Incipit
Inizia qui una avventura che ha il sapore del Passato ma saldamente ancorata al presente, con le storie di chi c'era e le emozioni di chi non sapeva e ha improvvisamente acceso una luce su di un fatto storico quasi dimenticato.
Vi parlo della Battaglia di Nikolajewka, Gennaio 1943 e del suo Monumento Nazionale, il primo in Italia, che vedrĂ la luce il 24 Maggio del 2009 in un grande e rigoglioso giardino tra Via Foscolo e Via Mazzini a Soave, in provincia di Verona.
Dei duecentoventicinquemila soldati italiani impegnati nella Campagna di Russia, tornarono in pochi e nel villaggio di Nikolajewka, tra il Don e il Donez, durante una tragica ritirata nella steppa, the soldiers threw the last desperate cry of pain, through a railway underpass became obligatory passage bucarono enemy forces and gained their freedom.
Enemy recognized the honor of that one victory to the Italians but what mattered most of all was that he could finally go home.
the history books, you can never read about this episode.
I have learned in a winter afternoon, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of this monument to a terrible page of European History and Italian.
to Veterans First, the Fathers of this project and the people who were the ', I proposed to give visibility to what I can, to this poignant and worthy idea.
not to talk about war strategies, who is right and who's not.
But to continue to give life to what happened, not to break the thread.
I would like to add something every day, thanks to the contribution of those who want to participate in this diary.
will be tracking along the path, step by step that will take us up to where the garden is being built a new tunnel Nikolajewka, thanks to the work of many men and women sensitive.
They understood the value of a memory for those driven by who knows what reasons, have given their lives for someone like me, like us, like many, came much later and needs to know.
I, who are in front of the new history of that time, remain stunned by the intention of this symbol on the ground soavese:
"... and will forever be remembered together, bound in brotherhood in eternal peace, the fallen fighters of all the homelands in the countryside of Russia."
There are just wars.
There is respect for winners and losers, united by the desire of the conquest of Peace.
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