#Anglo Franco

[lordwilde]

Celine Men Summer 25 aka A lover of Oscar Wilde meets Bright Young Things meets Saltburn.

[prussianmemes]

the glassy eyed 1000 yard western euro stare you get when you tell the people sitting in you and your visibly ill girlfriend's seats that they're in your reserved seats and they go "ach... ja but your reservation is not written here there is no r-"

excuse me you germano-frankish beady eyed cocksucker, we're on a čd train and my čd ticket shows us as having these seats, and your rootless ugly white and black deutschebahn fart app doesn't even have seat reservations because despite your national stereotype you have the same organization and respect for order a gypsy does.

don't give me your "mon dieu et iz not written here" - the train is chronically overcrowded because your third world national rail company can't book properly, you've been sitting for 3 hours from shitggart and have only been looking at your insta stories while pretending to study pierre von shittenlips. i have a visibly ill and weak passenger with me but beyond the former iron curtain, despite your supposed cosmopolitan love for all, you're like the rats in the paradise experiment who actually just viciously serve themselves first above all.

and the nerve to snicker and chat amongst yourselves once we get off... after very clearly sitting in our seats...: TOTAL WEST EURO CONTINENTAL DEATH.....

i believe now in celto-slavic racial superiority

[illustratus]

The Battle of Texel 1673 by Jan de Quelery

[dudeshusband]

stop calling me out as an italianfucker pinterest

[awwhawkeye]

Gee, dipping my toes on f1blr again and I'm reminded why I backed away from it. Lawson only racing hard against hispanics is not diva, it's weird 👀

[argentinesunshine]

well, it's mild because apart from the homophobes (which sadly still exist everywhere), we don't really see anything negative about being part of the community (actually, way too many people here feel comfortable making every single famous person gay/bi, including the kid - it's super invasive imo). I myself am bi and still use that joke, my friends do too and they are mostly either gay or bi. I am two years older than he is, and I was nine when we legalised same-sex marriages in our country, so i would say that most people i know don't even think about it in any particular way (well, now we do, because shitty times and all of that). But he must do better, understand that because we understand his jokes and context (especially because he was talking about another argentine), that doesn't mean it will be accepted/understood everywhere. I can't speak on his behalf, and maybe he is everything people are assuming about him now, but yeah, I just wanted to give my two cents.

Honestly, our humour can be too aggressive for those who are not from our country - but most of the time it has not actual heat, it's just banter (did i write that word right?).

we are on the "making every celebrity gay/bi" website, so i totally get that. and i get joking amongst friends ("banter" is the perfect word for it!) especially if you're both part of the same minority. but yes, he has to realize the scope of his words now, and the subtext behind them. (casual homophobia is still homophobia.) if nothing else, don't freaking do it on camera 😖

thank you for your perspective! 😊

[bouillefriend]

Rly rly rly excited abt the domme i met last night :) wahoo

[corneille-moisie]

WHAT IF

i changed my name to Corvidae

[bitterfucked]

my takeaway from Abigail (2024) is that every team should have a Quebecker. new standard team archetype, up there with archetypes like The Muscle or The Hacker.

you're getting introduced to the group and there's just this fucker off to the side drinking ten ones and saying shit like "if you talk shit about Céline Dion i will give you the hurt with a cheese grater"

[atticfish]

is it insane for my first job interview ever to be a group interview conducted in french?? bc i am shitting my pantaloons

[thelostgirl21]

How I'd imagine Trump's attempt to assimilate Quebec into the USA would go...

Seriously, Canada is an officially bilingual country, home to many Franco-Manitobans, Franco-Ontarians, Franco-Albertans, Acadians, etc.

And there is one province, Quebec, where the only official language is French, that makes for 23% of the whole population of the freaking country!

Many of us barely know a single word of English (neither of my parents spoke English when I was a kid, my 14-year-old godson doesn't speak English, a girl in my bellydance class yesterday had no clue what the title of the song "Madness" meant...)!

Ever since the British Empire took the Nouvelle-France (New-France) from us by force back in 1759, we've been bitterly and stubbornly refusing to become linguistically and culturally assimilated into the Anglo-Saxon culture.

As a French Canadian, I've fiercely been taught, pretty much from birth, to fight for my language and my culture, perceive the "Anglos" (i.e. English Canadians and Americans) as evil colonizers trying to dominate us and make us go extinct, and resist forced assimilation into English society with every single fiber of my being, no matter the cost!

Sadly, the consequence of that belief - when taken to the extreme - is that people immigrating into the province from foreign countries (especially non-French speaking cultural minorities coming to live in Quebec), are often perceived as part of a global English conspiracy to thin out our numbers and make the French Canadians go extinct, rather than treated as fellow minorities that should be allowed to keep both their language and their culture of origin and find pride in it, while integrating a new culture and community (the Quebecer people) as well.

I believe most Quebecers - including yours truly - have successfully integrated into a more global Canadian society, and developed a strong dual sense of identity by considering themselves a distinct and unique nation within a nation.

We've moved away from separatist ideals of making Quebec our own country (friendly reminder that 49.15% of people from Quebec voted to "divorce" from Canada back in 1995), found other outlets and means of asserting and expressing our cultural identity and demanding respect from the rest of Canada, and have grown rather proud of contributing to Canada's rich cultural heritage and diversity!

I've personally found that people sharing the same country being different is a good thing. Because the more difference there is amongst all the provinces and immigrants coming to share the land in term of culture, the more we are forced to learn live together, make concessions, and respect each other's such differences.

But, just as French Canadians fear assimilation (and can unfairly opress other minorities they perceive as being "in cahoots" with the Anglos), some English Canadians see French Canadians (Quebec's people especially) as a threat to national unity, and the country being able to have a strong Canadian national identity.

They see Quebecers as whiners that want preferential treatment, consider themselves "too good to be Canadians", etc.

They don't understand why all Canadian provinces should be considered bilingual, except ours.

They do not understand that there used to be a million people part of a distinct Cajun French American community (the descendants of French Canadian people, Acadians more precisely, that were kicked out of their own homes and torn from their families and communities by the British people at the end of the Seven Years War) in Louisiana back in the 1960s.

They don't see (nor care) that, today, there are barely 120 000 of them left that are still able to celebrate their culture in their own tongue, because they live in an uningual country with no strong policies in place to avoid having them become assimilated into English America.

Making Quebec an uningual French province where the only officially recognized national language spoken is French, making sure that only people that can fluently speak both English and French can be elected as Canadian Prime Ministers, and making both English and French the two official languages of Canada, are all part of Canada's efforts to protect its French Canadian minority (if we include those living outside of Quebec, we account for 29.2% of the population) and make sure Canada won't lose part of its rich history and culture.

But there are some French Canadians that feel too discriminated against (and hated) by English Canadians to take pride in a more multicultural Canadian identity, that still refuse to call themselves Canadians to this day, and that only identify with being Quebecers.

We call English Canada and French Canada "Les Deux Solitudes" (The Two Solitudes) of the country.

Two people struggling to communicate with and understand each other.

English Canada and French Canada tend to bicker like an old married couple, get on each other's nerves, push each other's buttons, complain that the other is always trying to steal all the covers on their side while they sleep.

And yet, when push comes to shove, we're still fond of each other (though sometimes too proud and stubborn to admit it), and remain fiercely protective of each other (much like we're seeing now).

It's almost like "How dare you piss English Canadians off! That's our job! No one's allowed to get on their nerves and make their lives more difficult but us! Now back off, or we'll fuck you up!"

Seriously, I almost wish the other Provinces would just go "Sure, we'll be willing to consider becoming the 51st State if you can convince our French Canadians from Quebec to become Americans!", then send him to negotiate with us, sit back, and enjoy the show!

Because English Canada might not be perfect, and neither are we (like I said, some of us have unfortunately taken nationalism to the extreme! And both sides seem to have a tendency to forget that Native Americans were here first. So the land's not even technically ours, and they, too, have cultures and languages worth protecting that are part of our country's heritage!).

But, at least, English Canadians are aware of our existence and, historically speaking, we've elected leaders that did take how important it is for us to survive as a nation into consideration, and allowed us to govern ourselves for the most part.

The trust between us might be fragile at times, but it's still there and we could have found a worst partner to be married to, regardless of how many time we came close to a divorce.

English Canada, we still love you even though your feet are cold and you tend to fart in bed is what I'm saying.

But the USA?!?! It wouldn't work! We can be neighbors and friends, and regularly have breakfast together (we'll bring the maple syrup, they'll bring the orange juice, etc.)!

But as a married couple?!

Their current President doesn't even know French Canadian people exist, apparently, or how importantly vital our national identity is to us!

Else he wouldn't be talking so flippantly about Canada becoming the 51st State, without specifically addressing those delicate cultural issues, and what his plans would be to make sure Quebec wouldn't need to worry about suffering Louisiana's fate!

Of course, we wouldn't trust a single word he says and know any promise he'd be making would be pure bullshit!

But it would show him having at least the tiniest grasp of Canada's unique political landscape. And he visibly does not.

I used to feel bad for the unflattering American stereotypes depicted in the movie "Bon Cop Bad Cop 2", but seriously, I think these morons were likely modeled after Trump!

Dude, most of us would rather go hungry and freaking die than ever allow ourselves to be swallowed up by you and your English culture! We are a fiercely proud Latin people (not to confuse with Latino, that form their own specific ethnic group) that don't fuck around when you do anything that could remotely threaten our place as a distinct Francophone nation within North America!

We do love the American people and are horrified by the way you are abusing them right now, but we're not them.

We love being friends and neighbours with them, but can do so without becoming someone else!

We can tolerate a sometimes difficult and often challenging, yet still ultimately healthy and rewarding marriage with Canada, because there's usually a genuine effort being made to understand each other, and strive for win-win scenarios between the English Canadian and French Canadian people and cultures.

But Quebec and the USA, even under another President, would face too many irreconcilable differences to make us work as a couple.

And you? You're an abusive and dangerous malignant narcissist bully that would only seek to control and impose your will on us without any regard nor empathy for our own needs!

What you offer your people isn't freedom, it's a freaking dictatorship!

Leave French and English Canadians alone!

[whencyclopedia]

Dunkirk Evacuation

The Dunkirk Evacuation of 26 May to 4 June 1940, known as Operation Dynamo, was the attempt to save the British Expeditionary Force in France from total defeat by an advancing German army. Nearly 1,000 naval and civilian craft of all kinds, aided by calm weather and RAF air support, managed to evacuate around 340,000 British, French, and Allied soldiers.

The evacuation led to soured Franco-Anglo relations as the French considered Dunkirk a betrayal, but the alternative was very likely the capture of the entire British Expeditionary Force on the Continent. France surrendered shortly after Dunkirk, but the withdrawal allowed Britain and its empire to harbour its resources and fight on alone in what would become an ever-expanding theatre of war.

Germany's Blitzkrieg

At the outbreak of the Second World War when Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, France was relying almost entirely on a single defensive line to protect itself against invasion. These defences were the Maginot Line, a series of mightily impressive concrete structures, bunkers, and underground tunnels which ran along France's eastern frontiers. Manned by 400,000 soldiers, the defence system was named after the French minister of war André Maginot. The French imagined a German attack was most likely to come in two places: the Metz and Lauter regions. As it turned out, Germany attacked France through the Ardennes and Sedan on the Belgian border, circumventing most of the Maginot Line and overrunning the inadequate French defences around the River Meuse, inadequate because the French had considered the terrain in this forested area unsuitable for tanks. Later in the campaign, the Maginot Line was breached near Colmar and Saarbrücken.

To bolster the defences of France, Britain had sent across the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) under the command of General John Vereker (better known by his later title Lord Gort, 1886-1946). Around 150,000 men, mostly infantry, had arrived in September 1939 to strengthen the Franco-Belgian border. The BEF included the British Advanced Air Striking Force of 12 RAF squadrons. The aircraft were mostly Hawker Hurricane fighters and a few light bombers, all given much to the regret of RAF commanders who would have preferred to have kept these planes for home defence. The superior Supermarine Spitfire fighters were kept safely in Britain until the very last stages of the battle in France. The BEF had no armoured divisions and so was very much a defensive force, rather than an offensive one. More infantry divisions arrived up to April 1940, so the BEF grew to almost 400,000 men, but 150,000 of these had little or no military training. As General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) noted, the BEF was "totally unfit to fight a first class war on the Continent" (Dear, 130). In this respect, both Britain and France were very much stuck in the defensive-thinking mode that had won them the First World War (1914-18). Their enemy was exactly the opposite and had planned meticulously for what it called Fall Gelb (Operation Yellow), the German offensive in the west.

Totally unprepared for a war of movement, the defensive-thinking French were overwhelmed in the middle weeks of May 1940 by the German Blitzkrieg ("lightning war") tactics of fast-moving tanks supported by specialist bombers and smartly followed by the infantry. German forces swept through the three neutral countries of the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. The 9th Army punched through the Ardennes and raced in a giant curve through northeast France to reach the coast around Boulogne. The BEF and the northern French armies (7th and 1st) were cut off from the rest of the French forces to the south. Germany had achieved what it called the 'Sickle Slice' (Sichelschnitt). By 24 May, the French and British troops were isolated and with their backs to the English Channel, occupying territory from Dunkirk to Lille. Although there were sporadic counterpunches by the defenders, Gort had already concluded that the French army had collapsed as an operational force. Gort considered an attack on the Germans to the south, which he was ordered to make, would have achieved very little except the annihilation of his army. The BEF must be saved, and so he withdrew to the north.

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[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

Couple of things about seeing Nish Kumar in Canada, related to the fact that he was in Canada:

An audience member said they'd driven four hours to be there, and Amy Annette pointed out that where she comes from, that's all way across the country. Which got a big laugh from the crowd, full of people who know a 4-hour drive as a relatively short road trip. Reminding me, once again, of why I need to remember to be unimpressed when British comedians brag that they've been travelling "all over the country".

Nish Kumar brought up the fact that we're still technically ruled by the British monarchy. That's disappointing, because I really hope everyone will just forget about that, so I can continue feeling superior to those other places that have monarchies. Nish said that Britain shouldn't even have a monarchy, so Canada definitely shouldn't, which is the exact line that I've said to my parents before, when the regular Canadian debate comes up about whether it's worth opening up our constitution to take royalty out of it. I've told my dad before that of course I don't think Canada should be ruled by the British monarchy, I don't even think Britain should be ruled by the British monarchy.

Nish did some jokes about Donald Trump declaring trade war on us/threatening to buy us, and then added "But at least you won the hockey game," and that got an absolutely massive cheer from the crowd. By far the biggest cheer that happened all night. To people who don't live in Canada, I really don't think I can explain to you how fucking seriously everyone in Canada took that hockey team. When I said last week that it feels like everyone is celebrating because winning the hockey game means we won't be annexed now, I wasn't kidding. This was treated like the closest thing in my lifetime to the Miracle On Ice event.

Nish Kumar made a lot of jokes about Montreal being full of French people, considering the fact that I bet there wasn't a Francophone in that entire crowd. Montreal's a city that's split between its Francophone and Anglophone populations, but that theatre was clearly a mostly Anglo establishment with mostly Anglo staff and mostly Anglo patrons, and many people at that gig would have travelled from Anglophone Ontario anyway. And yet, Nish decided that his "bit of local" would be a whole bunch of jokes about French speakers. Which we all found quite funny. But definitely not because we were Franco.

When Amy Annette does her Kate Moss routine in Britain, she never stops to wonder whether the audience will know who she's talking about. In Canada, she sounded more hesitant, saying she wasn't sure if her and her terrible diet culture slogans would have travelled widely to Canada. Fortunately for Amy, everyone was only too aware of the fucked up subject matter of the joke.

Nish Kumar has a routine that references Jordan Peterson, and when he does that routine in the UK, he first explains a bit about who Jordan Peterson is. I'd always thought that was odd, because surely everyone already knows far more than they'd like about Jordan Peterson. But in Canada, Nish introduced the Jordan Peterson stuff by saying that we're Canadians, of course all of us already know who this guy is, he needs no explanation. I remembered that Jordan Peterson is Canada, and maybe he's not quite as famous in the UK? Is that true? He's very, very famous and influential here. I suppose that's a slightly positive thing, if his international reach isn't quite as strong as I'd thought.

Amy Annette made a joke about a "toonie" falling out of her bra after a night out clubbing as a teenager. When she does this joke in the UK, that toonie is a 20-pence piece. I think Amy might have made that change without looking up how large or heavy a toonie is.

In the UK, Nish Kumar puts a joke in the middle of this show that people could complain about, so at the end of it, he says "My name is Romesh Ranganathan" (the joke being that people are always mixing him up with Romesh, and in this case he wants them to do that so they won't blame him for what he just said). In Canada, Nish did the same joke, but earlier in the show, he added to a different joke, a line that complained that people can't tell him apart from his fellow comedians Romesh Ranganathan, even though Romesh is Sri Lanken and wears glasses. It occurred to me after the show that he might have added that line in case some people in the Canadian crowd don't know who Romesh is.

Thing that is not related to Canada but it occurred to me literally right now and I'm going to write it down before posting:

Nish Kumar has now established a pattern in which when I see him live, he updates me on what he was doing offstage during the last event where I saw him live.

In May 2022, I travelled to New York City to see Nish Kumar do Your Power Your Control live. In that show, he said he dislikes comedians who use Netflix specials to punch down, and he shouted, "Fuck you Dave Chapelle, fuck you Ricky Gervais!" In July 2022, I travelled to Montreal to see him do the same show at the Just For Laughs festival, because I have something wrong with me made the completely correct decision, actually, that was worth seeing twice. The show at Just For Laughs was almost the same as the NYC version, but with a few little changes. For example, he ended that routine with "Fuck you Dave Chapelle, fuck you Ricky Gervais, fuck you Jimmy Carr!" Later in the show, he talked shit about the Off Menu guys for a while, and then said, "I don't really mean any of that, obviously, those guys are my friends. I meant what I said about Carr and Gervais, though." Then he called Jimmy Carr a "giggling ghost".

I noted that addition at the time, and wondered what had happened between May 2022 and June 2022 to get Jimmy Carr added to that list (there was that whole Holocaust joke scandal at the time, but that scandal was in the news far earlier in the year, before the NYC show). I was quite surprised, however, when I first heard Nish Kumar's current show, as it gives me an answer.

I've realized as I'm writing this that I can't explain the answer without a major spoiler for Nish's show, which I think is fair game to post, because he's done that specific joke/punchline on NextUp twice now, while streaming and then it was on catch-up for ages, someone even cut out the video clip of him doing that joke and it got shared all over Tumblr last year, so I'm pretty sure it's not meant to be a secret anymore. But I'm adding a spoiler cut in case anyone reading this is planning to see this show and doesn't already know the punchline - don't click on this link, because it's worth hearing this joke unspoiled.

Nish's 2024 show has a story about how he was at the Just For Laughs comedy festival, in Montreal Canada, in 2022. And at that festival, he was chatting with his buddy James Acaster (I know that Acaster was at JFL 2022, I saw James' show there the night after I saw Nish's). During that conversation, Jimmy Carr came by (I know Jimmy Carr was at that festival too, I intentionally chose not to buy tickets to see him), and Nish confronted him about how he'd recently appeared on Jordan Peterson's podcast. Nish said this was unethical, Jimmy Carr said that boycotting someone's podcast would be cancel culture, and apparently they got into a big argument that James Acaster described as "a frenzied attack" (of Nish shouting at Jimmy for upholding misogynist systems by playing nice with Peterson).

So, I guess that's what happened. Nish Kumar was only in Montreal for about four days at JFL 2022, so the night that I was in a room and saw him shout "Fuck you Jimmy Carr" could not have been more than a few days after they had this fight. And apparently, his way of taking out his anger about that fight was to start talking shit about Jimmy in his show that week. (Note: that entire routine - the stuff about Carr, but also about Gervais and Chapelle, was unsurprisingly cut from the filmed version of that show.)

In 2024, I saw Nish's show, once in July in London and once in August in Edinburgh, in which he explained about the fight with Jimmy Carr.

The day I saw him in Edinburgh was immediately after the race riots in London. Fairly early into the show, Nish just stopped after a particular sentence and said, "Elephant in the room, there's race riots." Then he spent around two minutes going off on a rant that I'd not heard him do before (obviously not before, since the riots had only just happened) or since, about how the riots made him so angry and so upset, and this has been coming for a long time and everyone who pretends it hasn't is wrong, and to be honest, he said a few things that were edgy even for Nish. He's usually very careful and precise in his targets, but he let that go during that particular rant. I call it a "rant" because it clearly wasn't a pre-written routine, it wasn't funny, it shouldn't be funny. And yet I thought he was 100% justified in dedicating two minutes of his hour to what sounded like just genuine expression of furious emotion. Because he was right, it was an elephant in the room, with all of us watching a Nish Kumar show at a time like that.

In February 2025, I saw Nish Kumar in Montreal, where the show had a few new parts. In one of those new parts, Nish mentioned that last year, there were race riots in England, and on August 5, he had a panic attack from watching all the news about it. After I got home, I remembered that the date I saw him in Edinburgh last year was August 5.

So I assume, the next time I'm in a room with Nish Kumar, he'll let me know what he did while in Montreal for a tour show in February 2025.

[call-me-liquid]

This is going to sound insane to most people I know, but I have this fantasy of some day building up the nerve to refusing to speak English in public when I don't feel like it. Only signing and speaking French. Not pretending to be deaf, or pretending to not know English-- just, refusing to respond in English unless I want to. For no other reason than that just greatly reduces the amount of people I'm expected to talk to on a daily basis.

I just saw a video on TikTok of other multilingual Canadians talking about refusing to speak English ever again if we're taken over by America. Especially the Francohones. In a rare moment of anglo-franco unity, anglophones saying they'd learn French just to basically make themselves unassimilatable to the states.

Quite literally the only silver lining possible coming out of Canada being annexed: cultural unity finally possible for our two primary ethnic groups-- just to spite the Americans. And I won't have to talk to anyone who doesn't know French or ASL ever again if I don't want to lol.

[lesbianaglaya]

forget everything i ever said about the ridiculousness of the franco/anglo divide in quebec. number one way to stop men when they try to pick you up on the street is to immediately start speaking in whichever language they did not use.

[curiositasmundi]

Il 9 maggio 1945 dovrebbe essere considerata come una delle più importanti e cruciali date di tutto il Novecento e anche dell’intera storia umana. Quel giorno memorabile le forze dell’Armata Rossa e delle brigate partigiane sovietiche sconfissero definitivamente i criminali eserciti nazifascisti sul vasto fronte orientale. Senza la straordinaria resistenza sovietica, l’esercito tedesco avrebbe potuto dilagare a Est, impadronirsi delle più preziose materie prime e sconfiggere gli alleati anglo-franco-americani. La Germania nazista era vicina alla realizzazione della bomba atomica e disponeva di una scienza missilistica di almeno 15 anni più avanzata di quella dei suoi nemici. Verosimilmente l’Europa sarebbe diventata un campo di morte, una terra disseminata di campi di sterminio, di camere a gas e forni crematori, non un solo ebreo sarebbe sopravvissuto, i popoli slavi avrebbero conosciuto una nuova schiavitù. Per contrastare questo incubo, i popoli sovietici hanno sacrificato 27 milioni di vite, di cui 12 milioni russe, hanno patito distruzioni e sofferenze inenarrabili e hanno affrontato una guerra il cui scopo era lo sterminio totale, questo era l’intento dichiarato di Adolf Hitler, soggiogare i popoli slavi, sterminare il popolo russo. L’eroismo dei combattenti dell’Armata Rossa e dei cittadini sovietici sfida le più iperboliche narrazioni di epopee eroiche. Si pensi a Stalingrado e se è possibile ancora di più a Leningrado, assediata per tre anni. Nella Venezia del Nord la resistenza dei cittadini oltre che dei combattenti fu sovrumana. In questa grandiosa città gli abitanti e chi li guidava riuscirono a concepire l’inaudito, edificarono una strada, la famosa “Via della Vita”, sul lago ghiacciato Ladoga per portare rifornimenti alla città martoriata. In seguito, a guerra non ancora terminata, appena morto Roosevelt, Henry Truman, nuovo presidente Usa individuò nell’Unione Sovietica il nemico ideale del dopoguerra. Gli apparati di propaganda del governo, del Pentagono e dei servizi segreti statunitensi approntarono un infernale campagna di propaganda basata su una miscela tossica di russofobia e anticomunismo isterico per rappresentare l’Urss come il regno del male. Alcune istituzioni, create espressamente, seminavano le menzogne più infami. L’Europa comunitaria progressivamente sintonizzandosi sulla temperie stelle e strisce ha finito con l’allinearsi alla stessa propaganda, sulla spinta di governi fascistoidi di alcuni paesi dell’Europa dell’Est, fino alla perversione di apparentare comunismo e nazismo con l’intenzione di criminalizzare la Federazione Russa. Tutto ciò ha portato a ignorare artatamente la ricorrenza del 9 di maggio, a gettare l’oblio sul sacrificio di 27 milioni di cittadini russi e sovietici. È nostra intenzione riparare a questa vergogna per restituire onore e giustizia a quegli straordinari esseri umani a cui ogni cittadino europeo e non solo deve imperitura gratitudine.

Moni Ovadia in un brano dell'intervento per la celebrezione della vittoria dell’Armata Rossa sui nazifascisti tenuto nella sede dell'Ambasciata Russa a Roma.