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“ political animal almost without knowing it ”, whose commitment is “ natural continuation of care tasks ” ( Braga , Vittori , 2017 ).
The outcome : the first diffusion and the beginning of a debate , for the first time in the history of Italy ( perhaps of Europe ) with the ambition to go beyond the level of ideals . The task of recovering the historical roots and civilization of the European population was measured against the political ties , with the lesson of the harmful consequences of nationalisms . There was - Ursula and Ada had direct experience - the hostility of the communist confined , in the struggle of Europe between the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact and the war . The Communist group itself was torn apart , as the solitary walks of Camilla Ravera and Umberto Terracini , marginalized after the expulsion from the party , recount in the memoirs of an exiled person . From the correspondence between Rossi and Spinelli , “ Empirico ” and “ Pantagruel ”, ( Graglia , 2012 ), from the writings of Colorni and from many pages of Spinelli , the loneliness of the Europeanists appears . The network of relations between Ada and Ursula favors socialist and shareholder groups , from which adhesions came , together with painful ruptures of ancient political affinities . Altiero ’ s sisters Fiorella and Gigliola also took part in the dissemination work , who will join the Partisan Action Groups . They secretly provided the printing of the first Manifesto , then of the modified versions and other texts , in Bergamo , Milan and elsewhere . In the documents produced by Hirschmann in the two-year period 1941-1943 , almost all private , one can read clear analysis , which explain the origin of an apparently outdated utopia in 1941 , while Nazi-fascism was winning . In reality it would have arisen precisely from the catastrophic course of the war ; leaving Europe in the hands of the nation-states meant giving up the future .
When the Fascist regime collapsed in the summer of 1943 , but it was still in secrecy , the Federalist Movement was born . The chro-
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