From time to time, it is good to listen to what is said outside our country. I didn't say that I endorsed everything (in particular depardiou), but I think that it is rich in lessons to open up to the opinions of others.
Thanks to Chalouette; )
Sincerely,
F.
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France is a strange country in a changing world. Thus, François Hollande's visit to Moscow is part of a new strategic deal in international relations. It is quite true that official France does not carry the Russians in its heart. This thought is so generalist that only silly Russian tourists and students are surprised. First of all, Russia was reproached for its strength, then for its communist aberrations (although France, for its part, went first through a pro-fascist infatuation during the Vichy period and then through a stage marked by great love for the communists) and, finally, we don't like the Russians for their “exhibitionist barbarity”. You think right, girls too good to be wise, diamonds, fancy cars or whatever. Russia pretends not to notice it and displays, indiscriminately, an open-mindedness that is surprising. I don't quite understand the Russian intellectuals who take pleasure in scourging the wounds of their own society, rejoicing each time a journalist or political dog from a foreign periodical begins to criticize the dark sides of Russian existence. . To cite only the raising of the shields against a Depardieu who… dared! Depardieu lets the dogs bark while happily skimming Mordovia and the Caucasus, but I have the impression that the mentality of the normal President was formed by contact with sad characters like BHL. I cannot otherwise explain François Hollande's visit to the premises of Echo of Moscow with the interview given to the Editor-in-Chief of this radio station. Echo of Moscow is a large Western and liberal radio station which is, to say the least, in opposition to the Kremlin. This radio station is, to say the least, unrepresentative of Russian voters but very close to international circles. It is up to Holland to choose its poles of attraction, but should a head of state display his attitude towards the country he is visiting? Could we not see in this a kind of interference in the local context, just like the unfortunate idea that the President of all French people had of instructing the Russian President on human rights? No, it is true that the exceptional interview given to Echo of Moscow was warmly welcomed by all the beautiful people that some call social scum and who very often end up in the London suburbs seeking refuge there following the lawsuits brought against them by the Russian tax authorities. This "elite" acclaims the "Dutch" approach, but the real Russia has perfectly understood the message addressed to it: first of all, we support Pussy Riot to the chagrin of Russian believers because we like naked bitches in France who saw crosses with chainsaws and now we proudly wear the colors of a haughty Western mentality as we set foot on Russian soil for the first time. In short, everyone has their own choice! But as Vladimir Putin is a wise and intelligent man, we should not be too surprised that he acknowledges receipt and takes note of such an attitude from the French head of state. I hope that on his next visit to Paris, he will ignore the interview requests from the major mass media such as Le Monde or Le Figaro to grant one to the Journal Télé referred to as ProRussia-Voix de la Russie.
Yvan Blot, politician and great academic who seems to embody this silent France which meditates and seems to be polishing its weapons, granted us these reflections by answering our questions on F. Hollande's brief visit to Moscow.
The Voice of Russia. Dear Mr. Blot, thank you for being with us on the airwaves of The Voice of Russia. François Hollande is in Moscow. From the media point of view, he began his visit with a passage on the frequencies of the Echo of Moscow, a private radio channel whose mission is to broadcast the liberal message with an often critical point of view on the initiatives of the Kremlin authorities. During his interview with the editor-in-chief of the radio, the normal president focused in particular on human rights in Russia, which he intends to discuss with Vladimir Putin, the French right to interference in Mali in the name of the mandate internationally and "because the Malian President is a friend of France" as well as on the Syrian question. Do you believe, like Jacques Sapir, that François Hollande is getting to know Russia by now? Is this visit a little forced because the resolution of certain international problems pass through Moscow or is it just a first contact to "gauge between politicians", J. Sapir says?
Yvan Blot. Personally, my first impression is that to see the dimension of this visit by François Hollande to President Putin, you have to see who surrounds President Hollande in the delegation. Me, what strikes me a lot in this delegation is that there are 15 great French business leaders around him and there are only 4 ministers. It is very revealing: that is to say that France today is taken by the throat and the economic situation is very bad. I think our experts have been pushing the French government for a long time to extend economic relations to Russia, to China, to India, to the East! Because that's where the growth potential lies. So I am glad that he obviously listened to his experts because he went to Moscow to try to develop economic relations with Russia, which are certainly much too weak compared to the potential of the two countries. I think that's the main thing and that's the positive side: it's the presence of all these French business leaders who are around President Hollande.
Now on human rights, you know, this is a subject on which President Hollande cannot say much, in my opinion, because he would first have to look at what is going on at home. pass ! The situation in French prisons is catastrophic: we don't have enough places, there is a lot of violence in French prisons! And I think we should already start sweeping a little at home! I point out to you that the European Court of Human Rights condemns France for the absence of freedom of speech in our country. We are the second country that we put after Turkey! There's nothing to be proud of either! If we do not ensure the safety of the French, well! with 4 and a half million crimes committed annually! In terms of Human Rights, I think that we must first sweep our homes before wanting to give lessons to others! And finally on foreign policy issues, I am glad that there is a dialogue, of course, between the two presidents! Having said that, unfortunately, for France it is nevertheless true that one can ask the question whether France is acting independently or whether it is not simply acting as the diplomatic arm of a much larger superpower than she to whom she is now very submissive.
LVdlR. What does France expect from Russia? Can Russia bring something to France and if so, is F. Hollande the man for the job to convince Russia to cooperate?
Yvan Blot. I think that France can expect two things from Russia: on the one hand, economic relations, once again, much more developed. There I believe that President Hollande… whether it's him or whether it's someone else, that's not very important because it's above all a matter between business leaders. But it is very good that business leaders have accompanied him! That's my first point.
As far as cultural affairs are concerned, I believe that there are many things to do there because Russia has never been so underrepresented in the French cultural world, in the French media, in French bookstores as today. ! Twenty years ago you could easily buy records in France, for example of Russian music. Today I went to Fnac des Champs-Elysées, there was nothing! As if Russian music didn't exist! Whether ! I exaggerate a little ! There were a few records of Russian classical music from the XIXe century but there was absolutely nothing else.
So in the cultural field, I think, there are still a lot of things to do for France to be more oriented towards Russia. The tropism of the cultural world, as you know, is the Anglo-Saxon world. And France is not very east-oriented. In general, this is also true for Germany. It is not only true for Russia! I think that France has every interest in developing its cultural relations in the east of its geographical area, that is to say in particular with the Russians and in particular with the Germans.
LVdlR. Is there a way to bridge the cultural chasm that separates France and Russia: France seems to be stubbornly counting on a secular civilization with horns and cries in the name of a liberal ideology, Russia is becoming more and more attached to its Orthodox roots and its role as a spiritual center betting on economic self-sufficiency and the creation of a multipolar world without military expansionism. What do you think ?
Yvan Blot. I believe that the base of a civilization is in spirituality because the human being is not only an animal. It has a spiritual dimension whatever the beliefs of one or the other... In this field, unfortunately, France is in a very archaic situation, that is to say that the French ruling circles remain, in general, dominated by a mechanistic vision of man which was that of the XNUMXth century: man as an animal, completely forgetting the spiritual dimension. Added to this is a French tradition of many years of being hostile to Christianity in the name of Reason while the dictatorship of Reason brought us to the XXe century, to the particularly totalitarian dictatorship which claimed to be scientific if my memory serves me correctly. So I am very suspicious of Reason. I think reason in a man is something very important, but there is also affectivity! In other words, there is the heart! And the current French civilization is a cold civilization! Try to see how the elderly are treated in France! Try to see how the poor are treated on the street! We are a cold, individualistic and materialistic civilization! So we could perhaps draw inspiration from the religious, spiritual and moral renewal in Russia. This is not at all the orientation that is taken by the media. But here I am not sure that Mr. Holland is the best placed to do that! I believe he had even extremely archaic beliefs. Finally, the old French secularism of the Third Republic! I'm afraid he is like that! But you never know, we'll see! »
Definitely François Hollande seems to be at a crossroads but there is very little chance, in my opinion, that he will choose the salutary path.
The opinions expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author.
source: English.ruvr.ru
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