The "Unitarists" organize themselves into a political party: "Identity and Unity" is bornAt the head of the party Giovanni Maria Brunori della Scala takes a strong stand against the independenstist/autonomist parties: "Falsehood and biased propaganda! Our history deserves more respect"Giovanni Maria Brunori della Scala presents its newly founded political party; there were a lot of old Istalian flags displayed during the ceremony in opposition to the new national symbols considered by Brunori and the party as "empty fetishes of the political and historical eradication vortex into which the country has sunk"It seems not everyone in Quanzar and Alaria has forgotten the country it once was, Istalia, and after more than 10 years from the birth of the new federation, dominated by independentist parties, the birth of a new political actor who can give voice to all those who oppose the new state order was announced today.
In Colsamia, formerly known as Romula which for over 2 millennia was the capital of Istalia, the lawyer and former army general Giovanni Maria Brunori della Scala presented the new political movement, called "Identity and Unity", on the occasion of the inauguration of the headquarters of the cultural association "Memory of Istalia", also founded by Brunori and a large number of people who wanted to oppose the systematic cancellation of the country's identity and the biased alteration of its historical memory.
Brunori, who got on the podium, in front of the audience made a decidedly critical speech against the current dominating political forces, the new state organization and the political dialectic of recent years aimed, according to the new political organization, to subvert the historical reality in order to endorse and support the parties at the power and their hold on the country:
The memory of a national identity that has been the one of this land for over 31 centuries has not been forgotten my friends!
The axe of cultural eradication has hit the country and our identity, exalting ephemeral particularities and favoring the disintegration of a nation that was once united.
Falsehood and propaganda have distorted our history, portraying it as an ethnic oppression, a foreign occupation, when instead the only truth is that for over 30 centuries we have been a single people, enriched by the variety of cultures that have forged it and which they were part, coexisting in peace and harmony as an expression of the country's millennial history.
They want us to believe that the Peninsula has been a land occupied by the Islanders for over 29 centuries! They want us to believe that for 29 centuries one of the most stable and long-lived nation-states in history was actually a regime of ethnic occupation!
The truth is that for over 3000 years those who had to defend themselves from countless foreign occupations and those who suffered countless times attempts of ethnic and cultural eradication were us... we, the Istalians!
Should I be ashamed to call myself in such a way? I won't, because that's what I am, that's what we are! From the peaks of the Nayar in the west to the easternmost shores of the island, we are all Istalians. A people that for centuries has made the country's numerous ethnic, religious and cultural minorities its strength; they themselves were part of and characterized Istalian identity and culture.
They speak about oppression when the truth is that for millennia representatives of all the numerous components of this great people of ours have participated equally and without discrimination in the political, social, cultural and economic life of the country.
The deniers of this truth are indeed the umpteenth ones who are trying to eradicate our true identity. And not content for having distorted our past, almost as a mockery of centuries of struggles and real oppressions, they even wanted to revive a term that for centuries has been synonymous of pain, humiliation and suffering: "Quanzar", like the Kafuri invaders who for almost 5 centuries first subjugated the peninsula and then the island and again the Solentian invaders, worthy descendants of the former, who three times established authoritarian regimes that made the extinction of our identity the cornerstone of their political action.
They want me to call my language "Fidelian", they want me to declare myself "Alarian", even though my family and I have lived in Romula for generations beyond memory, and yes... Romula, that's her name, not an invention of an invading people, but a name that the city has carried for millennia, a name that, however, today, in this climate of denial and historical eradication, seems "inconvenient".
Well, let me tell you that I and all of us, who have not forgotten who we are and who are not ashamed to proudly claim it, will not stop until we have put an end to this ethnic, historical and cultural erasure.
Once again we are called to defend ourselves from those who want to cancel us, from those who want to make us something else! Once the enemy was a foreign invader, today it's an ideology that like a disease has spread among us and that is the only thing that really needs to be eradicated!
Brothers, remember the glorious words of what was our Anthem: Let us unite, Istalia has called!
Welcomed with thunderous applause, Brunori then began to hardly criticize the words expressed recently and in the previous years by the leadership of both the League for the Independence of Quanzar and of the Popular Front of Alaria.
Brunori attacked first of all the newly elected Federal President Sofia Barberi and their words expressed in the aftermath of the last elections:
How can you talk about an "artificial Istalian State"? How you dare talking about Istalia as something of artificial and imposed? How much disrespect for the memory of all those who for centuries have died to defend their Istalian identity!
One kingdom, six republics, one empire! Should we really believe that it was 32 centuries of "artificial and fictitious" history? Yet it was Alaria that was known first of all as Istalia, right there in Alaria came into being that syncretism of cultures that gave rise to the Istalians! With what courage can one deny all this?
The only reasons that led to the creation of this Alarian independence movement were momentary passing and particular interests and whims, an island parochialism aimed only at defending and enhancing the particular interests of the island.
If we are against forms of local autonomy? Not at all! We are aware of the richness and variety that has always distinguished the Istalian people. What we oppose is the sectarian propaganda that has accompanied the new course of the country, a propaganda that has distorted reality and bent it to the interests of the moment, a propaganda worthy of the worst totalitarian regimes, pure historical revisionism.
It is simply embarrassing that the current head of state could follow up on such bias and it is sad to see how the memory of our fathers is so trampled. Well Madam Federal President, not all your fellow citizens are ready to forget over thirty centuries of history!
But the harshest words were addressed by Brunori della Scala to the other party responsible for the creation of the new Federation, today at the opposition, namely the League for the Independence of Quanzar:
It is abhorrent that a political party in this country has had the courage to use the term "Quanzar". But on the other hand, let's look at who formed the hard core of these separatists, radical exponents of Majatran and Solentian communities who, in order to achieve the power, did not hesitate to give themselves the name of those who, more than any other, were the worst enemies of Istalia.
People who did not hesitate to express the worst guff to bring grist to the mill ! Just big criers who spoke about marginalization and cultural destruction and assimilation when instead the majatran istalians have been widely protected for centuries and their culture has always been recognized as one of the most important souls of the Istalian people. They say that their language has been despised and their communities forcibly integrated when, on the other hand, there have been countless measures aimed at safeguarding them! Just to name a few, do we want to forget about the
4566 Devolution Program from the Istalian Majatran? Or the even more fundamental
Official Recognition of the Istalian Majatrans as Ethnic, Cultural and Linguistic National Minority of 4489? So should we really believe the lies about an oppressed and forcibly assimilated people?
And about the Solentians... what to say? Apparently too many have just turned out to be ungrateful! Only God knows how much Istalia has struggled to cope with the migratory waves of refugees coming from Solentia! Only God knows how much Istalia has suffered due to the countless, too many, authoritarian regimes that have taken place in Solentia. Those were regimes of ethnic oppression and supremacism. They had the courage to talk about Istalia in the same terms with which, rightly, we talked about Solentia, pariah of Majatra like few we have seen. For centuries, Istalia has been a beacon of truth, justice, democracy and tolerance even for our neighbors... and is this how they repay us? Apparently old habits die hard! I would not be surprised if one of those Solentians sooner or later came out claiming a lineage from the
House of Hessex! A joke? Certainly, but nowadays I would not be surprised, since the falsehoods, the partisan propaganda and the politics of ethnic and cultural suppression unite the current politics with the nefarious regimes that have borne the name of "Quanzar".
The use of such a term is an insult to the memory of all those who gave their lives to fight the oppressive Quanzars, an insult to the memory of our founding fathers, starting with the first true Father of the Country, Carlo Aurelio Gianti, the one who in front of the first istalian parliament, expression of the first Istalian democracy, proclaimed the unity and indivisibility of the country, the end of the centuries-old foreign oppression and the newfound freedom of the Istalian people.
To those who care about our country and who have not forgotten the millennial memory that we carry with us, know that we will do everything to restore the respect for our past and rehabilitate the honor of our history!
Will Giovanni Maria Brunori della Scala be able to reinvigorate the souls of the Istalians despite the very strong hold of the current parties in power over the country? On the other hand, the sixth republic was a long and dark period in the history of the country, a sinking towards an increasingly authoritarian, paternalistic and religious regime to which a military dictatorship was unable to respond, as could be expected from a dictatorship. There have been many errors, said Brunori, many citizens and entire communities have gradually distanced themselves from power and central government, a distancing that has also had cultural and social implications during the countless decades of decline and political oppression and then chaos.
Brunori, however, firmly stated that the dismemberment of the country and the distortion of its essence cannot be effective and adequate responses and expressed deep concern for the consequences that division between "continental" and "islanders" could bring.
However, Brunori's political career and his ambitions could also be undermined by his past: he in fact made a career in the armed forces, in the Army advocacy body to be precise, before and during the dictatorship of the military junta. Although he left the Army before the fall of the junta dedicating himself to civil forensic activity and never had any political role during those years, his military background could in fact bring several criticisms to him.