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vallini: eh sì; ricordo il grande entusiasmo con cui seguivamo i lavori del vaticano ii e accoglievamo e studiavamo i suoi documenti.
vallini: ah yes; i remember the great enthusiasm with which we followed the workings of vatican ii and we welcomed and studied its documents.

sino a qualche decina d' anni fa, infatti, accoglievamo rifugiati cileni, rifugiati russi che sfuggivano da regimi dittatoriali, da persecuzioni inflitte dai loro governanti.
i am also satisfied that our committee has taken into account the new forms that persecution can take. a few decades ago we were welcoming chilean and soviet refugees fleeing from dictatorships and persecution at the hands of their own governments.