Rimini, Karis high school students discuss the invasion of Ukraine
The initiative was born from below. From the need of the students of the three Karis high schools in rimini, to seek how to understand the reason for the invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. From the need to understand how and to what extent the drama of the war affects them and also involves them living on the Adriatic coast. In just two days, thanks to the help of their teachers, more than two hundred gathered this morning (March 1) in the hall of the Tarkovskijl theater to talk and ask questions to two first-person testimonies of the beginning and the first consequences of the sugared almond. The first is a young Italian mother, Caterina Dell’Asta, a language teacher, who has lived in Kiev since 2014 and married a Ukrainian citizen. She returned with her husband and two young daughters to our country at the beginning of last week, a few days after the invasion. The second, Giovanna Parravicini, researcher of the Christian Russia Foundation and director of the Russian edition of the magazine “La Nuova Europa”, is connected via video with the Karis students from her home in Moscow. While to enter the topic to the students with a brief historical reconstruction of the tensions between Ukraine and Russia and on the current geopolitics, it was Simone Argelli, vice president of the San Pellegrino linguistic high school. Many questions from the boys. From the more general ones like why it happened now, to the central one for all young people: we who are in Rimini, what relationship can we have with what is happening? Caterina Dell’Asta responded by witnessing in an intense and direct way how much she and her family are experiencing: “Everyone is given a place to be and that maybe you don’t choose yourself, but if it is given to you it means that that too can be useful. . In Kiev I have friends who live in an area where there have been the strongest bombings. We made them break down our front door and they spent days there staying safer. We were able to donate our home because we are in Italy. Then our neighborhood was also hit and our friends fled thanks to our car that was in front of the house “. “Since the 24th we have been overwhelmed by requests from friends who tell us to tell what is happening, that there is war. We are all close, the war is not far away, we need each of us to tell and perhaps organize the welcome for the displaced – continued Caterina Dell’Asta – In reality we are all close. The place that seems insignificant to us, that has been given to us in this moment of life, actually has its own importance, you have to be open only with your eyes and ears to understand what to do “. Many questions also on an aspect considered very important by the students: what is the opinion of the Russian people regarding the war and the possible impact of the citizens’ anti-war demonstrations on their government. Giovanna Parravacini answered: “The Russian is a great people. It has contributed a lot to international culture. The Orthodox Catholic cultural center that we have founded is a place of dialogue. But in the last few we have seen a closure to the West and to Western cultures. The Russian people have also become to some extent the victim of a coercion of freedom, to discussion and confrontation. We try with our cultural activity to create places where a person can be free to say what he thinks. The battlefield is that of a moral and civil resistance. I don’t know what Putin thinks about it, but in Russia a civil society that does not identify with the regime is emerging and spreading ”. “In recent days, more than 5,000 police stops have been made of children and adults who go to the streets to protest. On social media there are many who ask for forgiveness, who expose themselves, name and surname, to say no to war. This is not a political position, it is not even against Putin, but it is for man, for the truth of man – concluded Giovanna Parravacini – Even the churches of are lined up, the leaders are struggling to be clear and because they are open fear, but the Ukrainian metropolitan who depends on that of Moscow, has asked citizens to defend their homeland. He wrote to Putin to warn him to say war immediately. In Russian society there is constant word of mouth, an alternative communication via the web of people who want the truth from the government. They say in Ukraine they only have brothers and sisters ”.
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