The voice of France, the UN and Russia,
an open letter to Monsieur le Président de la République
Monsieur le Président de la République
Fascisme
is reemerging everywhere in
Europe, singularly in countries which have been freed from the USSR
where powerful and dark forces are using NéoNazism as an
ideological vector for their national emancipation and their
territorial sovereignty .In these circles and beyond them, the
Ukrainian crisis, which is politically and diplomatically
overexploited to undermine the Russian Federation is used as a
pretext for multiple attempts to rehabilitate the Third Reich,
especially in the Baltic Countries, where monuments commemorating the
1945 victory are often desecrated with the covert or overt complicity
of the concerned governments.
The
Western world is in no way immune
from these dangerous overflows. In defiance of it's historical
status, the European Union tolerates within itself, political
movements which have been able, with impunity, to send to the EU
Parliament, legally elected deputies, although self styled Nazis.
In face of this situation, which is fed
and worsened by a never ending economical crisis on the old
continent, Russia submit every year to the general assembly of the
United Nations, a resolution calling for the refusal of « this
glorification of Nazis and their collaborators who, waiving Swastika
banners and marching with their right arms held up, are overtly
promoting xenophobia and racial superiority.
Unfortunately, The United States of
America, Canada and the Marshall Islands, systematically oppose this
text and the European Union - among which is France-, choosing in that
respect to renew with the disastrous spirit of Munich, chose to
refrain.Opponants and abstentions, put forward as an excuse...
Respect for freedom of expression, to justify their decisions. Under
the same pretext, they block the passing of similar decisions within
the OSCE. This attitude is pitiful and dangerous and can be
considered as a signed blank paper for the Fascists to keep on with
their criminal activities.
This year, the pretext put forward for
a 'no' vote or abstention to the resolution, is the Ukrainian crisis
and the « annexation » of Crimea. Putin should be made
to understand that the West won't tolerate an expansionist Russia.
This is of course only a pretext because in November of 2013, as the
Ukrainian crisis was just unfolding, their was no separatists claims
of any sort in Eastern Ukraine or in Crimea. The vote had been the
same. Most noticeable is the 2010 vote, during which the Russian
President was Medvedev, known to be closer to the West than the
actual President.
The
fact that the Russian diplomatic
initiatives are thus subjected to contempt is unacceptable. The
tremendous death toll paid by the USSR during the second world war,
morally forbid it. Resistants in Europe and especially in France, know
what they owe to the Red Army. Without the decisive victories over
Hitler, the world battle for liberty wouldn't have been possible and
the allies would have never landed in Italy nor on the Coast of
Normandie. Must it be reminded, that on the D Day, June the 6th
of 1944, the Werhmacht was collapsing everywhere on the East front
and that Hitler had thus already lost the war ? Must it be
reminded that, without the Soviets sacrifices, France would have
never recovered it's freedom ? Must it be reminded that without
Moscow, Stalingrad and Koursk's victories – the mains Nazis
military defeats- the world could never have freed itself from fascism
and the United Nations Organisation would have never existed ?
We
would also want to remind you,
mister President, that during the spring and summer of 1942, the General
De Gaulle had, in vain, tried to persuade the allies to open
a « second front ». If the General De Gaulle had been
heard, millions of people in the Soviet Union and in the
concentration camps, wouldn't have lost their lives. Must we remind
you that the landing in France as suggested by the General de
Gaulle, was replaced by a landing in North Africa and that the first
version of the now famous American « regime change » took
place at that time, the Americans having chosen the General Giraud
instead of De Gaulle.
France, which as a member of the
Security Council, have a right of veto, must not forget history and
the lessons it teaches. France must not forget the responsibilities
which have been bestowed to her by the fact of having been able to
sit at the winners table. France must not forget that without the
resistance movement, without the commitment of the General De
Gaulle saving the honor of our country from London, France wouldn't
enjoy the diplomatic weight and prestige which it has acquired.
Consequently, it's voice, which is heard, when relying on historical
principles, used and exalted by the National Resistance Council, it's
voice must be heard in the fight against the rebirth of Nazism, which
is to say, in fact, it's own values. Values that you invoked during
your multiple public interventions, especially during the
commemorations of the landings in Normandie and Provence.
As a Head of the State, it thus belongs
to you to break the guilty and spineless caution of a Europe which
flimsiness in foreign affairs never stops to tarnish the brilliance.
Consequently, the signatories request
from you, that next year, the signature of France be added to those
of the nations having already backed the resolution of the Federation
of Russia.
Armand Conan, Résistant, membre du
Comité Départemental du Morbihan
René Jassaud, Résistant, ravitailleur
du maquis « camp Robert » dans le Var
Colette Lacroix, Résistante, membre du
réseau SOE « pimento » dans l'Ain
Antoine Payet, Résistant, membre du
groupe de St Fons dans le Rhône
Paul Raybaud, membre du réseau Camp
Robert dans le Var
