boss Vito Genovese in the uniform of the American army with Salvatore Giuliano many, many years ago (but this is not a fairy tale and not have a happy ending) in January, January 4, 1947, in front of the house, a country of Sicily (my bitter earth, bitter and beautiful), Sciacca, died a man who claimed to own a phrase taken from Hemingway: "Better to die standing than live on my knees."
And, indeed, on his knees Accursio never lived!
Those were hard years and years of iron and fire, had just emerged from war and Italy had experienced the horror of the invasion and civil war. We had a great desire to turn the page, or at least some were willing to turn the page.
In the south there was the landing of the Anglo-American Cassibile armistice and then cosanostra's men had taken control of the situation
Wolf writes " The story of a mafia who helped the Allies landed in Sicily is just a myth without any feedback, indeed there are British and American documents on the preparation of the landing that disprove this theory, the military might of the Allies was that not need to resort to such means. One of the few episodes of the documents found on the floor Lucky Luciano is the help offered to the secret services of the U.S. Navy to stop some of sabotage, which he commissioned in the port of New York, but everything has a minimum value from the point of Historically, and especially has no connection with "Operation Husky". The landing in Sicily does not represent any link between the U.S. military and the mafia, but it certainly helped to strengthen the ties and business concerns of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra with the cousins \u200b\u200boverseas. " [13]
If the hypothesis that the "friends of friends" had a decisive role in the Anglo-American landing in Sicily is to be discarded, however, denied that the allies to be assisted by the likes of Calogero Vizzini and Giuseppe Genco Russo to maintain order on the island and occupied the American boss Vito Genovese, despite being wanted by U.S. police, he became the interpreter of confidence of Charles Poletti, head of the military command ally. (see here)
In those years when the north dreamed of a reconstruction blessed by the "North Wind", the south was hoping for a real agrarian reform, blessed by "Gullo decrees" .
Miraglia, who belonged to lower middle class (he had planted a small industrial activity of the fish), was known as a benefactor (and not in words, had it restored at his own expense a part of the orphanage and practical help the orphans of bite the poor by donating basic necessities). He wanted to help farmers harassed by gabelloti and barons, creating, among other things, the first work chamber Sicilian and the cooperative "Mother Earth" and called for the implementation of the Gullo decrees that any cooperatives of land uncultivated estates. He was also chairman of the hospital esteemed Sciacca. Well
Accursio Miraglia died standing: he was killed on the evening of January 4, 1947, when he was coming home, right on the doorstep. He was a benefactor Accursio Miraglia, but mainly it was an enemy of those landowners who knew that in Italy because everything changes and nothing changes "Gullo decrees" would fade away, like so many other dreams. Thus, an upright man like Accursio, who fought for the poor, was a nuisance to remove.
The mafia of the time it was the armed wing of the landowners in the area. The barons lived in cities and instead just took an interest in the defense of their lands and estates. To protect their assets, then the landowners made use of people, more good with a gun than with words, he was there and actually ran it. The Mafia became so administrators, keepers, gabelloti and eventually take over everything. While, for example Luciano Liggio became administrator of the estate of Strasatto, our Caramel, Stephen, Sciacca boss becomes knight of gabelloti Rossi and Baroness Martinez.
Epilogue: the funeral of Accursio Miraglia not occurred in the church, there were only the funeral expenses civilians, because the priests said they killed a man who had died was not entitled to a religious funeral (so the victim was treated the murderer, but then had forgotten to death that Jesus died). The population Accursio solemn tribute to honors for six days. Accursio's family, his wife Tatiana, Russia, who had no experience in business, was aided by the fishermen from Sciacca yielding her the freshest fish for its industry of the fish. The perpetrators of his murder were soon found, confessed and then recanted and were never punished. The coffin Accursio Miraglia, who had not received the religious funeral, she was taken on the shoulders of peasants from the Chamber of Labour to the cemetery. Just come to the graveyard gray day gave a few drops of rain and a farmer said this: "A voseru you benediciri the men, but you binidiciu Diu.
Blunotte See also "Land and Freedom. Miraglia's death, and Rizzotto Carnival
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