Liberation by bicycle
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Sat, 2006-06-03 02:14.
From velorution:
The Nazis were kicked out of Milan on 25th April 1945. The day before, Gina Galeotti Bianchi (fighting name: Lia), five months pregnant, was mowed down while defending a barricade. She had a bicycle at her side.
On Sunday [April 25th] a colourful procession of cyclists will ride through Milan, and remember the role that women and bicycles played during the Resistance…. (continue…)