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Bolognina
Working-class railway district where a communist party ended itself in a plain municipal hall.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bolognina, a working-class Bologna neighborhood built for railway workers, centers on a Sunday morning in November 1989 when Communist Party secretary Achille Occhetto stood in a plain municipal hall to say something that would upend his own party. It sets the moment against an older one: partisans from these same streets fighting Nazi occupiers in the 1944 Battle of Porta Lame, whose anniversary Occhetto had come to mark. Only two journalists were in the room when he suggested it was time to invent new roads.
This audio guide was created using AI.