Resistance and Resistance memory in Italy

Abstract

Resistance against Nazism and fascism (1943-1945) was a time of strong break in the History of Italy, because for the first time the Italians lived experience of mass disobedience against the state and because of that experience came the Italian Republic Constitution. However, resistance development was not equal throughout the national territory and equal participation. To understand the reasons, it is necessary to study a long period that addresses the experiences of the second half of the nineteenth century and the birth of the labor movement and citizens movement. The memory of fascism and the Resistance is not unanimously shared value in Italy. The diversity of historical experiences lived in all regions but not for the country represented the axis around which today can defend democratic values. To the People of Freedom and Silvio Berlusconi, for example, anti-fascism and the resistance are comparable to communism and therefore combat elements. So they propose the need to review periodically the Constitution, as it contains subversive elements that should be eliminated precisely because they are based on the experience of fascism and the Resistance.