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00:00In Peru, a remote island besieged by a violent revolution.
00:05With the world watching, this group chose their moment to strike.
00:11A peaceful refuge in Nevada that offered hope to its occupants.
00:16This place attracted women from across the country in search of a better life.
00:24And in France, a workers' paradise seized by an invading force.
00:30Facing annihilation, they didn't give in, but instead turned to resistance.
00:45Off the Peruvian coast, a remote island tells the story of a country held captive by fear.
01:00We can see buildings here. They have not been looked after. They've not been properly used in a very long
01:05time.
01:07In one of the roofless structures, we can find crumbling remains of tables and benches.
01:14Perhaps this had some type of institutional purpose.
01:18Take a closer look and you start to see evidence that any people who resided here
01:24did not do so by choice.
01:30This is a bit like Alcatraz. This is where you're going to put the people
01:39who must never escape.
01:42This rocky outpost was designed to house Peru's most violent offenders.
01:49They were members of a militant organization that terrorized the Peruvian people in the name of
01:55communism.
01:56The Shining Path were well organized all over Peru, and that included this prison.
02:04It looks as though a full-scale war took place.
02:08The terrorists had been preparing the uprising for months. They took their weapons, their rifles,
02:14and shouted, long live the takeover.
02:17There are hostages being held on this island. The Peruvian government had to make a decision.
02:24They launched an attack, and what followed was a massacre.
02:34This island was uninhabited for most of its history. But in the early 20th century,
02:39the government found a perfect use for it. They built a prison.
02:43Initially, it was just used to house violent criminals. But in this turbulent world of Peruvian
02:49politics, it was soon the place where political prisoners were sent to.
02:56Those prisoners were members of a communist organization called the Shining Path that first
03:02formed in the 1970s. The terrorist group was able to exploit Peru's poverty-stricken rural population,
03:11who had suffered greatly under a succession of weak civilian governments and military dictatorships.
03:18The Shining Path formed their own communist ideology,
03:23inspired by Chinese Maoism. They were a highly militant organization and established a guerrilla army.
03:34Fabrizio Tealdo is a local historian, familiar with the Shining Path's dramatic rise.
03:41The group began to take over rural areas, gradually moving towards cities.
03:46Their goal was to eventually take the capital, where the centers of state power were located.
03:55By the early 1980s, the Shining Path ranks had swelled to around 10,000 members.
04:02Their reign of terror included intimidation, public executions, and bombings throughout the country.
04:10The ultraviolence of the Shining Path was designed to frighten the Peruvian people into
04:20shifting their support from Peru as a state to the Shining Path as a movement.
04:28They knew how to choose their targets, and among other tactics, they also selected leaders for
04:34kidnappings and assassinations to increase their capacity for action.
04:41As the Peruvian government started to succeed against the Shining Path, they knew it was
04:47very important to separate the Shining Path members from the general population of Peruvian prisons.
04:59In 1982, the facility here was repurposed to incarcerate the growing number of Shining Path radicals.
05:08This is El Fronton Prison Island.
05:12By 1986, there were over 160 presumed members of the Shining Path who were imprisoned at El Fronton.
05:21They were all housed in the Blue Pavilion Block.
05:26But segregating the prisoners proved to be a fatal mistake.
05:32The Peruvian government were creating the ideal conditions for a new revolutionary cell on this
05:42little island, only five miles away from Lima, the capital of Peru.
05:46At 6am on June 18th, 1986, prison guards opened up the cells of the ground floor of the Blue Pavilion
05:56Block.
05:57But suddenly, they rushed the guards, taking them by surprise and attacking them with homemade weapons.
06:04The terrorists had daggers, crossbows and even small bazookas.
06:11They took hostages. Rapidly, they controlled the prison. Rapidly, they controlled the island.
06:20The Peruvian government soon discovered that the El Fronton takeover was part of a much bigger plan.
06:27On the same day, members of the Shining Path had rioted in various other prisons throughout the country.
06:36This was a coordinated operation.
06:40This all took place when President Alan Garcia was hosting an international congress in Lima.
06:47This was an act of propaganda to humiliate the Peruvian government in front of the whole world.
06:58The armed police were immediately sent out to El Fronton, and a negotiating team tried to
07:04communicate with the rebels using loudspeakers.
07:07Holding three prison guards as hostages for leverage, they issued a long list of demands that
07:14included better prison conditions. At two in the afternoon, the peace commission arrives.
07:20However, no agreement is reached.
07:24It becomes very clear to the Peruvian government that they're going to have to use military force
07:32against this island.
07:34This was no easy task. The rioters had smuggled in dynamite, they had gotten guns from the guards,
07:40and they had even made their own crossbows.
07:44We're at the point where the military began the counterattack, around 5.15 pm.
07:51Here, we can see how important it was to take this high point, which provides a direct line of sight
07:57to attack the Blue Pavilion.
08:00Throughout the night, the military pounded the Blue Pavilion with heavy gunfire.
08:06But their initial attacks were repelled by inmates who fired back at them and threw explosives in retaliation.
08:15With the attack failing, the president took an extreme step.
08:19He issued a supreme decree declaring the prison island a restricted military zone.
08:27This enabled President Garcia to ban civilian and judicial authorities from the island.
08:32That meant the world would not see what happened next. The consequences were swift and brutal.
08:39The Peruvian government would wreak their revenge on the prisoners at El Fontan.
08:50On June 18, 1986, El Fontan Prison Island was seized by inmates who belonged to the Shining Path terrorist group.
08:59The Peruvian military acted decisively to contain the situation.
09:07Government troops were able to rain down artillery shells onto the defenses that the prisoners had established.
09:15In the Blue Pavilion, the structure is starting to go to pieces, and the Shining Path are going to move
09:22into the cellar.
09:252 p.m. on June 18, the remaining inmates shouted out that they wanted to surrender.
09:32By now, only around 30 of the Shining Path prisoners were still alive.
09:37Over 100 had already perished in the battle. But there was an even greater retribution to follow,
09:46the shocking truth of which would not be revealed for many years.
09:52They surrender, but the story doesn't end there. They are brought in groups of five to this beach area to
09:59be executed.
10:02Their bodies were disposed in the trenches below the pavilion, covered in gasoline and burned.
10:11In the aftermath of the massacre, witnesses came forward. The military's actions came under increasing scrutiny.
10:23And despite the various trials using testimonies from survivors,
10:27survivors who among the piled up bodies numbered five, if I'm not mistaken,
10:33were not mistaken. Only two of those have provided testimonies. And despite this,
10:38the events have not been fully clarified, and investigations are still ongoing.
10:49The conflict with Shining Path eventually came to an end around the year 2000. It left some 70,000 people
10:58dead.
10:58El Frantan's haunting remains now serve as a grim reminder of one of Peru's most troubled and violent eras.
11:12In Southern Nevada, on the edge of Las Vegas, a scenic park contains the remnants of a revolutionary sanctuary.
11:25From the sky, this place stands out as a lush, green oasis, set against the backdrop of this dusty, dry
11:34desert.
11:35We can see a cluster of white buildings with a vaguely Spanish-style like a ranch or a hacienda.
11:44Smaller structures dotted around the site suggest this was a place where people once resided.
11:51When you look in these rooms, they're kind of time capsules of the mid-20th century.
11:55You see wood paneling, pink tile in the bathrooms, kitchens that look like something out of the I Love Lucy
12:04show.
12:05The question is, who were these buildings for?
12:09So this is a part of Las Vegas history that many people are not aware of, including locals.
12:15This is a place that offered women a freedom they did not have access to before.
12:20Las Vegas has always been famous for the quickie wedding, but this place tells a different side of the story.
12:26And it wasn't long before major celebrities started coming to Nevada to stay at sites like this.
12:38Dr. Diane Sebrandt is a historic preservation officer for the city of Las Vegas.
12:43Her job is to protect culturally important sites like this.
12:51Many people believe that Las Vegas history starts and ends with gambling.
12:57But there was another tourist industry that is less well known.
13:03This property was a major part of that industry, and its origins are closely connected to the
13:09creation of Las Vegas itself.
13:13Today, we think of Las Vegas as a huge city of glitz and shameless wealth.
13:19But a hundred years ago, it was a little rough and ready outpost in the desert,
13:25a place for travelers to stop in the midst of a grueling journey.
13:29This all changed with the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s.
13:34This was America's biggest engineering project since the Panama Canal,
13:39and it required thousands of workers.
13:41Almost overnight, Las Vegas turned into a boomtown.
13:46At the same time, the impact of the Great Depression began to hit harder,
13:51and drastic action was needed to stimulate the state's struggling economy.
13:57On March 19, 1931, the state governor signed Assembly Bill 98,
14:03which legalized gambling in the state of Nevada.
14:07One man, who had come to Las Vegas from the Midwest in 1928,
14:12was quick to capitalize on the liberal new law.
14:16Prosper Gooman was a businessman, and he, along with other businessmen,
14:21they purchased the Boulder Club, one of the first of four establishments
14:27that received legalized gambling licenses in Las Vegas.
14:32Gooman made a fortune from his new venture,
14:34and quickly looked for additional opportunities to make money.
14:39In December 1941, he found the perfect place.
14:44Prosper Gooman was a man who could see an opportunity.
14:48He saw that this region of Nevada might be a place of economic growth.
14:56He invested in a huge piece of property around these natural springs,
15:01and this natural oasis in the desert.
15:04He developed this site from empty fields to a successful working ranch known as Tule Springs.
15:11But soon, this site would be transformed into a prime vacation spot.
15:18So it initially was a working ranch, but it started taking on guests as a dude ranch.
15:24This was a time when America was fascinated by all things Western.
15:29So the notion of a dude ranch, a place where you could go and ride horses and spend time side
15:37by side
15:37with real working cowboys and maybe even come home with a cowboy hat.
15:49If you were staying at Tule Springs Ranch in the 1940s, you wouldn't just see cowboys and horses roaming around,
15:59you'd probably also see a few glamorous young women.
16:04The reason they were here was because of a piece of legislation passed on the same day gambling was legalized
16:10in 1931.
16:13This new law introduced the concept of a quickie divorce.
16:17And to qualify, all you had to do was become a resident of Nevada and live there for six weeks.
16:22But you also had to have witnesses that attested that you had stayed in the same place for six weeks.
16:29So Prosper Guman recognized that opportunity and he opened up his ranch to a divorce ranch.
16:38And it wasn't long before even major celebrities were coming to places just like this.
16:49In 1948, Tule Springs was transformed from a dude ranch into a divorce ranch.
16:57At this time, ending a marriage was still very taboo and incredibly difficult to achieve.
17:04Divorce ranches were an attractive option to speed up the process.
17:11Nevada's liberal divorce law was a dramatic contrast to most of the rest of the country.
17:17In other states, you'd have to prove all these difficult things that your husband had abandoned you
17:22or that some kind of abuse had taken place or various indiscretions.
17:27For women especially, this was a difficult, arduous legal process.
17:32In Nevada, it was more like what today we would call a no-fault divorce.
17:36You could claim mental anguish or mental cruelty, irreconcilable differences,
17:41and this allowed the women to get out of a marriage that perhaps was not healthy.
17:47Nevada openly advertised themselves as the divorce capital of the U.S.
17:52Tule Springs' rural location made it an appealing choice.
17:56It was still very far from downtown Las Vegas, so you had your privacy.
18:01And I think that was one of the most important aspects of it.
18:04Women can enjoy themselves and relax before they get their divorce.
18:08There was a pool here.
18:10They could go fishing.
18:11There was also a shooting range.
18:15Yet divorce ranches were not an option for all women.
18:19A Nevada divorce required money, so this was really only accessible to women who were well-off.
18:26It could only really accommodate about a dozen people.
18:29So because this did really cater to a small clientele, it was very exclusive.
18:35In 1951, an up-and-coming movie star checked in.
18:40The space we are in right now, there was a young Hollywood starlet named Terry Moore.
18:45And we can just imagine that she's in this space here doing her makeup, maybe doing her hair, and getting
18:52ready for her day.
18:56Terry Moore was a relatively minor star.
19:00But her secret boyfriend was anything but obscure.
19:05So Terry Moore was here because she was having an affair with Howard Hughes.
19:12At the time, she was married to a football star named Glenn Davis, and the marriage didn't work out.
19:19Howard Hughes arranged for her to come here to seek her six-week residency in order to file for that
19:26quick Nevada divorce.
19:27Howard would have definitely visited her here, or even stayed with her here.
19:36But Moore did not stay for the full six weeks.
19:39It's rumored her husband, Glenn Davis, refused to agree to a quickie divorce,
19:45and wanted to use this as leverage to secure a big payout from Hughes.
19:50Their divorce was finally issued in 1952.
19:54But here is where things get complicated.
19:56As it turns out, when Terry Moore arrived at Tule Springs, she was already married to Howard Hughes.
20:05The two had had a secret wedding offshore years prior.
20:10So her marriage to Glenn Davis was in fact a bigamous marriage.
20:14And in the ultimate Hollywood plot twist, none of this became public knowledge until after Howard Hughes' death in 1976.
20:26In 1954, three years after Hughes and Moore left Tule Springs, its owner, Prosper Goeman, died.
20:35By 1959, the property was no longer being used as a divorce ranch.
20:40Divorce tourism to the state was in decline, and it made no financial sense to continue.
20:47After Prosper Goeman's death, the ranch had several owners.
20:51But fortunately, it eventually wound up in the hands of the state,
20:54which converted the ranch and the beautiful springs around it into a state park.
21:00In a fitting twist of irony, this site has done a full 180, as it's now a site to many
21:06weddings.
21:13In northeast France, 90 miles from Paris, stands a monument intended as a force for good that was hijacked by
21:22evil.
21:28These three vast wings of a building make up what looks like a palace fit for a king.
21:36The scale of this is grand, but when we look closely, we see that this is not a place of
21:42great riches.
21:44One empty unit after another is lined up around these courtyards.
21:49There must be hundreds of them in total.
21:51Only a few clues remain as to what these were.
21:55A narrow bathroom, remains of a kitchen.
21:58All of this suggests they were modest apartments.
22:02When constructed, this place was part of an innovative vision to improve workers' lives.
22:09In time, that dream turned into a nightmare.
22:15The German jackboot comes to this corner of France twice in the early 20th century.
22:23They arrived at these doors and the inhabitants' lives were plunged into chaos.
22:28During World War II, an individual act of extreme courage helped the Allies force out the Nazi occupiers.
22:35He knew he was taking his life into his hands, but that he had to do it to save the
22:43lives of others.
22:51In France are the remains of a revolutionary project inspired by an idealistic dream.
22:57The grandeur that we see today is all the result of one man's vision.
23:03He set out to change the way that French people worked and lived, but it had a modest beginning.
23:11In the early 19th century, Jean-Baptiste André Godin was a young apprentice traveling around France,
23:18learning the trade of iron production.
23:21While he perfected his craft, he couldn't help but notice the terrible conditions in the factories,
23:27and that workers around the country were suffering.
23:33Godin had grown up in relative poverty and was driven by a desire to help those less fortunate than himself.
23:42Amélie Godbear works at this site today.
23:45Part of her role is to make certain the memory of the man who built it is never forgotten.
23:53He knows what it is not to eat every day, not to have a nice and clean place to live
23:58in,
23:59not to go to school. His idea is to make the worker's life better.
24:05But before Godin could make his mark, he needed to make his own fortune.
24:12Godin develops a new way of making stoves. He builds a stove that can be cast in a single piece
24:21out of molten iron.
24:24The design was a hit and production boomed.
24:27And he's got a lot of money because he's got the monopoly on the stove market.
24:34By 1859, Godin had amassed enough wealth to finally make his dream of helping the people who work for
24:41him a reality. He set out building a collective settlement for his workers across the river from
24:48his factory. It's his own vision and he tries to transmit this philosophy. It's like an experiment.
24:58Godin called his utopian concept the Familiar Stare. It was also known as the Social Palace of Guise.
25:07This was going to be a genuine community focused not only on production, but on productive living.
25:17The centerpieces were these three great apartment blocks built around central courtyards.
25:23They could house 2,000 people in 500 apartments.
25:29There was a theater, a swimming pool, restaurants, stores, and a nursery. There was even a school that
25:38provided free mandatory education for the workers' children. It was more than a high standard living
25:45because even the richer people in the town wouldn't have that.
25:53Godin continued to perfect his workers' utopia for the next 25 years. In 1888, at the age of 71,
26:03he passed away. Fortunately, he died knowing his legacy was safe in the hands of his employees.
26:14Godin's creation would face a threat he could never have imagined. One that would bring the social
26:20experiment to a shuddering halt. In 1914, when Germany attacks France, their plan is a rapid advance,
26:30and they're going to take Paris. And that means the German army comes to Guise early in the First World
26:37War.
26:38About 200 factory workers were mobilized in defense. It's said that some of them were firing at the
26:45approaching army from the left wing of the residential complex. The battle would not last long. And after
26:51two days, the Germans overran the family stair and began a long occupation. Under German control,
27:01the theater was converted for use as a military prison. And the courtyard served as a hospital for
27:07wounded soldiers. A place that was built for peaceful communal family life turns into a place of misery.
27:18And then, when Germany exits the war with the armistice, it becomes possible to try to reestablish the dream
27:29here in Guise. The Familister's residents reclaimed their homes and eventually the factory began to operate
27:38once again. But the fragile peace did not last for long. Across the border, a malevolent power was
27:47mobilizing. On September the 1st, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and soon turned the full force of its army
27:56against France once more. During the Second World War, Germany ruthlessly exploited France for the Nazi
28:05war economy. This factory is repurposed to support the German war effort. For many of the workers and
28:15families, the memories of occupation were all too fresh. The residents of the Familister that worked in the
28:23factory were urged to collaborate or face brutal reprisals. They were instructed to continue making cast
28:30iron stoves, but this time chiefly for the German market. It rapidly became clear to a lot of French
28:41people. They could not accept the horror of Nazi occupation. So all over France, including here in Guise,
28:49those who were fit enough would become part of the French resistance.
28:54One man took the fate of the town into his own hands to keep a pathway open for its liberators.
29:06During World War II, in the French town of Guise, the factory workers that lived in the Familister were
29:13ordered to make cast iron stoves for the German market. They were compelled by their managers to
29:18collaborate. Some chose to fight back.
29:24One of the most well-known figures was Georges Jamard. He was a Familister resident, born here in 1897,
29:33the son of a worker at the Godin factories.
29:38Maxime Poitier is a historian at the Familister and an expert on Jamard's heroics during World War II.
29:48He distinguished himself here by saving the bridge you see behind me, the Familister Bridge,
29:54which the Germans intended to destroy.
29:58On June 6th, 1944, the Allied forces landed in Normandy. Over the coming months,
30:06Hitler's troops were forced back towards the German border. By the end of August 1944,
30:12the US army was edging closer to Guise.
30:19The Allies had liberated Paris, and all across France, the German army was retreating,
30:26sabotaging what it could as it went.
30:29Here in Guise, as the Germans were getting ready to leave, they packed the bridge with explosives,
30:35preparing to blow it up behind them.
30:38If they succeeded, it could slow down the Allied advance in this region.
30:43Georges Jamard went under the bridge and removed the explosives that the Germans had placed there.
30:49He unfastened them, causing the explosives to fall into the Oise River.
30:55When the American forces arrived, they were able to cross the bridge over the Oise,
31:00and liberate the town, thanks to the bravery of one young man.
31:05At the end of the war, Godard's factory reopened, but its days as a worker's paradise were numbered.
31:13In 1970, it was purchased by a cookware company, who had no need for the Familister.
31:20The apartments were sold to private owners, and by the early 2000s, many of them were abandoned.
31:32Today, after much careful restoration, visitors can walk the rooms and hallways of the Familister,
31:39and see Godin's vision in all its glory.
31:42The school and theatre are still in use, and there are even plans to convert one wing into a hotel.
31:56In Sicily, an isolated settlement charts the tragic tale of a rural paradise forever lost.
32:09Agricultural fields stretch for miles around and with mountains off in the distance.
32:15It's beautiful, but eerily quiet.
32:20In the center of all this rises a strange collection of crumbling buildings.
32:24The lines are symmetrical, simple, and clean-cut.
32:28The architecture is unusual for rural Sicily.
32:31On each of the buildings are signs that indicate their original purpose.
32:44But it's peculiar to label each building in such a functional way.
32:50Which suggests, whoever built this was trying to impose some kind of order.
32:55Created to revitalize Sicily's countryside, this settlement was part of the vision
33:00of Italy's famous fascist dictator.
33:03But none of this explains why it's abandoned.
33:07For many years, this was a peaceful home.
33:10Until a disastrous event began its slow demise.
33:14The final nail in this village's coffin would be a tragic descent into violent crime.
33:27The final nail in this village of Italy's place.
33:28Living nearby, I happened to drive this way and always have a look.
33:33It brings back my childhood.
33:35Because to us, this was the center of the world.
33:40Luigi Salazzo lived in this rural village for almost 40 years.
33:47When I say this place was paradise, the definition is perfect.
33:53We had everything. There was nothing missing.
34:00The feelings I have are both happiness and sadness.
34:04We were the last family to leave this village.
34:11To understand why this place exists,
34:13you'd have to go back quite some time into southern Italy's history.
34:17Prior to the 20th century, most of Sicily's agricultural land had been divided up into
34:22vast private estates owned by local nobility.
34:26This system of feudal landed estates persisted well into the 1800s.
34:33And at the bottom of this social economic pyramid were the penniless peasants
34:38that did the back-breaking labor on the land itself.
34:41When an economic crisis hit Sicily in the 1880s and made things even harder, people started leaving.
34:51Over the next 30 years, around 1 million Sicilians emigrated, many to the United States.
34:58The mass exodus left Italy without the means to produce enough food for the remaining population.
35:05Something drastic needed to be done before it was too late.
35:12Political upheaval and World War I delayed things.
35:15Then, in 1922, Benito Mussolini and his fascist party forced their way into power.
35:21Mussolini's ideology was ultra-nationalist and all about self-sufficiency.
35:26He didn't want Italy to have to rely on any other country for food.
35:30At the beginning of 1940, they started building eight new villages spread across the island.
35:39Mussolini established this village, like many others, to stimulate people to cultivate the land,
35:46to make people work the land, as he was aware there was a need for places where the farmers could
35:52live.
35:59This one was called Borgo Schiro. Borgo, meaning village, and Schiro, the surname of a fascist martyr killed by left
36:09-wing agitators in the 1920s.
36:12On December 18, 1940, it was officially unveiled during a grand opening ceremony.
36:21The village was designed to have everything the growing community needed,
36:24and the goal was to encourage peasant families to move into the farmhouses that dotted the fields.
36:36My grandfather, who used to work in the fields, lived a quiet life.
36:42I know they were happy here with all the other families working the fields.
36:52But soon, the government was thrown into chaos, as Mussolini's alliance with Hitler brought World War II to Sicily in
37:001943.
37:03When peace was restored to the island, the new government continued the land reform policy,
37:09and Borgo Schiro could finally meet its potential for prosperity.
37:16One of my uncles had the barber shop.
37:20Another one was a sacristan.
37:22And my mother and my father had the general store.
37:27I would help run the shop.
37:29Gosh, I would steal some candies from my dad.
37:32Every now and then, us kids would put some in our pockets, and out we went.
37:41At Borgo Schiro's peak in the 1950s, around 100 people lived in the village and its surrounding farmhouses.
37:51Life was simple, and it was hard work.
37:54But for many, it was idyllic.
37:57But just as life seemed perfect, a catastrophe would hit Borgo Schiro and usher in its downfall.
38:06By the late 1950s, the Italian village of Borgo Schiro had developed into a rural paradise for its residents.
38:15Little did they know, disaster was just around the corner.
38:20In 1968, a violent earthquake struck the valley of Beliche.
38:25And the epicenter was a mere 17 miles from the village of Borgo Schiro.
38:33The first earthquake was around lunchtime.
38:37Us kids had already eaten, and we were playing outside.
38:41All of a sudden, the ground started shaking.
38:46I remember, to shelter, we came to the church.
38:51I remember the windows shaking, but they didn't crack.
38:55Not even one.
39:00The powerful tremor, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale,
39:05devastated the Beliche Valley area of southwest Sicily.
39:09Four towns were completely destroyed, leaving 100,000 homeless and killing or injuring over 1,200 people.
39:19The region was struggling, and many families left in the aftermath of the earthquake.
39:25This included the residents of Borgo Schiro.
39:33Some houses here collapsed, and a lot of people were forced to leave and emigrate north.
39:40I remember every single one of the families that were here and left.
39:46Because we were a big family.
39:49We were in harmony.
39:54But Luigi and his parents refused to leave.
39:58This was their home, where three generations of Salazzos had built their lives.
40:04And by the late 1980s, in a village where around 100 people used to live, they were the last family
40:12left.
40:14But living in a virtually abandoned town has its risks, and Borgo Schiro became a target for criminals.
40:22One day, two kids robbed our place when my mother was alone.
40:27They threatened her at gunpoint and kicked her.
40:31She was left traumatized and decided to leave.
40:36We might still be here if that hadn't happened.
40:43After the Salazzos departed in 1995, Borgo Schiro's abandonment was complete.
40:51Ever since, it's continued to crumble.
40:58There are currently no plans to demolish Borgo Schiro, so you can happily walk around its ghostly streets
41:05and bear witness to an extraordinary remnant of Italy's fascist past.
41:11It surely represents a style of life that doesn't exist anymore.
41:17Nowadays, our society is a steamroller.
41:21We used to live calmly, so peacefully here.
41:25Tranquillo, calmo.
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