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100Itext 9/3/05 7:17 Am Page I 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page i 54 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page ii by the same authors Q 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page iii 54 Wu Ming Translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside WILLIAM HEINEMANN : LONDON 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page iv First published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by William Heinemann 13579108642 Copyright © 2002 Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino Translated from the Italian, 54 Translation copyright © Shaun Whiteside 2005 Partial or total reproduction of this book, in electronic form or otherwise, is consented to for non-commercial purposes, provided that the original copyright notice and this notice are included and the publisher and source are clearly acknowledged Page 228: Anything Goes; Lyrics by Cole Porter, © 1934 (Renewed) Harms Inc, usa; Chappell Music Ltd, London w68bs; Reproduced by permission of International Music Publications Ltd.; All rights reserved Pages 453, 455: Things Are Looking Up; Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, © 1937 Chappell-Co Inc, usa; Warner/Chappell North America, London w6 8bs; Reproduced by permission of International Music Publications Ltd.; All rights reserved William Heinemann The Random House Group Limited 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, sw1v 2sa Random House Australia (Pty) Limited 20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point, Sydney New South Wales 2061, Australia Random House New Zealand Limited 18 Poland Road, Glenfield Auckland 10, New Zealand Random House (Pty) Limited Endulini, 5a Jubilee Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa The Random House Group Limited Reg. No. 954009 www.randomhouse.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Papers used by Random House are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin isbn 0 434 01293 9 (Hardback) isbn 0 434 01294 7 (Trade Paperback) Typeset by Palimpsest Book Production Limited, Polmont, Stirlingshire Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Ltd, Beccles, Suffolk. 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page v For Gilberto Centi 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page vi 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page vii Contents The Background 3 Part One: Sipanˇ 23 Part Two: McGuffin Electric 297 Coda 509 End Titles 543 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page viii 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page 1 ‘Postwar’ means nothing. What fools called ‘peace’ simply meant moving away from the front. Fools defended peace by supporting the armed wing of money. Beyond the next dune the clashes continued. The fangs of chimerical beasts sinking into flesh, the heavens full of steel and smoke, whole cultures uprooted from the earth. Fools fought the enemies of today by bankrolling those of tomorrow. Fools swelled their chests, talked of ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, ‘in our country’, as they devoured the fruits of riots and looting. They were defending civilisation against Chinese shadows of dinosaurs. They were defending the planet against fake images of asteroids. They were defending the Chinese shadow of a civilisation. They were defending the faked image of a planet. 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page 2 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page 3 The Background 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page 4 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page 5 I The Yugoslavian front, spring 1943 ITALIAN SOLDIERS! The Slovenian people have launched an inexorable struggle against the occupying forces. Many of your comrades have already fallen in that struggle. And you will go on falling day after day, night after night, for as long as you remain tools in the hands of our oppressors, and until Slovenia is liberated. Your leaders will lead you to believe that the Slovenian people love you, that you are being attacked only by ‘tiny numbers of communists’. This is an insolent lie. All Slovenes are in accord with the struggle against the occupying forces. Under the leader- ship of the Slovenian National Liberation Committee, our entire people has organised itself into a single invincible liberation front. ITALIAN SOLDIERS! Your superiors are concealing from you the desperate situation into which Mussolini has hurled the ‘Italian Empire’ by selling it to Hitler. They are hiding from you the fact that Abyssinia, for which Mussolini spilled so much Italian blood, is no longer in Italian hands. They are hiding from you the impasse that Italian troops face in all of their African colonies. They are hiding from you the losses that Italian troops have suffered in the Balkans, and the fact that western Serbia, Montenegro, most of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Lika, and parts of Dalmatia have already been liberated. They are hiding from you the terrible 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page 6 6 WU MING losses and torments inflicted upon Italian troops by the crushing weight of Russian weapons on the Russian front, and by the unbearable Russian winter. They are hiding from you the chaos that is breaking out in Italian cities as a result of the growing food shortages, the result of continuous bombing by the British Air Force, and the growing discontent of the Italian people with the policies of the warmonger Mussolini, who is plunging Italy into the abyss. ITALIAN SOLDIERS! Understand what the Italian populace at home is coming to understand more and more, that Hitler is pushing you on all fronts: in Africa, in the Balkans, in France and in the USSR, so that you will be unable to form a resistance in your own country when he attacks ‘Allied’ Italy, just as he has attacked ‘Allied Yugoslavia’. Understand what any blind man must under- stand today, that Italy, as long as it gives allegiance to Germany, will suffer a terrible defeat at sea, on land and in the skies, at the hands of the united forces of Russia, Great Britain and all the freedom-loving peoples of the world. Understand, Italian soldiers, that the only way out for you and for the whole of the Italian people is to turn your weapons against those who have brought both you and us nothing but misfortune, to turn them against Mussolini’s fascist gang! It is vain to claim that you too condemn the bestiality of Hitler and Mussolini, that you too wish to see the end of fascism and the end of the war. You must use your actions to demonstrate your love of freedom and peace, your hatred of the oppressors, both yours and ours. Otherwise what awaits you is ruin, both yours and theirs. ITALIAN SOLDIERS! The Communist Party of Slovenia appeals to you: Do not carry out your superiors’ orders, do not fire on the Slovenians, do not persecute the partisans, but surrender to them, do not stand in the way of our liberation struggle! 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page 7 54 THE BACKGROUND 7 Attack and disarm the fascist militia, the agents of OVRA and all those who are forcing you to fight against the Slovenian people. Destroy the Italian armed forces, destroy the stores of weapons and food unless you can give them to the partisans, destroy the means of transport of the Italian army, lorries, motorcycles, horses, roads, railways, etc.! Do not let the Italian armies be posted to the Russian front, to die for the lunatic Hitler and his satellites! Demand to return to your homeland! Desert the Italian army, our people will be glad to help you! Give your weapons and ammunition to the partisans and the Popular Defence. Join the Slovenian partisan units and help them, guns in hand, to bring to an early conclusion the absurd butchery of war, so that you can very soon return to your homes, to your poor abandoned mothers, wives and children, and establish a true sovereignty of the people in your own homeland. long live the common struggle of all peoples against fascist barbarism! long live the ussr and its invincible red army, the most powerful defender of freedom and progress! long live stalin, the leader of the people and workers in all countries! long live the communist party of yugoslavia! death to fascism – freedom to the people! Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia Someone had written ‘SMRT FASISMU’ˇ in red paint on the peeling wall. The men had been lined up in front of it. Their faces were blank. Closed, absent. Like the windows of the village. The captain yelled orders at the unit. The Italian soldiers assumed 100itext 9/3/05 7:17 am Page 8 8 WU MING their positions, rifles shouldered. Almost all of them reservists. The officer was the youngest, with a well-trimmed moustache and a grey garrison cap tilted on his forehead. The condemned men raised their eyes to look their butchers in the face. To be certain that they were men like themselves. They were used to death, even their own, they had grown accustomed to it over thousands of generations. On the other side eyes lowered, reflected sensations. The two rows of men faced one another, motionless, like statues abandoned in a field. One of the condemned men rubbed a foot against his leg, a move- ment at once automatic and grotesque. The captain turned to face the houses and called the interpreter over. ‘The inhabitants of this village have given refuge to communist rebels. The same ones who cold-bloodedly murdered two Italian soldiers last night.’ The interpreter translated. ‘You have been warned! Anyone who offers refuge to bandits, anyone who offers them protection and lodging, is guilty of collabor- ation and will pay with his life!’ The officer let the interpreter translate once more.
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