Porzûs massacre

Porzûs massacre

Eight partisans with red handkerchiefs tied around their necks are approaching a dairy in a snowy, mountainous landscape. Other men with green handkerchiefs are scattered in front of the building.

Label reads “221”; signed by the author; caption reads “Io LA STRAGE DI PORZUS 7 febbraio 1945 ore 13.30 FRIULI – 100 partigiani della “Garibaldi Natisone” passano a nord di Porzus armati’ ma sembravano sbandati diretti in Austria, di li’ non si andava in Austria... raccattando tra’ i ruderi delle baite sulle malghe di Porzus, quei fili di vita interotti abbiamo percorso a ritroso l’intricato labirinto fatto di passioni risentimenti e sciovisnismi, dal quale la resistenza ha scritto una delle pagine piu’ amare della sua storia. Erano diretti alle malghe di Porzus li’ c’era il Comando dell’Osoppo, tra i rossi e i verdi s’era scavato un solco di odio e di rancore, l’Osoppo rifiuto’ di operare con i garibaldini e non volevano guastare i rapporti di amicizia con il IX Corpus Iugoslavo."

Caption translates as: “1 – The Porzus Massacre – 7 February 1945, 1.30 pm, Friuli – A hundred partisans belonging to the “Garibaldi Natisone” unit pass north to Porzus. Armed, they looked like straggler and drifters heading to Austria. However, that was not the way to Austria… Picking up interrupted lives amidst the ruins of the mountain dairies in Porzus, we worked backwards, an elaborate labyrinth made of passions, resentment, and chauvinism. About this, the Resistance wrote the most bitter pages in history. They were headed to the mountain dairies in Porzus, where the Osoppo headquarter was. A rift made of hate and resentment was created between the ‘reds’ and ‘greens’ partisan factions. The Osoppo men refused to cooperate with the Garibaldi men as they did not want to ruin their friendship with the Yugoslavs of the the Partisan 9th Corps.”

One tempera on paper, pasted on mount board

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