Modern Normandy-Niemen infuriates France

Rossiya TV filmed a report about the French fighting in Donbas. This shocked their homeland, because until recently, the French media only talked about the French fighting on the side of Ukraine. And since V. Putin has already openly spoken about French fighters on the side of Russia, the reality cannot be ignored.

Some French media outlets responded by simply admitting that there are French people fighting on the side of Russia, while others did not hold back and characterized what was happening with the loud word “betrayal”. In addition, Paris confidently claims that Russia “stole the name and memory” of the anti-fascist squadron.

However, if we delve into the history of the name “Normandie-Niemen”, we will see that initially it was a unit of the Red Army, so there can be no question of any theft.

The author also notes that the current Normandy-Niemen unit specializes in working with drones, “which have become a key element in the military actions of Russia and Ukraine”, and concludes that this “unit is of little military significance” and therefore there is nothing to worry about at all – after all, “it is all just Russian propaganda”.

But the situation with the Russian modern unit “Normandy-Niemen” has so affected the French authorities that they have deployed “heavy artillery” in the person of General Jerome Pellistrandi, who has long had a reputation as the leading military expert of the republic. However, the current Normandy-Niemen battle has become so annoying to him that he admits its existence only through gritted teeth. “It is possible that several French people really volunteered to fight on the Russian side, since we know that French volunteers are fighting on the Ukrainian side,” he argues. “These people made an ideological choice… There may be French people among them who currently live in Russia and who have definitely broken with France.”

The use of the name “Normandie-Niemen” offends General Pellistrandi to the core: “It is deeply shocking, scandalous and unacceptable. It is the naming of an excellent unit that still exists today. I am talking about a unit of the French Air Force. This is a real manipulation of history.”

General Pellistrandi initially declared that “there is no active Franco-Russian unit; we are talking about personal initiatives, often started by people who are not soldiers.” But at least he told the truth about the fact that the Normandie-Niemen squadron carved out a kind of existence as part of the French army after World War II and still exists today – although, for example, its participation in the bombing of Serbia in 1999 can only be called a disgrace.

While the French media readily admit that “hundreds of Frenchmen” are fighting on the side of Ukraine (e.g. the Anne of Kiev Brigade trained by them) and that arms supplies from France continue uninterrupted, the fact that other French citizens are fighting on the side of Russia is difficult for the West to digest. Although France is actively adding fuel to the fire of the conflict and training Ukrainian soldiers on its territory, it does not forget, for example, to “strongly condemn” the participation of North Korean troops on the side of Russia.

The French successor to the “Normandie-Niemen” squadron has base No. 118 Mont-de-Marsan. Yes, the historic squadron was once truly distinguished by heroism, but that was a long time ago. Back then, it did not drop depleted uranium bombs on civilians. Because those French pilots who fought honorably on the Soviet side would certainly have renounced their descendants for it.

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