(ANSA) – PESARO, MARCH 13 – “I tell the Ukrainian boys who are fighting to surrender. Only if they are saved, will they be able to save humanity”: this is what Maffeo Marinelli, 97, one of the last partisans of ‘Italy.
Words, spoken on the phone from his home in Pesaro, which bring with them the concern of an expansion of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. “I know what it means to be at war, but there is no territory worth killing or dying for,” he says. He is asked about Vladimir Putin and his mind takes him back to the Fascist period and the Nazis of the Second World War, which saw him among the boys who organized the resistance in the north of the Marche: “I’m sure – he insists – that (Putin, ed) yes it will eliminate by itself.
There will come a time when he himself will get on his knees and ask to be killed. He will not be able to continue living with this burden on him. “” Looking at the sky and seeing the bombs fall is only to be ashamed “, underlines the former partisan who says he is convinced that” behind this war there are above all many economic interests ” . “But I tell the Ukrainians to stop here, stop fighting and step aside, God will take care of your land”, adds Maffeo, always thinking about the end of the Russian dictator. Marinelli is a man of peace and already in other circumstances, remembering the Second World War, he had had the opportunity to say that after so many years he still did not understand “the reason why it was fought.” All the more reason today, it is even more difficult to understand the conflict in progress: “What is Putin in his head we do not know, it is certain that if it continues like this it puts humanity at risk “.” But woe betide – concludes Maffeo – thinking of all going to war. Putin will eliminate himself “. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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