April 25 remembers the end of Nazi-Fascism and the living bond between Resistance, Constitution and democracy in our present. It might look, at first glance, like one of those dates that survive out of habit. A flag, a speech, a few songs carried through a square and then folded away until the following year. Yet April 25 does not quite behave like that. It resists reduction. In Italy, Liberation Day marks the collapse of a regime that had turned obedience into a daily exercise. Not only a dictatorship of uniforms and slogans, but a system that trained people to accept hierarchy as nature, silence as prudence, fear as method. The…