Mercato Saraceno (Forlì). Polish soldiers in a jeep block a partisan procession, seizing red flags. A firefight ensues, killing Polish corporal Tadeusz Slowik and wounding two non-commissioned officers. The soldiers of the Second Polish Army Corps, who fought for the liberation of Italy, all former Gulag prisoners, cannot bear the sight of the red flags, hearing chants of Stalin, and the symbols of the hammer and sickle, which for them symbolize the suffering of the Gulag and the partition of their country between the Soviets and the Germans. Other incidents occur in Bologna and the Marche region, leading to the intervention of the mayor of Bologna (a communist), who demands that the Poles be locked up in barracks. In 1947 they were all sent by De Gasperi (who was trying to make peace with Togliatti and therefore wanted to get rid of the inconvenient anti-communist Poles) to other European countries (especially to England), since almost no one wanted to return to Sovietized Poland.
