I'll be more precise on my Montanelli quote as soon as I can check; for now I would like to underline that being part of resistence doesn't mean being republicans: a very high percentage of partisans were called "azzuri" or "badogliani" because they had asreference the state that the King restablished in the south of Italy (prime minister was Badoglio). And these were the partisans that church helped the most, as many of the others were communists. "Republichini" were in those years the supposters of nazi-fascist republic of Salò..so everybody with monarchical ideals who fought, fought as partisan (I'm not saying that everybody who fought was monarchical however)
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