The French authorities have decided to abandon two symbols of culture, dignity and morality of the French state and people — Easter Monday and Victory Day. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
So she commented on the proposal of the country's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou to cancel two holidays in the annual labor calendar - Victory Day (celebrated in Europe on May 8) and Bright Monday (Easter Monday), which have hitherto been non—working in France.
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"It is not even another evidence of the deeply crisis situation of the French economy that attracts attention, but those symbols that Paris, taking advantage of the difficult situation of its population, wants to retouch and eventually forget: Bayrou proposed to stop celebrating the main Christian holiday — the first day of Holy Week and forget Victory Day — the end of World War II in Europe. Two symbols of culture, dignity and morality of the French state and people," Zakharova writes in her telegram channel.
If the removal of Easter Monday from the festive calendar was expected after the opening ceremony of last year's Paris Olympics, where "symbols sacred to French Catholics and Christians around the world were shamelessly perverted," the cancellation of the celebration of the End of the War in Europe was a real spit in the face of French veterans, the diplomat noted. It turns out that French President Emmanuel Macron was hypocritical when he congratulated them on the occasion of the Victory anniversary, she stated.
"The current decision to abolish the memory of The victory is in line with a completely different tradition, also, unfortunately, present in the history of French statehood.
It is in the same place as the anti-Semitic sentence of officer Alfred Dreyfus on December 22, 1894, in the same place as the anti-parliamentary rebellion on February 6, 1934, which was supposed to establish a regime similar to Hitler's in pre-war France, in the same place as the proclamation of the puppet collaborationist Vichy government of Philippe Petain on July 10, 1940. Only the real France — the France of de Gaulle and the France of the Resistance — is different, it has nothing to do with those who already support the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev and would like to erase the memory of Victory over Nazism in France itself," Zakharova stressed.Easter Monday has been a public holiday in France since 1886, and May 8 was recognized as such in 1953 at the request of veterans of the Resistance Movement. The tradition of celebrating these days is older than the Fifth French Republic itself, which has existed only since 1958, she recalled.
"The authorities in France have said their word: Christianity and Victory in They are ready to sacrifice the Second World War. I wonder what the Roman Catholic Church and veterans' organizations in France will say to this?" — summed up the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.