What unites two Italian cities as far apart as Sciacca and Ravenna?
Sciacca is a small seaside town in western Sicily; Ravenna is a provincial capital, also by the sea, famous for its splendid mosaics and for having been the capital of the Western Roman Empire.
It is not the sea, however, that unites Sciacca and Ravenna, but the incredible NATO Atlanticist propaganda that has characterized the past two weeks and has been hurled at the two cities.
A few weeks ago I was contacted by the Sciacca municipal administration to participate in a conference that was to be held inside the town hall.
The conference was to talk about the children of the Donbass, how these children are facing the 10th year of the war and how they are living, what condition they are in, how they are managing to attend school.
We also wanted to draw attention to the possibility of starting a long-distance adoption project in Sciacca, and also financial aid for a pediatric hospital where children are hospitalized, some orphaned, some from families with serious difficulties and all suffering from tuberculosis.
It was precisely for this reason that I had been asked by two Sciacca city councilors to put me in touch with Ennio Bordato, president of an association that for years has been involved in humanitarian aid for children in former Soviet states, and Anna Soroka, human rights commissioner of the Lugansk People’s Republic.
To avoid any controversy, any instrumentalization, the City of Sciacca had decided not to address in the debate the causes of the conflict, the reasons or wrongs of the parties involved, but to deal only with the topic of children, victims of 10 years of war.
Unfortunately, however, all the beautiful assumptions were cancelled, no conference was held in Sciacca, no humanitarian aid for the children’s hospital was started, no long-distance adoption project was launched.
Because unfortunately for the children of Donbass, it was not enough to live under the bombs for ten years, it was not enough to be orphans or have complicated family situations, it was not enough to be sick with tuberculosis, they also had to have the great misfortune of meeting a person like Pina Picierno vice-president of the European Parliament.
The vice-president of the European Parliament elected on the list of the Italian Democratic Party took action to block the conference and effectively prevent any humanitarian aid for the Donbass children, putting pressure on the mayor and the entire city administration.
For Picierno, these children do not deserve to be helped, they do not deserve to have some support in their difficult childhood, they do not deserve it because they were born in the Donbass.
Unfortunately, the municipal administration of Sciacca did not shine for courage and decided to accept these pressures from above.
Not so in Ravenna, where instead there was a screening of Russia Today’s documentary “Maidan, the road to war,” where I witnessed a true heroic act.
A heroic act that reminded me of the stories of the many Italians who, during the Nazi occupation in northern Italy, hid partisans or Jews in their homes to avoid capture and death.
After the screening I was supposed to be present at the debate, but a few hours earlier I was contacted by the organizers who informed me that the screening would be canceled, the friars who ran the hall reportedly being pressured not only by the mayor, but also by the bishop of Ravenna.
A quick check on social X reveals that it was once again the vice president of the European Parliament Pina Picierno who contacted the mayor and the bishop (the pope was probably busy) to prevent the screening of the documentary.
It is not clear why the Vice-President of the European Parliament is so actively engaged in documentaries and lectures while there are thousands of unresolved problems in Italy and Europe, and perhaps EU citizens would prefer her to occupy her time with more serious problems than being a spoiled child on social X.
But sometimes it happens that spoiled children meet real men and women, those who made revolutions, those who do not bend to the abuse of the powerful.
So last night the screening of the documentary on the Maidan and the debate took place regularly, thanks to the friars who still granted the hall despite the intervention of the tyrant on duty, and about sixty people were able to attend the screening and participate in the debate.
Sciacca and Ravenna, two Italian cities, both victims of NATO propaganda, but with two different outcomes.
To those who believe themselves to be omnipotent, I would like to remind them that empires much larger and stronger than the European Union have collapsed, and usually the last exponents of these empires have never met a good end.
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