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It is not the first time that a child, concerned about Santa Claus, turns to a politician. Sixty years earlier Tommaso Z., 5, from Cesano Maderno (Monza Brianza), who asked Giuseppe Conte to guarantee old Santa Claus “a special self-certification to deliver gifts to all the children of the world”, Michelle Rochon, 8 years ago, he wrote a letter from his Michigan to John Kennedy: “Stop the Russians, please. If they bomb the North Pole they will kill Santa Claus ”.
“Don’t worry, I spoke to him yesterday and he’s fine. It will circulate again this Christmas, ”the US president replied, more succinct than our prime minister. It was October 28, 1961. Two days later, the Soviets dropped the Tsar’s bomb, the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever tested, on the island of New Zemlya, beyond the Arctic Circle. It was six times more devastating than the one in Hiroshima, the mushroom cloud reached a height of 40 miles and the lightning bolt was seen from a thousand miles away. The blast wave ripped through wooden houses in countries hundreds of kilometers away and also damaged windows in Finland.
The current circumstances are serious (virus), but not so dramatic. And Conte did not give up doing some propaganda by posting on Facebook his long response to Thomas, already a literate prodigy: “I want to reassure you, Santa Claus has assured me that he already has an international self-certification: he can travel everywhere and give gifts to everyone. children of the world. Without any limitation. Then he confirmed that he always wears the mask and maintains the appropriate distance to protect himself and everyone he meets. I think the idea that he finds under the tree, in addition to hot milk and biscuits, also sanitizing liquid. A good scrub will allow you to disinfect your hands very well and leave safely “.
At this point, poor Tommaso is already asleep, stunned by the prime minister’s muteness. But she continues: “I’m glad to know that you and your colleagues scrupulously respect all the rules, to protect mom and dad, grandparents and loved ones as well. That is why I tell you that it will not be necessary to specify in the letter to Santa that you were fine: I told him. I told him that this year in Italy has been a very difficult year and that you and all the children have been adorable. I also heard that you want to ask Santa to get rid of the coronavirus. Don’t miss the opportunity to ask for an extra gift. We adults can drive away the coronavirus, all together. So you and your teammates can come back soon to play free and happy and hug everyone. Carefree as always.
On social media, of course, the irony was unleashed. Also because children seem to have become graphomaniacs in recent times: a certain Manuel de Settimo Torinese would have sent his personal solidarity to Matteo Salvini for the Catania trial on the Gregoretti ship.
Then Luca Bizzarri wrote a parody of a letter: «Dear Luca, I am Adelmo, a 6 month old baby, and I have a question for you. Do you think our prime minister really thinks we’re all balls? Because that other man had already tried, do you remember, the one who said that a child had written him a letter because they wanted to try it? And I thought it’s alright, come on, it’s a little naughty, it fits. Now this man tries too, but makes a very trivial mistake: a 5-year-old does not write like that. To see how a 5-year-old writes, you need to read your chancellor’s Instagram posts. Hello, say hello to Santa Claus, who may not exist, but neither does the anti-Covid pendant, the sense of State, respect for the institutional position, a decent opposition, a sense of ridicule ”. Bizzarri also posted his own response: “Dear Adelmo, how to blame you. But if you can write to someone else that I can’t stand fake babies. I can hardly bear the real ones. “
In reality, democratic presidents and dictators have always received letters from children, more or less fed by their parents. Claretta Petacci wrote to her idol Benito Mussolini at age 14, in 1926, after Violet Gibson’s attack on the duce that had impressed her. She would only become his lover ten years later.
There were also innumerable requests for intercession, such as this one sent on January 5, 1942 by three girls to Anna Maria, Mussolini’s daughter, for her to make three postcards with her signed portrait: “We are in Rome for a while and then we return to our dear Sicily”. . We are proud to be on the front lines to face enemy offenses, and we gladly endure some sacrifices so that our beloved homeland soon wins. We want to send you three photos of your great dad so that he will have the pleasure of putting his signature that we will keep as a dear memory ”.
The story of Engelsina Markizova, photographed in 1936 at the age of six with an affable and smiling Stalin, is more tragic. She was the daughter of a communist leader from the Soviet Far East. The photo was so successful that it was published in the regime’s newspapers with the words “Thank you, Comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood.” From the photo even a statue was taken, erected in Moscow and titled “Stalin, the friend of children.”
Engelsina was able to tell the true story of her life only at the age of 60, in 1990, after the collapse of communism. A year after that photo, his father, Sergei Markizov, was arrested as an alleged agent of the Japanese and shot. His mother, who did not know about the execution, made the boy write a pathetic letter to Stalin, to remind him of the photo and beg for mercy towards a true communist. The dictator responded by also arresting Engelsina’s mother, who was exiled to Kazakhstan as an enemy of the people and died at the age of 32, probably murdered by the secret police. Engelsina was entrusted to an aunt. His identity in the famous photo was changed to that of another boy, Tajik Mamlakat Nakhangova.
But the main recipients of children’s letters are their idols of music and cinema. Gigliola Cinquetti has deposited her archive with 150 thousand letters from admirers and admirers in the Historical Museum of Trento. Here’s one of the funniest, sent by thirteen-year-old RS on December 8, 1966: “I wrote you this letter to tell you that you do want him to help me go with you to where you are, because I would like to write to sing, and I’m I’m sure you will accept it. “
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