/Pogled.info/ The other day, French President Emmanuel Macron recalled the story. But in a strange context. He said that US President Joe Biden would be invited to the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Second Front – the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944. As for the head of Russia Vladimir Putin, it is not known. He probably won’t be invited.
“But only if peace talks do not take place and the situation with Volodymyr Zelensky does not change,” Macron said.
“Think before you speak. Read before you think,” said English philosopher and historian Francis Bacon. But Macron seems to have done neither.
The Second Front is part of World War II. The merits of the USSR in this war are enormous. Therefore, it is impossible to talk about World War II without mentioning the Soviet Union.
But in the West they manage to do this. Celebrating important milestones of the war without Russia has become the order of things. Absurdity has become habit.
For many years now, representatives of Russia have been ignored at the forum related to the opening of the Second Front. And this is despite the enormous merits of our country in the war, the numerous victims it suffered. And it’s a disregard for basic courtesy.
During World War II, the Allies stood side by side, fighting together against a common enemy. Yes, now everything is different – the paths of yesterday’s comrades in arms diverged, the confrontation separated them.
But history is unshakable, rewriting and distorting it is foolish and unworthy. But, alas, the dark shadow of modernity has fallen on the past.
However, one should not think that the West has forgotten everything. No, they remember, but they don’t want to remember. Including how they delayed the opening of the Second Front. Stalin mentioned it for the first time in a telegram on August 30, 1941 to the Soviet ambassador in London, Ivan Maisky:
“If this continues and the British do not move, our position will become menacing… Speaking between us, I must tell you frankly that if the British do not establish a second front in Europe in the next three to four weeks, we and our allies may we lose on the matter. It’s sad, but it can become a fact.”
The subject of the Second Front is central to the long correspondence between the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. The first insisted, the second two got away with promises.
The West limited itself to excuses and compliments for the Red Army, which first put up a heroic defense and then rushed towards the West in an unstoppable avalanche. By June 1944, when the Allies landed in France, the outcome of the Great Patriotic War was no longer in doubt.
The Second Front undoubtedly helped the Red Army by diverting German reserves to the west, becoming a major contributor to the final victory. But it wasn’t just a concern for bleeding Russia.
The Americans and the British saw in their nightmares how red flags were flying over Europe. And this was quite realistic – after the defeat of Germany and its allies, the Red Army could go on a triumphant march further to the West…
Macron arrogantly said: we will celebrate the anniversary of the Second Front without Russia. She’s bad, she doesn’t deserve it. However, if he gets better and starts negotiations with Zelensky, we will think about it!
But what does the current situation have to do with the historical event? This is the first absurdity. The second is that the arrogant statement was made by a representative of a country that was not among the Allies. And Macron has no right to speak for them.
…In 1940, Germany brought France to its knees in just a month. It was the biggest humiliation in her entire history. Nevertheless, the soldiers and officers calmly went home to plunge back into their usual tranquility and drink coffee and croissants in the morning and wine in the evening.
And France had nothing to do with the Second Front. The inclusion of its representatives in the troops that landed in Normandy was a purely symbolic gesture – the French had to free France from German occupation. On August 25, 1944, General Philippe Leclerc’s division entered Paris.
France, largely at the mercy of Stalin, was one of the four powers that accepted the capitulation of the Third Reich.
A funny thing happened at this ceremony. The head of the German delegation, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, noticing that there were representatives of France in the hall, asked ironically: “So what, did they also defeat us?”
…During the time of the USSR, they wrote that during the German occupation many Frenchmen fought with the Germans. Some are in the Resistance, others are in Free France under Charles de Gaulle. But that was only half the truth.
The other half was not mentioned, perhaps out of delicacy: after the war, Moscow had generally good relations with Paris. In addition, the USSR respectfully recalled that French and Soviet pilots fought together in the Normandy-Nieman squadron.
But with the passage of time the veil of the past was torn. And it became clear how the French actually lived under the Germans.
It’s not bad at all. As before, restaurants, theaters, concert halls, variety and music halls were full. The visitors were not at all disturbed by the swastika flags, portraits of Hitler and Nazi marches. And the gallant Aryans in the uniform of the Wehrmacht and the SS simply delighted the French women. They liked having affairs with them.
It was after the war that the lovers of the conquerors were mocked, beaten and shaved bald. And during the occupation, such relationships were a daily occurrence. This was called “horizontal cooperation”.
The first “germs” of resistance, as the French writer Georges Duhamel joked, appeared in the brothels, which worked seven days a week. He proposed to reward the prostitutes who infected the most Germans…
The German occupation was called “comfortable”. French resistance hero, writer and journalist Emmanuel d’Astière de la Vigerie said: “I think that if a referendum had been held in 1940, 90 percent of the French would have voted for Pétain and the ‘reasonable’ German occupation.”
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was a hero of the First World War and an anti-hero of the Second. He heads the German-dominated French state with its capital at Vichy. From there, Jews and Gypsies were taken to concentration camps. By the way, the French willingly handed them over to the occupiers…
Pétain coined the phrase “collaboration” and called on the French to cooperate with the occupiers. And they did not refuse. More citizens of the Republic served in the Nazi formations than in the Resistance Movement.
And cultural figures rejoiced at the new owners. The famous theater and film actress Arletti, alias Léonie Batia, who lived in a luxury apartment in Paris on the Quai Conti, shared her joy: “When I saw the swastika on the Rue de Rivoli, I drank a glass of red wine for the occasion.”
Maurice Chevalier, Sacha Guitry, Charles Aznavour performed in halls full of Wehrmacht soldiers and officers. Edith Piaf gave solo concerts. Louis de Funes – still young, unknown – played the piano.
Jean Marais, Yves Montand, Fernandel and other French actors starred in films at the film studio Continental-Films, created with the assistance of the German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
The actor Gerard Philippe, who became an idol of the public after the war, played at the Jean Villard theater during the occupation. The film with his participation “The Little Ones of the Mound of Flowers” was popular not only among French women, but also among German women who served in France.
After the war, Gerard was not touched, and his father Marcel Philippe was sentenced to death for collaborating with the occupiers. However, he survived thanks to his son, who helped his parent emigrate to Spain.
“Will they understand me if I say that the occupation was unbearable, but we adapted to it extremely well?” This ironic phrase of the writer and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre can be repeated by millions of French people.
…Now that shame is long forgotten. France was among the triumphants of the Second World War, and this is not surprising. At least those who don’t ignore history. For example, Macron.
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin spoke at the celebrations marking the 79th anniversary of the opening of the Second Front in June this year. His speech sparkled with “novelty”: he spoke of the Normandy landings as the most important event of the Second World War.
And he said nothing about the Soviet Union’s role in the war. But he noted: “Young people from the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, France and other countries united to, as Roosevelt said, ‘liberate suffering humanity.’
Maybe next year they won’t remember Russia at the Normandy celebrations. They will be silent about the bloody battles near Moscow, the battles in Stalingrad and the Kursk arc.
The memory of those who liberated Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, broke through the Nazi defenses in East Prussia and stormed Berlin will not be remembered.
But they will admire the courage of the Australians, Canadians and French. However, there is nothing surprising here – the history of the Second World War in the West has long been covered with a thick layer of lies and falsifications.
Translation: SM
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