The polemic about wounded soldiers from Ukraine is an unworthy spectacle. The war provides the material for domestic political intrigues. The scope of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has simply not yet arrived in Bern.
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The red cross on the Bourbaki panorama: In the federal ideal memory, neutral Switzerland is armed, helpful and engaged in humanitarian work.
Thousands of soldiers stream across the border, exhausted, humiliated, some of them wounded. Between February 1st and 3rd, 1871, 87,000 soldiers of the French Bourbaki army were interned in Switzerland. They were previously defeated by Prussian troops and cut off from the rest of France. The red cross in action is clearly visible on the monumental Bourbaki panorama in Lucerne, which retells the story in great detail.
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