by AGOSTINO COLLA
The magazine Isonzo Soča, founded in 1989 thanks to its creator and editor-in-chief Dario Stasi, ideally and economically supported by the publisher Transmedia in the person of Boris Peric, has opened, in complicated years full of expectations and hopes, a window on a known horizon, but unknown and misunderstood to most. She succeeded in her intent to make known a border reality until then ignored by most politicians, but not by the people who had always lived and shared here, precisely because they were mixed with dreams, and expectations. Not just a frontier magazine, therefore, but an instrument of knowledge and openness to the other, never so considered and known until then. A magazine that has had and has the merit of making known, to those who read it, the history, geography, arts and environment of these lands.
Lands unknown and little investigated to most, which then became, with the magazine, over the years, a means to understand the events of these places over time, discovering at the same time their richness, starting from the most remote antiquities up to the most recent history. A tool for reading our territory that had never had a specific interest in its enhancement. A journey that dates back to 35 years of historical, geopolitical and social investigations on a territory that has always shown its mixed-language value, where the people who have always insisted and lived in these territories have applied, perhaps even unconsciously, high forms of civil coexistence given by the human and social relationships that have been intertwined here over the centuries and that, especially during the cycle of the dramatic ‘900 they had to deal, in spite of themselves, with a long history of mourning and oppression due to Nazi-Fascist totalitarianism on the one hand and, after the Second World War, by the accession of Yugoslavia first to the Soviet bloc, then surpassed in belonging to the Non-Aligned bloc starting from 1948. Here, in these places, peaceful and constructive coexistence was daily bread. Here family ties, affections and work have always created those opportunities for civil coexistence that have, in fact, built the true fabric of our common territory over time.