So can you tell us a little bit about how this, uh, viewpoint of the British about communist, uh, partisans was, uh, playing out?

The British fear had a very specific trigger.

The crisis with the communist partisans in Greece had revived the fear of a communist contagion spreading to Italy too.

But the Italian political situation was fundamentally different.

The CLN, formed in Rome in 1943, brought all the anti-fascist parties under one umbrella, communist, Christian Democrats, socialist action party.

The communists were operating inside a coalition, not against one.

By 1944, the Garibaldi Brigades accounted for roughly half of all the partisan fighters in Italy.

So tell us a little bit about the Porzus massacre and which we've mentioned earlier, exactly why it happened.