Partisan Resistance in Italy

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In this video, friend of the channel Deviant Ollam gives us an on site history lesson regarding the Italian Resistance. This movement was opposed not only to Fascism, but Communism and the Monarchy as well. They were particularly successful in Parma, holding out longer than any other location, but ultimately fell not to bullets or bombs - but to propaganda.

[Jack]

Resistance Memorials here in Chiavari (Genoa) depicts fighters armed with sten guns as well. In Italian pop culture the sten was the iconic Partigiani firearm (plenty dropped, coveted due to being a full auto weapon, compact and easy to disassemble and conceal)

[gianlucamalvasi]

My grandpa was a partisan, after deserting the army e joined his fellow steel-mill coworkers on the mountains near Genoa, fought from 1944 to 1945. I have a few pics of him with a Sten and some with a UD42, which he called "Marlin".
Proud to live today in Sestri Ponente, a working-class neighborhood where tanks and ships in were built during the war, where the Anarchists rose up against mussolini at the same time as the Oltretorrente in Parma.
Super glad to see careful work done about the origin of the Italian Rasistance, which is often overlooked.
Keep up the good work guys

[jameshealy]

Thanks Deviant! I know there's a part of the audience who hates it but I love the diversity of guest presenters Karl works with, from many voices we gain more balanced knowledge.

[AM-yrrz]

As an Italian follower of inRange I'm really grateful for your focus and interest in the italian resistance, which helped to shape, militarly and morally, alongside the allies, the democratic country in which I'm thankful to live.

[walterriblethegreat]

This is great work! Thank you for doing the research, finding the right person to interview, and reminding us that the world is complicated. History is interesting because it's so messy, but we can forget that we're living through messy history right now. We stuff people into boxes because of one belief and those boxes get smaller and smaller. Nobody fits these boxes perfectly.

[gnarshread]

This was exellent!
My step grandfather was SAS and worked with the italin partisans. He didn't talk much about what he did but he did say that most of the work was communication and organizing supply drops to different groups. Unfortunately, certain groups didn't get along with others and would attack each other with the arms that was just dropped to them. So air drops and allocation of supplies had to be carefully organized so one didn't wipe out the other instead of fighting the real enemy, which did actually happen.

[tidge]

My Italian friend says that somehow everyone's granddad was a partisan, nobody's granddad was a fascii. It's amazing really. 😉

[Maulo]

As an italian, it always bring a tear to my eyes when i see people from around the world intrested in the real, difficult history of modern italy

[jwv]

Excellent video I love when you all do this kind of content. Thanks again guys!

[chemistryofquestionablequa]

Partisan weapons are still being found in Italy today. Backyard Ballistics has a video on restoring one of two sten guns that were found along with ammo during a home renovation. The ammo still worked mostly too!

[pietrodemurtas]

Just to point out, resisteence in Parma, particolarly Arditi del Popolo in Oltretorrente were commies and anarchists, many of them after the march on Rome went to soviet union and fought with the CNT-FAI in spansih civil war.

[mrminiguns]

Listening to you speak with Italian pronunciations in english was a lot of fun. Great video Dev

[castielsisko]

You earned a patron. You seem to have an understanding that you can lead a horse to water but you can't force it to drink however if you lead it to a cleaner source of water it's a lot more likely to take a sip. The service this channel provides is priceless. I can't thank inrangetv enough. Knowledge is the ultimate power in this world.

[brainyskeletonofdoom]

I think that the Italian partisans role in Italy is usually either downplayed or exaggerated. It was a very complex phenomenon, which is really worth to be read about and expanded!

[antonioadinolfi]

This was truly excellent.
Informative, well researched and well explained.
Thank you InRange.

[lorenzorigoni]

Living close to Parma you depicted the strong antifascist feeling that we still have to this day, all you said was perfectly on point. Had the honor to meet a 98 year old partisan who fought in the plains around Parma in ww2, he was shot two times with a machine-gun while fighting, one in the neck and one in the torso, and told me he was one of the lucky few that survived, given the difficulty of fighting in a plain battlefield with no natural cover (unlike the mountains where most partisans were). His group was called SAP (Squadre d'Azione Patriottica).

[knight_lautrec_of_carim]

please tell me you met up with the highly underrated gun channel called Backyard Ballistics

[sirherrbatka]

Thanks to this channel and every patron for bringing such content!

[ShizumaKusanagi]

Loved the message about self reflection at the end. Need more of that these days.

[matkahenkilo]

Something I did not know, and propably would not have learned about without this. Also the lesson to take home from this was great and delivered without preachiness (I hope that is a word...). You truly have deserved your smile! Well done, keep it up!