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"Falcone and Borsellino? There is the hand of Gladio and the CIA behind that."
"I sempre più stanchi e retorici rituali delle commemorazioni ufficiali che si susseguono di anno in anno, anziché aiutare a fare memoria, alimentano l'effetto-melassa. Puntando tutto sull'agiografia dell'eroico giudice antimafia e nulla su quei particolari dei suoi ultimi giorni di vita che, presi uno per uno, non dicono nulla. Ma che composti nel mosaico cronologico aiutano a capire molto, se non tutto. E cioè la natura politico-terroristica della strage di via D'Amelio, con le peculiarità che la distinguono da quella di Capaci a dispetto della ravvicinata consecutio temporum, e la proiettano piuttosto su quello che accadrà molti mesi dopo: le bombe della primavera-estate del 1993 a Milano, Firenze e Roma e poi la «pax mafiosa» iniziata con il mancato (anzi, revocato) attentato allo stadio Olimpico della capitale, coincisa con la discesa in campo politico di Silvio Berlusconi e Marcello Dell'Utri, e proseguita fino ad oggi"
"I apologize to the victims’ families and to those who have been wronged. I have tried so many times to tell the truth. I have said that the ones who forced me to lie were La Barbera, Bo, Giampiero Valenti, and Mimmo Militello, and I am sorry because every time I am judged as the perpetrator. [...] I have always said that I know nothing about the massacre and that I was coerced into making those statements. Until my last breath, I will try to defend myself to dispel any doubt about the monstrosity they have pinned on me. [...] They have destroyed my life; I haven’t lived for 22 years, I am locked up in isolation, and I pray to God that the truth will come out. I was beaten in front of my children, and my wife even had a gun pointed at her."
"I didn’t even know where Via D’Amelio was. I spoke only out of fear: they tortured me, beat me, starved me. [...] To keep me from eating, they’d put flies in my pasta. Once in Pianosa I heard two guards talking... a guy with a mustache, a Sicilian sergeant, was saying to the other: “Piscia, piscia.” Once that sergeant even raised his hands against me. Another time, after I went to the dentist, they made me believe I had AIDS, when it was just a simple case of hepatitis."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.