Perhaps not everyone knows that from the end of 1944 to the beginning of 1945, South-East Sicily was upset by a series of riots, which resulted in real rebellions, following the decision of the infant United Kingdom of South to recall arms are a lever of young people who have now considered the war closed for a couple of years. There was certainly the same importance for a grain tax, namely the establishment of so-called "Granai del Popolo", which struck the provinces of Ragusa and Syracuse more. These events are remembered today as the Moti del non si parte. The most serious episodes were certainly those of Comiso and Ragusa. In Comiso, a city today known for its new airport, between 5 and 6 January 1945, the carabinieri were captured by about five hundred people who also forced the police to surrender. They proclaimed the Republic of Comiso directed by a popular government, with both the public health committee, internal order teams and food distribution at consortium prices. On January 11, however, under the threat of an allied bombing of the city, the insurgents surrendered. Despite the agreements, all the rebels, about 300, were arrested and confined to Ustica and Lipari.


On January 4, 1945, at Ragusa, a young woman, Maria Occhipinti, who later became a member of the Italian Communist Party, headed for the spontaneous popular resistance movement of the call to arms and formed in largely by moms, wives and young people. Unmistakable of danger, Mary Occhipinti, five months pregnant, lay in front of the trucks of the army truck with the young predators of the weapons that were about to be brought coactively to the military district. Thus, a real revolt began in Ragusa. In the following days, after an army officer killed a sacristan of the Church of St. John, the protest of Ragusa became a real insurgency, and was largely guided by militant socialists and communists. The final budget was 19 dead and 63 injured. In the end, many of the protagonists were arrested and deported to Ustica's criminal colony. Among them were Maria Occhipinti who, on the 8th of March 1945, coincided with the women's party, gave birth to a little girl. Over the years, these episodes were brought under the responsibility of fascists, separatists or communists. Responsibility is only to be attributed to the disastrous conditions where the island came and the general population's insight after the island's strong years of war and occupation, first German, then Anglo-American.