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This stadium was built between 1925 and 1926 and was the second to be opened in Italy after that of Turin.
It is a clear symbol of the fascist regime intent to give the image of itself as a necessary revolution to modernize the country.
...as so it thus represents a propaganda action to achieve the population consent and
also a very important action of society "Fascistization" through sport.
The eagle is the symbol of the greatness of the Roman Empire that Mussolini wanted to re-establish
in an exhausted Italy because of the First World War.
The eagle is immediately readable as a symbol of totalitarian ideology
What do you think that the eagle, a fascist symbol, has not been removed and is still inside the Stadium?
I do not agree because I knew that some statues partisan,
like those of Via Lame, were made with the bronze statue
of Mussolini on horseback but I didn't honestly know anything about the eagle.
No. There was no need to keep the eagle there.
I am very critical about everything related to the fascist period
and everything that can be considered as a review of that dictatorship in all its aspects.
It seems to me that it is an apology of Fascism.
According to me the architecture is a historical memory that must remain.
We have many examples of fascist architecture in Italian cities
and they are examples of things well done.
Not everything has to be denied.
The important thing is that they removed the Mussolini statue
and they have redone very different sculptures like those of partisans
but about the eagle I think we don't have to remove them
because they are a part of the Roman history.
I think we should keep all things both negative and positive.
History is history.
I think it is already too much if it is simply a way to remember those who have made it.
If it is for nostalgic purpose then it is even worse.
The story of Arpad Weisz, the Hungarian coach who was considered a hero at that time in Bologna and welcomed by the fascists as a hero.
In 1938 after the issuing of the racial laws, just for the fact of being a Jew, he suddenly became an enemy.
The memory of this stele is the memory of those who in the name of this ideology have suffered the deprivation of rights
and then the deprivation of life.
I believe that in this place, because of this conflict of stories and memories represented, it is right that they remain both.
What do you think about the fact that the fascist eagle lies in the immediate proximity of the plaque dedicated to Arpad Weisz?
The plaque was recently made.
I believe that not even a year has elapsed from its creation,
made to give prestige to the coach who did good as did the President Dall'Ara.
I of course speak about the Bologna soccer team,
but I had not noticed they put the plaque near the eagle.
I know the reason of the plaque and I think they were right.
It seems a paradox that under the fascist eagle there is the plaque.
It is rather ambiguous and contradictory.
The proximity of the symbols - the statue, the eagle and Arpad Weisz plaque - I think it is right.
Dall'Ara was part of the Bologna fascists and was a very powerful man.
He was one of the first fascists and Bologna, for this reason, receives under the Mussolini regime public embellishment works.
Even the current name is important because it is related to
this fascist man and we should wonder, even on this, why?