Patriot's Certificate

The Patriot’s Certificate (in Italian Certificato al Patriota) is a document that was given to the partisans of the Italian resistance movement during and after the Second World War, firmed by the British field marshal Harold Alexander, commander of Allied forces in Italy, attestating the active collaboration with the Allied forces against the Axis forces.

The Patriot’s Certificate given to the Italian partisans

One of first of them was awarded to Nello Iacchini who, on August 26, 1944, saved the life of the Marshal himself and the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a visit to Italy.[1]

Among those who received the certificate are Raffaele Cadorna, Jr., a World War I veterans who commanded Italian resistance forces against Wehrmacht forces in northern Italy in World War II.[2]

The text

In the name of the governments and peoples of the United Nations, we thank [NAME AND PSEUDONYM] for having fought the enemy in the battle fields on service in the patriot ranks, among these men, who have use the arms for the triumph of liberty, developing offensive operations, doing acts of sabotage, giving military information. With their courage, and their pluck, the Italian Patriots have greatly contributed to the liberation of Italy and the great cause of all free men. In the re-born Italy, the owners of this certificate will be considered as patriots, who have fought for the honour and for the Liberty. H.R. Alexander, Field-Marshal, Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre.

gollark: I mean, there's the issue of... their disregard for human rights? I care about that even if they don't affect other countries too badly directly.
gollark: It works better on philosophers, since you can steal their wallet while they're distracted thinking about it.
gollark: They probably can't/won't eternally torture you, but there's a *possibility* of that infinite harm which is reduced by giving them £100, and if you accept the Pascal's Wager logic you should do that.
gollark: There's actually another similar thing, Pascal's *Mugging*, in which someone comes up to you and says "give me £100 or I will eternally torture you after you die".
gollark: But there are an infinitely large number of possible gods, and some do weirder things like "punish/reward entirely at random", "have no interest whatsoever in humanity", "punish people who believe in other gods", and all that, and Pascal's Wager just *ignores* those.

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