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[ittuabafarda]

I wish we all refrain from politicizing or misuse this historic feat by our gallant fathers in which they stood tall and spat in the face of murderous fascists. Every regime that followed the late Emperor has used the anniversary to present itself just as one of those heroes especially when things start not going their ways. But we as members of the common generation should instead tell what those heroes accomplished paying with their priceless lives. I can tell you a few of their feats.
1) They were the first victims of being gassed to death after the First World War with Mussolini's mustard and other banned chemical weapons. Over a million citizens were butchered this way 5 years before the gas chambers of Dachau, Treblinka, Chełmno, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and other concentration camps.
2) They had kept more than 250,000 soldiers of fascist soldiers tied inside Ethiopia until the end of 1941 denying the Desert Fox Rommel a much needed reinforcement in the North African Theater. I'm not making this up because it was told by an American reporter on NBC Radio broadcast on May 18, 1941 with a blaring announcement '38,000 Italians surrendered on that day bringing the total captured Axis forces to more than 200,000 in Ethiopia '.
3) They were the first ones to beat the crap out of the Axis Powers even before the start of the Second World War in May 1941. They were the first ones who fascist forces capitulated to under Instruments of Surrender at Addis/Finfine, Dire Dawa, Jimma, Gambela, Alage and Gondar. Now some of you Ethiopia haters may start mumbling with British this and South Africa that. But by the time these came the old country was an open battle site already. Addis was Città Aperta; Dire Dawa was Città Aperta; Jimma Was Citta Aperta; Gambela was Città Aperta; Alage was Città Aperta and Gondar was already rendered Città Aperta by the constant siege by our gallant fathers. .
We have to tell our children and grandchildren about this entire feat by our fathers that has been etched in historic stone because no one is talking about it in history classes. I call upon our well read historians among us here and everywhere to write about this. For now, I am gonna talk about it until bigoted haters of the old country fall unconscious.