Just like today, before Hitler invaded Poland and started the biggest war in history, there were a significant number of political parties and movements calling for “peace and understanding” with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. This “No to War” political movement enabled Hitler’s growth and imperialist expansionism into Europe for the sake of “peace”.
In Malta, we had our own “No to War” politicians. They were none other than the pro-Italian irredentists who loved their fellow Maltese so much they spoke in court in a language their clients didn’t even understand. These were led by Nerik Mizzi who by the late 30s had amassed significant political power by various means including by allying himself with the main pro-clerical party of Ugo Mifsud to form the “Partito Nazionale”. After winning the elections of 1932, Mizzi was made Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and also Minister for Education but his reach and influence was by far more extended.
Before the Second World War, Nerik Mizzi used to pen and publish articles depicting Mussolini and Hitler in a positive light, calling for peace in Europe, and at one point in time, even proposing the exchange of Malta with Abyssinia between Italy and Britain to achieve “peace”. Nerik Mizzi was also a strong supporter of Mussolini and was financed by him on various occasions – you can read about it in my extensive research on Malta’s fascists in the 1930s in this paper.
Today, as Malta aligns itself with Hungary on foreign policy, Robert Abela is placing the Labour Party in a very dark historical legacy that is similar to that of the Maltese pro-Italian irredentists in the 1930s. Their common ideological preference in accepting the geopolitics of imperialism can’t be even clearer. In fact, the Labour Party of today is even beginning to revise its history, like for example, Alex Agius Saliba who once said that Malta should have remained out of the Second World War by staying “neutral”.
The Second World War was Malta’s war as it was Europe’s. I’m immensely proud as a Maltese that my grand-grand parents played an important role in massacring one of the Nazi’s most elite air force units: the Fliegerkorps X, apart from effectively stalling the Nazi’s advance in North Africa by cutting off their supplies. More than 4,000 Maltese died in what was back then, and still until today, the most intensive air bombardment campaign in history. Guess for whom most of these Maltese died?
The first and immediate Maltese victims (of course, by execution) had the Italians and the Germans conquered Malta, would have been Paul Boffa and all the Labour Party officials who back then, were known, by the clerics and the right as Bolshevists. Show some bloody gratitude, imbeciles.
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