Qhen a father looks at a son, he sees all the children of the world, even those who are born and live under bombs ». These are the words of Biagio Antonacci, 58: he dedicated them to his son Carlo, born just three months ago. Biagio and Carlo are the protagonists of our new cover because Saturday 19th March will be Father’s Day. For this occasion, e exclusively for Vanity FairBiagio wrote a letter to his son, as if it were the text of his most important song of all. You can find it on page 36: do not lose it, it is a manifesto of life, of hope, of struggle.
Of freedom.
Change of perspective. Mariupol, Ukraine, children’s hospital. From the rubble of the structure bombed by the Russian army, a stretcher arrives supported by some volunteers: it carries a pregnant woman who has her gaze lost in space, long hair, a hand under her chin, as in a gesture of amazement, and the other around the womb, as if to protect the child she carries within her. The image goes around the world while Vladimir Putin’s propaganda will try to disprove it with yet another shameful fake news.
Putin will fail. But the woman will lose her life. And so was her baby. Instead, she will be able to give birth to her own son Marianna Podgurskaya, also a guest of the same hospital, and she too ended up in the infamy of Russian fake news. Before the invasion of Ukraine, Marianna worked as a beauty influencer, advertising make-up, products and creams. We will remember her with the blood on her face, the gathered hair and the pride of those who do not want to give in to fear and despair.
Wars are this. And dictators like Vladimir Putin are this. You don’t see their true faces on their faces but on those of their victims. As I write this, I don’t know how long this useless war will last, if the negotiations finally lead to a result, if mass graves, bombs, illegal weapons and yet another Moscow lies will hopefully become a thing of the past.
What I know is that there are no explanations, neither political nor economic, behind those who shoot humanitarian cordons or those who bomb a children’s hospital.. What I do know is that we are lucky to live in a country, Italy, and in a community, Europe, which have nothing to do with Putin’s Russia.
What I do know is that our freedom has a price, a price that must be paid and that must also be defended. What I know is that looking at the children of Ukraine, therefore the children of all, one can only write that there are two worlds. That of freedom and that of Putin. And we can only wish all children to live in the world of freedom.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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