The participant of the Italian movement of the resistance of Gilberto Malvesto shared memories of the events of the Second World War and congratulated everyone on Victory Day. RIA Novosti talked with veteran.
One of the above-mentioned episodes became fake funerals who organized German soldiers. For several evenings, the military beat the procession with crosses to distract the allied troops. “The next day artillery was shelled from this area. Then we realized that it was a deception. When the Germans decided to repeat the trick, I gave an order to open shooting, and they ran away. In the cart, which they threw, were shells. Were dead, precisely At that moment I realized what war was, “said Malvesto.
In addition, the Italian veteran shared that he feels the debt to the country. He would like young people “to relate to each other as brothers.”
In April, Malvesto turned 100 years. He lives in the care facility in the elderly in the hometown of Sulmon, this is the last officer of the famous “Mayerla Brigade”, military unit of Italian resistance.