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Places of remembrance: sacrifice, Defense and homeland

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When addressing issues such as the sacrifice of the alpini during World War one must proceed with extreme caution: on one side, not addressing the argument, you are likely to forget their contribution, military and human, in that conflict; on the other, If you overdo it by treating the topic with too much emphasis is likely to expire at a discounted demagogismo. About World War II all has been said and written. Texts were produced, video, Photo, stories; It now has a wide range of information telling us about the incident. Magnifying glass which focuses on this conflict, to try and explain the causes and effects, highlights the great characters of the history of the era (Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, Stalin) and great Nations (Germany, France, United States, Russia and Japan). However, a large focus is likely to tarnish those who, on the field, He fought the war firsthand, in the front row. While not forgetting the atrocities suffered by the prisoners in the concentration camps, millions of men have sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland. Sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland. It's a repetition intentional, Although this sentence with modern eyes is outdated because ancient are words like sacrifice, Defense and homeland. These three concepts associated to our nation are now, in the eyes of us contemporaries, taken for granted: is natural and obvious that our nation does not require the sacrifice of its inhabitants to defend their boundaries in the interest of one's own country. If however today, These concepts are so cheap to pass unnoticed is because someone in the past he had to deal with. Starting from the natural principle that nothing gets you nowhere, then these three concepts sacrifice, Defense and homeland we had to get, win on the battlefield. In the 1940s was not granted for a man leave his family, charging a backpacker and walk on foot along the road to go to war. In Cuneo and province thousands of men have left their land and lent their hands of peasants to the homeland. The reason for this war was often too difficult to understand, and perhaps at that point didn't care even just try to understand the causes of that conflict. The only thing that mattered was return home alive and defend their land. On the first point, the story tells of the dramatic battles and long Siberian retreats, the second our alpini have always responded to this. It becomes increasingly difficult for us, today, understand that sacrifice because, unfortunately, with the passing of the years fail those protagonists who fought that war. There remain however those memorials theaters of clashes, of assaults, of battles, of deaths and prayers. These are places that we should learn to conserve because they represent our past, are testimony to this and a precious heritage for the future.

I extend a special memory at the 4th "Livorno" Infantry Division that between 1940 and the 1943 He fought on the southern side of Stura Valley near Passo Sant'Anna, Step 2156m, Top of Crosillias, in the province of Cuneo. The sacrifice of these men allowed him to maintain a bridgehead between the borders of Italy and France subsequently allowing French troops to break through the enemy lines on the north side, forcing the enemy to flight.

Roberto

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The end of the Prague Spring

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On the night of 20 and the 21 August 1968 the Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia with l’ aim to suppress and destroy the new political course implemented with l’ coming to power of Alexander Dubèek known as the Prague Spring. A political season that brought the change towards a socialism with a human face, a necessity of democratic reforms that don't suit him in Moscow. As already happened in Hungary in 1956 l’ The Soviet Union showed its true face, hard, totalitarian and liberticidal, intransigent towards every change. In code l’ It was called operation Danube and Storm, participated in five countries of the Warsaw Pact: Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and Germany East. L’ The Soviet Union sent the bulk of the troops. All’ Sunrise in the five countries troops marched into Prague, they had l’ intention to free the people of Czechoslovakia, waiting for them instead praguers welcomed them with hostility. In Moscow they were sure of the contrary, the Soviet media demanded reportage dell’ festive welcome that Czechoslovakia would have reserved for saviors. The tone of true hospitality was banned in the Soviet Union. Between the night of 20-21 August and the end of 1968 There were 92 deaths among soldiers of the face of the Warsaw Pact, many of them per incident. Czech side there are a hundred losses, only a small part due to firearms. L’ adventure in Prague for’ The Soviet Union was a defeat from a political point of view. Failed in’ “Enterprise” to repeat what happened in Hungary in 1956. They failed to impose a puppet government tied to Moscow. Dubèek was arrested. Meanwhile a clandestine Congress in a factory confirmed the confidence to Dubèek. The Soviets were forced to release it. The balance of power, however, all’ Interior of the party changed and with months Dubèek was removed from the party itself. The “normalization” from Moscow through his control led the leaders who had promoted the change to be expelled or forced to emigrate elsewhere and Prague Spring ran.

Hector Parker

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Agrippina: mother, female, Empress

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Agrippina was the first woman to govern the Roman Empire. Lived in the first century AD., He held this role when her son Nero was too young to be the performer of a power so immense. Agrippina was descended from a lineage important: He was the grandson of Julius Caesar by the mother and nephew of Mark Antony from his father. The woman was well aware of his lineage, and he used all his life this element in order to gain more and more power and space in Imperial Rome. Become the bride of his uncle Claudius in 49 d.c., He persuaded the man to recognize as heir Nero (born from a previous marriage) instead of the natural son of Emperor, Briton. To ensure the succession, the woman in the 54 d. C. poisoned her husband with a mushroom dish and did applaud the son Nero emperor by the Praetorians. The following year, Elle also killed the son of Claudius, Briton. Despite the efforts of his mother to help Nero in politics, the new emperor resented the intrusion of the woman, at times maddening. For this reason, the relationship between the two went higher incrinandosi: Nero began to lean advisors uncomfortable to mother, as the philosopher Seneca, and dating women cheating on the bride that her mother had found, namely Claudia Octavia. It was the lover and future wife of Emperor, Poppaea Sabina, to instigate Nero to commit matricide. According to the Annales written by Tacitus, Agrippina would try even incest to try to divert attention of the son by her lover and to make the role of Augusta It had gained over the years. However, in 59 d. C. and after you got the word out of treason committed by Agrippina against son, the woman was taken to stab and kill. Agrippina was, in good times and bad, one of the most important female figures of the Roman Empire. His boundless thirst for power has led to a dramatic and tragic end.

Maria

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The role of Princess: Grace Kelly

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Grace Kelly was one of the most beloved princesses despite it being the wife of the ruler of the world's smallest country after the Vatican.

The marriage ceremony was followed by 30 million viewers, This includes all those who have a tv in the 1956. The event contributed to the renewal of the Principality and helped in the design of a new kind of journalism, namely the gossip turned to the masses. It was also the first occasion in which they coined the phrase "wedding of the century".

The choice of Rainier fell on young Grace as one of Prince's intentions was to report internationally on his tiny Kingdom, on the verge of economic failure: he needed a woman of great renown, a real movie star "can bring the splendor of Hollywood in Munich".

When Ranieri laid eyes on Grace, the girl was attending the fashion designer Oleg Cassini; between the two seemed to be harmony and affection, but at some point the woman ended the affair by telling them simply that he would marry the Prince. The 5 January 1956 It was announced the engagement between the two; many saw the marriage as a marriage of interest: Grace wanted a Crown, Ranieri secure its future. Despite the intentions probably lack transparency, the wedding held on 19 April 1956 It was a real stroke of genius and gave visibility to all, especially the Principality itself. The media case however was not limited to the wedding day, but he accompanied throughout his life principles and still the heirs are victims of hunger for gossip and attention by journalists.

As claimed by the former boyfriend Oleg Cassini, the key to the success of Grace was to "[…] never stop playing the role of Princess ": the Kelly a 26 years knew to control their emotions masterfully, He learned French and Protocol of the Royal family. The woman, After giving birth to Caroline, Alberto and Stéphanie, surrendered to the idea that he would never be back on the scenes of his beloved Hitchcock film. Henceforth confined itself to sponsor some events related to the Principality, like the Grand Prix, It would make the mannequin (famous is the bag that bears his name drawn by Hermès).

The 13 September 1982, While Grace and her daughter Stéphanie were returning to Munich, the Princess's car skidded and crashed into a ravine: her mother died the next day due to injuries sustained, While his daughter survived the accident. The funeral of the Princess was a media event even more after the wedding, because, Thanks to the increased spread of television, It is estimated that nearly 100 millions of people around the world have followed the event live.

Grace won the oscar for best actress in 1955, a year before becoming her Serene Highness of Monaco. Talented icon, beauty and elegance, his image and especially its history attract even today, reflecting the fact that some myths are really timeless.

Maria

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A B Cosa nostra

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In relation to the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro and the recent news of the assignment of the escort to Lucia Borsellino writes and reads everything. Often the stories are incorrect, confused or based on simple suppositions of reporters daring ready to create the scoop for a brief moment of Fame. Let's review together the A B C of Cosa nostra, Regulation that is as easy to generate in people trying to interpret the moves all UFO mafia suppositions. Let us begin with the first concept: Salvatore Riina is currently the Chief Executive of the Cosa nostra: as long as he remains alive and will be able to externalize their orders him to command. From recent movies leaked outside, Apart from physical aches due to age, his mind and his tongue still work very well. Concept number two: Matteo Messina Denaro is not the head of Cosa nostra, because being alive Riina, because being a Tan may not hold the control of the Organization. Concept number three, that derives from previous: who is the boss in Palermo boss Cosa nostra. Salvatore Riina was yes a Corleone at the head of his clan, but he had control of the city of Palermo, ERGO was the head of the Organization. Latest concept: basically the Cosa nostra is not acting (kills) people to throw supposed messages in order to make others understand that perhaps if they kill a guy so then others understand that. No, COSA nostra kills people accurate and excellent murders committed leave no room at any assumptions. Who offers as an example the murder of Salvo Lima as murder to mean something to others, I answer that Lima had screwed up in the first person in respect of the Organization turning their backs in that Nebula selva characters colluded with the Organization and included in your organization. We come now to the doubts which may affect your organization. Doubt number one: Matteo Messina Denaro has received clear signals from Salvatore Riina on who should be deleted, also in this case the Riina does not recommend or suggest, though he orders and he assumed that his orders are not cashed, Note that the shaking particularly. Conduct outside the Organization quietly, without drawing the spotlight on the Organization was the standard used by Cosa nostra (especially by Money) in recent years. Business is not with the murders, but with the entrance into the society of directors by recycling within them the dirty money, investing and getting profits. Especially in these times of crisis, If you have cash easily and instantly is the Investable mafia. Make an excellent murder, ES judge Nino di Matteo, or Lucia Borsellino, It would mean a spotlight of media around the world about the Organization. This would recreate the same situation of 1992 where the State's response to the massacre of Capaci and Via d'amelio could not be that of the capture of capo dei capi, Salvatore Riina. On this still many doubts must be dispelled. Matteo Messina Denaro is prepared to risk so much and especially at a time when the State is making scorched earth around it? Certain, as they assume even eminent scholars of the mafia other boss, clan, could compiere l'attentato vindicating then a power and a prominence within the Organization. In recent years, COSA nostra has learned a lot from the ndrangheta where excellent killings can be counted on your fingers, but where his power also and especially internationally remains strong, much stronger than the Sicilian one.

Roberto

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