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[Music: Bandiera rossa]
Click on the Fathom speaker to play Bandiera rossa (MP3
Audio
file, 1.6MB; requires QuickTime Player).
Bandiera rossa is a well-known song popularized by the Communist
Party
in Italy. Tullio remembers children in Italy playing in the streets
with a red flag, and singing this song. He also remembers his mother
chiding him for singing it in the house! (Mama was more of a
Socialist.)
The reality is that Tito, communist ruler of Yugoslavia, very much
wanted Trieste to be added to the Yugoslavian territory. The Italians
had no intention of letting that happen.
Children in America in the 1950s played "cowboys and Indians," children
in northeastern Italy played "communists and nationalists."
Avanti, popolo!
Last
updated 2005-12-30. AP.