Citizens of Massa, Tuscany will learn more about the Soviet warriors participating in anti-fascist movement of Italy during World War II. Documentary exhibition of photos from that period will be opened there on Saturday, as per Ministry of Culture website.
Foreigners – citizens of countries included into anti-Hitler coalition, war prisoners who managed to escape from fascist concentration camps fought together with local population against enemies in Italian guerrilla forces. There were about five thousand underground groupings and more than five hundred underground warriors died.
Many Soviet soldiers became true legends in Italy. Such names as Fedor Poletaev, Nikolay Buyanov, Daniil Avdeev and Fore Mosulishvili are remembered here today. They received a title of Heroes of the Soviet Union and the most honorable award of Italy for deeds at the battlefield – gold medals For Martial Prowess.
Exposition concerns the movement itself, fates of its members and guerrilla warriors fighting at banks of the Don River at the back land of Germans, Italians and Romanians.
A conference devoted to World War II will take place as a part of the exhibition project. The Immortal Regiment of Italy and The Immortal Regiment of Russia will organize it in tandem.
Russkiy Mir
