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The lives of great men | Aleks Farrugia
The problem that ‘great’ men pose to the historian is that greatness begets mythology or, to be more exact, ‘mythistory’
12 July 2021, 7:30am
Former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff with his wife Moyra
That a historian is concerned with the life of a ‘great’ man is no historical innovation. If anything, modern historians have shifted their gaze towards the ‘lesser’ men and women, people who for a long time were neglected and considered ‘insignificant’ to the bigger scheme of History (with emphasis on the big H).
Take an example from our own history: we still speak of Gorg Borg Olivier “getting us independence” and of Mintoff as “the father of the nation” with little study, if any, of the people who actually supported them and made their achievements possible – say, the 51,000 Labour ‘suldati tal-azzar’ (‘soldiers of steel’) which, had it not been for their support and activism, Mintoff would have been as muc
The PN wanted to give free reign to the Church over “the duty and the right to teach which principles are right and which are wrong.” So it does come as a surprise that Ragonesi says “as a principle the PN never wanted for religion and politics to mix.”
He does however concede the PN used to have members who mentioned religion during their meetings. Ragonesi continues that Borg Olivier and himself, who always took part in “principal meetings during the elections and even during the integration transition, never wanted to take advantage of the interdett.”
But seeing that the MLP leader Dom Mintoff was Archbishop Gonzi’s bete noire, wasn’t it inevitable the PN would gain a considerable advantage? “That Gonzi considered Borg Olivier the designate leader of the Gunta – this I do not accept,” Ragonesi insists. His justification being that Gonzi was always against Malta’s independence. According to his faithful secretary, Borg Olivier never uttered a word in favou