Paese da un’occupazione straniera la legittimità del ricorso alle armi significa andare contro le leggi della storia." Bettino Craxi

("To  challenge the legitimacy of armed fight to a movement who wants to free its Country from foreign occupation is to challenge the laws of History".)

#25th april #liberation day #25 aprile #festa della liberatione #italian national holidays #italy #resistance #resistance movements #world war 2 #resistenza #(gli italiani comprenderanno che sono politicamente stravagante XD)

[barbieaemond]

O partigiano…

Portami viaaaaa che mi sento di morir

#asks #liberation day #bella ciao is my national anthem sorry goffredo

[poetry-lair]

Hi everyone!!

Today is a special day in Italy, the Liberation’s Day (Festa della Liberazione that it celebrates the 25th April and we honored and commemorate the liberation of Italy from the fascism and nazism’s tyranny, and the people who fought for freedom, like the resistance of partisans.

In these days is very important to remind the important of freedom and fight for what is right, in peculiar for the people who sacrifice their lives for that, especially for awful censorship, made by the Italian national television networks, of the author Antonio Scurati’s monologue, which denounced the terrible crimes of fascism, their silence and their complicity of nazism’s atrocities, that unfortunately they still justified by neofascists.

For this reason, I wanted to share with you this literary suggestion I’ve made, which talk about the experience of resistance by different point of view, or based from true events linked by the Liberation of Italy.

If you want to know more about it or share a thought,

You can write in the comment sections:

Have a nice day!!

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[desertsquiet]

Happy 25 Aprile (Liberation Day in Italy) <333

#this is my song of the summer #woody guthrie #journal songs #25 aprile #liberation day

[rottnstrwberriez]

forgot to do this earlier but HAPPY LIBERATION DAY ITALIANS

BUONA FESTA DELLA LIBERAZIONE!

che bello essere nato e cresciuto antifascista :3

spero che altri italiani vedano sto post pk ci tengo 🥹

#giornata della liberazione #liberation day #25/04 #04/25 #italian liberation day #liberazione #antifascist

[blackcat-brazil]

Hoje é um dia muito especial para o antifascismo.

Os partisans capturaram e executaram Benito Mussolini e sua amante, pendurando-os de cabeça para baixo na Piazzale Loreto de Milão, encerrando mais de 20 anos de fascismo. 38 anos depois, na mesma data, um glorioso 25 de abril tornou-se também o símbolo da luta antifascista em Portugal.

O fascismo está fadado a ser o lado perdedor. A lata de lixo da história é o seu lugar. 🏴🚩✊

#antifa #161 #antifascism #revolução dos cravos #carnation revolution #dia da libertação da itália #liberation day #antifascismo #história do antifascismo #antifascism history

[that-weirdmango2]

“April 25th , Liberation Day, a very significant anniversary in our history because it commemorates the liberation of Italy from Nazi-fascism.”

#25 aprile #25th april #liberation day #italy #italian #bella ciao #Youtube

[milla984]

(source)

#25 aprile #festa della liberazione #antifascismo #w l'italia antifascista #liberation day #italy's liberation day

[spockvarietyhour]

V: The Series "Liberation Day"

#V #V TV #V The Series #V 1984 #Liberation Day #OSD #Graphics #Television #CRT TV #Cathode Ray Tube #1980s #scifiedit #vedit #GIF #my gifs #Danny watches V The Series #Hide and Queue

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

#USA1997 #INTERACTIVE MAGIC #MICOMEQ #STRATEGY #IBM #FALLEN HAVEN LIBERATION DAY #LIBERATION DAY

[frc-ambaradan]

Today, 25th April, Italy celebrates Liberation Day when we commemorate the victory of the Italian Resistance movement against Nazi-fascists.

25th April 1945: the Resistance fighters' triumphant entry in newly freed Milan.

Let this be a reminder to everyone that every man and every nation has the right and the duty to stand up for their ideals, their freedom and their identity.

Resistance movements were born all around Europe: in France, Germany, Poland, Greece... they planted the seeds for a unified Europe in the name of peace, freedom and democracy. Ideals who are shared among all the people. And let me spend a word to remember all the Czechoslovakian and Russian soldiers who joined their arms with italian partisans and fought side by side with them in the name of these common ideals.

The values of the Resistance, today, must translate into cooperativeness and respect for the other's identity and political ideas. Those who come from a partisan family and those who come from a fascist family can and must work together for the greater good of the Country. Nations with diametrically opposite governments can and must work together for Europe's greater good. I know we can do it. We're doing it. We need to keep it going.

This comes from someone whose great uncle's name is engraved in stone along so many others who gave their life for our freedom. Never give up!

W il 25 Aprile!

W l'Italia!

W la libertà!

#25 aprile #resistenza #anniversario della liberazione #liberation day #resistance movements #world war 2 #europe #italy #remember #italian national holidays

[veiligplekje]

Allied forces liberate the Netherlands, from September 1944 until May 1945 

#grandmas story of the canadians bringing candy&chocolate and how they all got so sick from them cos they barely survived the hunger winter #bevrijdingsdag #dodenherdenking #liberation day #remembrance of the dead #The Netherlands #remembrance day #world war 2 #ww2 #dutch costume #traditional costume #folk clothing #holland #dutch culture #allied forces #5 mei #volendam #marken #axel #land van axel

[dynamobooks]

George Saunders: Liberation Day: Stories (2022)

#george saunders #liberation day #literature #the new yorker #theme park #science fiction #dystopia #authoritarianism #brainwashing

[brumaire18]

April 25 types

April 25 in Italy is a national holiday: celebrating the Liberation from Nazi-Fascism and the Resistance. All over the country there are demonstrations, concerts and initiatives of all kinds, institutional and antagonistic.

They are usually preceded by very harsh political controversies because right-wing parties have always been trying to redefine the content of this celebration, which for a long time was the symbol of the left.

They have always tried to change its meaning, from a holiday celebrating partisans and their will to change the world to a national celebration, generic and emptied of its most important meanings.

So this year, with Giorgia Meloni's post-fascists in government in the country, it was a special April 25. The leftist newspaper “il Manifesto” called together all the people of the left to go to Milan and participate in the parade, to say no to the authoritarian right.

A call that came 30 years after the same newspaper, after Silvio Berlusconi's election victory, called a huge demonstration, also in Milan, to protest against the ruling right wing.

Moreover, this year April 25 fell in the midst of the Israeli butchery in Gaza: the colors of the Palestinian flag became those of Liberation Day. If you want to be partisan, you must always be on the side of the oppressed.

It was a beautiful demonstration, full of color, slogans and music. As many as 100,000 people participated in Milan.

What I have collected here are the photographs I took during the procession, portraits of beautiful people, interesting faces full of the will to live and to fight.

Quite by chance on my camera was found the same lens that I had used 30 years ago to take photographs at the procession in Milan in which I participated: it was an old Helios 44 that I had bought together with my first camera, a Russian Zenith taken on a street corner in Bologna.

#italy #photographers on tumblr #streetphotography #protest #25 aprile #liberation day #palestine