Piazza Gramsci in Sestu? It will be called "Ex-Combatants' Square." The intentions of the municipality, led by Paola Secci, were announced by the Democratic Party group leader Michela Mura, who spoke of "the worst right, the cosmic void that seeks to erase and overwrite history and, in the meantime, leaves behind, after 11 years, a city in a state of chaos."
The hypothesis is that the dedication to the Sardinian thinker, father of the Italian PCI, who died following the imprisonment he suffered at the behest of Benito Mussolini, will be eliminated .
"After spending a year on simple renovations and inexplicably keeping Piazza Gramsci closed, they've now announced its inauguration and name change," Mura attacks, "juxtaposing an illustrious exponent of Italian culture, recognized worldwide, with the affection for a building demolished to make way for the new, currently invisible, theater."
There is no reason to change the name of the square, according to the opposition figure, "and if one rightly wants to leave a mark on what was once the headquarters of the 'former combatants,' there are other ways to do it, certainly not by erasing and obscuring the history of the square."
The memory of the people of Sestu is being violated, and this tradition is being violated in the name of which "former combatants"?, the councilor asks, "those who were deprived of the space they once had, and to whom this name is being sought as a token of appreciation? This is a slap in the face to all of Sestu."
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
