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“The documents of the culture of '1977' are in a large part irretrievable as if one was dealing with a distant epoch, a past that official culture wants to remove every trace and memory of.”

a/Traverso, march 1987.

“Two opinion polls held in 1999 and 2006 among high-school students resident in the three Italian cities where the most aggressive terrorist attacks of the 1970s occurred, demonstrated that knowledge of these events had decreased considerably over time. Whereas in 1999, 96,6% of the students in Milan claimed to be familiar with a massacre that had struck this city in 1969, in 2006 this number had gone down to 81,6%. Furthermore, almost half of the students identified, in both occasions, a notorious left-wing terrorist group as the authors of the attacks, ignoring the simple fact that this group did not yet exist at the time.”

Andrea Hajek, Teaching Terrorism in Italy: Towards a Politics of Nonreconciliation, Department of Italian University of Warwick (Coventry, UK)