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BBC noted that “Correspondents on state-controlled Rossiya 1 and NTV give almost identical comments on French elections” and RFERL noted that “After French Vote, Kremlin Media Chorus Longs For Age Of De Gaulle, Mitterrand, Chirac“, April 25, 2017 (RFERL)

Several days later, on April 29th, Marine Le Pen announced that she would name Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who (falsely) advertises himself as an heir to De Gaulle, Prime Minister if she wins. Instead of being a Nationalist-Gaullist, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan seems to be in Putin’s pocket, like Marine Le Pen. Whether bought or brain-washed, the result is the same.

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Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, made a March 2015 speech to the Russian Duma parliament with apparently misleading statements about General De Gaulle. Note that this was AFTER Russian invaded Crimea. Dupont-Aignan is apparently a fake Gaullist. Russia’s minions appear to be creating fake history along with fake news.

Although France and the United States have been allies since the American Revolution, when France helped the US win its freedom against the UK, General Charles de Gaulle wanted Europe to be able to protect itself without the help of the US. He wanted to maintain France and Europe’s independence from both the US and Russia. https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/did-frances-general-de-gaulle-foresee-the-danger-of-trump-putin-goal-of-de-gaulles-1963-franco-german-alliance-was-to-maintain-independence-from-russia-and-the-usa

The scenario which is playing out before our eyes proves that De Gaulle was right, whatever his reasons. Europe can’t count on the USA to protect it from nuclear Russia, since the US president now appears to be in Putin’s orbit.

If France falls to Russia in this presidential election, there will be no one to save the west from Putin’s vision of a world which he keeps in line with Orthodox Christian extremism (with Chabad Jewish extremism for Jews.) There will be no free speech, no freedom of religion, and no women’s rights – sad irony that a strong woman like Marine Le Pen may bring this to pass.

Even earlier, in 1947, Charles de Gaulle “gathered the anti-Communist opposition in the Rally of the French People (Rassemblement du peuple français or RPF)… In keeping with its strongly nationalist stance, it accused the French Communist Party of being a vassal of the Soviet Union” [i.e. Russia]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaullist_Party (The French and US Communist parties were funded by Russia until the fall of the Soviet Union.)

On April 25th, Will Vernon ‪@ BBCWillVernon‬
“Correspondents on state-controlled Rossiya 1 and NTV give almost identical comments on French elections:

Excerpted from: http://www.rferl.org/a/french-election-kremlin-media-de-gaulle-mitterand-chirac/28451463.html “After French Vote, Kremlin Media Chorus Longs For Age Of De Gaulle, Mitterrand, Chirac“, April 25, 2017 15:44 UTC, by Carl Schreck


Russian state media and Kremlin-connected political pundits are hammering home a nearly identical talking point about France’s presidential election — French candidates and the Fifth Republic ain’t what they used to be. In the run-up to and aftermath of the April 23 first-round vote, Kremlin-loyal media outlets joined in remarkable unison to declare the candidates unworthy of comparison to former French leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Francois Mitterrand, and Jacques Chirac.

In what resembles a coordinated messaging campaign, television personalities and political analysts have been delivering variants of the same thought and phrasing.

“France looks adrift,” news anchor and state media executive Dmitry Kiselyov, famous for his colorful anti-West diatribes, declared on election day. “There is no one among the current politicians of the stature of de Gaulle, Mitterrand, or Chirac.”

The first-round vote sent the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen into a May 7 runoff. Opinion polls show Macron, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s interference in Ukraine, is favored to defeat Le Pen….” Copyright (c) 2017. RFE/RL, Inc“. Entire article at bottom of our post and at original link: http://www.rferl.org/a/french-election-kremlin-media-de-gaulle-mitterand-chirac/28451463.html

After having been given the support of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who received 4.70% of the votes in the first round of the French presidential election, French Presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, announced Saturday, 29 April, that she would name Dupont-Aignan Prime Minister if she wins. She justified the choice in the name of patriotism and a shared project with the head of this anti-European party called “Debout la France” (Stand up France). It’s the first time that the National Front (FN) obtained support of a candidate from a party that claims General Charles de Gaulle. http://www.voaafrique.com/a/guerre-des-projets-et-ralliements-pour-macron-et-le-pen/3830964.html. Here one must underline claims.

French Presidential Candidate Marine Le Pen’s proposed Prime Minister Dupont-Aignan, is also close to Russia, having made a March 2015 speech to the Russian parliament with apparently misleading statements about General De Gaulle. This was AFTER Russian invaded Crimea: “Discours de Nicolas Dupont-Aignan devant le Parlement russe” Nicolas DUPONT-AIGNAN Parlement russe, lundi 16 mars 2015 (found on his web site).

When considering Dupont-Aignan’s apparent abuse of De Gaulle, one must bear in mind that during part of World War II the US, UK, France and the USSR (Russia) were allies. However, the USSR (Russia) had initially made a non-aggression pact and agreed to split Poland and other eastern European countries with Russia (USSR). This pact stood for almost 2 years until Hitler decided he wanted it all and grab the other (eastern) half of Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact Thus, timeline is important when looking at De Gaulle’s words. He may have spoken highly of Russia when they were an ally. This doesn’t exclude his having concerns when they were enemies again.

Dupont-Aignan who advertises himself as an heir to General De Gaulle, rallies to the ideological heirs to Marshall Pétain (who collaborated with the Nazis in Vichy France) remarks Hubert Huertas “Croquis. Un bâton de maréchal pour le général de Gaulle?” 1 MAI 2017, Mediapart https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/010517/croquis-un-baton-de-marechal-pour-le-general-de-gaulle )

This isn’t simply hyperbole, for Marine’s father Jean-Marie “Le Pen directed the 1965 presidential campaign of far-right candidate Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who obtained 5.19% of the votes. He insisted on the rehabilitation of the Collaborationists, declaring that:

“Was General de Gaulle more brave than Marshal Pétain in the occupied zone? This isn’t sure. It was much easier to resist in London than to resist in France.”[7]. In 1962, Le Pen lost his seat at the Assembly. He created the Serp (Société d’études et de relations publiques) firm, a company involved in the music industry, which produced both chorals of the CGT trade-union and songs of the Popular Front and Nazi marches. The firm was condemned in 1968 for “praise of war crime and complicity” after the diffusion of songs from the Third Reich.[7]

Front national

In 1972, Le Pen founded the Front National (FN) party, along with former OAS member Jacques Bompard, former Collaborationist Roland Gaucher and others nostalgics of Vichy France, neo-Nazi pagans, Traditionalist Catholics, and others.[7] Le Pen presented himself for the first time in the 1974 presidential election, obtaining 0.74% of the vote.[7] In 1976, his Parisian flat was dynamited (he lived at that time in his castle of Montretout in Saint-Cloud). The crime was never solved.[7] Le Pen then failed to obtain the 500 signatures from “grand electors” (grands électeurs, mayors, etc.) necessary to present himself in the 1981 presidential election, won by the candidate of the Socialist Party (PS), François Mitterrand.” (Le Pen, son univers impitoyable, Radio France Internationale, 2006-09-01 (French), cited in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen

“Après le soutien vendredi du chef d’un petit parti souverainiste, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (4,70% des voix au premier tour le 23 avril), elle a annoncé samedi vouloir le nommer Premier ministre en cas de victoire. Elle a justifié ce choix au nom du ‘patriotisme’ et du ‘projet commun’ défendus par le chef de ce parti anti-européen baptisé ‘Debout la France’./ C’est la première fois que le Front national (FN), aux idées anti-immigration et anti-Europe, obtient le soutien d’un candidat issu d’un parti se réclamant du général Charles de Gaulle. ‘C’est un jour historique car nous faisons passer les intérêts de la France avant des intérêts personnels et des intérêts partisans’, a assuré M. Dupont-Aignan, 56 ans.” http://www.voaafrique.com/a/guerre-des-projets-et-ralliements-pour-macron-et-le-pen/3830964.html

Hubert Huertas “Croquis. Un bâton de maréchal pour le général de Gaulle? 1 MAI 2017 PAR HUBERT HUERTAS
La présidentielle 2017 est historique, au sens étymologique du terme. Elle ne parle que d’Histoire, en la revisitant ou en la trafiquant. Par le truchement de Dupont-Aignan, le gaullisme le plus affiché vient même de se rallier aux descendants du pétainisme. Un jeu de rôle dangereux pour une France déboussolée. https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/010517/croquis-un-baton-de-marechal-pour-le-general-de-gaulle

“Pourquoi je voterai Macron par défaut, mais sans état d’âme”
2 MAI 2017 PAR JEAN-FRANÇOIS BAYART BLOG : LE BLOG DE JEAN-FRANÇOIS BAYART, https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-francois-bayart/blog/020517/pourquoi-je-voterai-macron-par-defaut-mais-sans-etat-d-ame

From RFERL: http://www.rferl.org/a/french-election-kremlin-media-de-gaulle-mitterand-chirac/28451463.html
“After French Vote, Kremlin Media Chorus Longs For Age Of De Gaulle, Mitterrand, Chirac“, April 25, 2017 15:44 UTC, by Carl Schreck

Russian state media and Kremlin-connected political pundits are hammering home a nearly identical talking point about France’s presidential election — French candidates and the Fifth Republic ain’t what they used to be.

In the run-up to and aftermath of the April 23 first-round vote, Kremlin-loyal media outlets joined in remarkable unison to declare the candidates unworthy of comparison to former French leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Francois Mitterrand, and Jacques Chirac.

In what resembles a coordinated messaging campaign, television personalities and political analysts have been delivering variants of the same thought and phrasing.

“France looks adrift,” news anchor and state media executive Dmitry Kiselyov, famous for his colorful anti-West diatribes, declared on election day. “There is no one among the current politicians of the stature of de Gaulle, Mitterrand, or Chirac.”

The first-round vote sent the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen into a May 7 runoff. Opinion polls show Macron, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s interference in Ukraine, is favored to defeat Le Pen.

Presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen. (composite photo)

Le Pen has spoken positively about Putin and backed lifting EU sanctions against Moscow over its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and support for armed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on April 24 that suggestions that the Kremlin wants Macron — whose campaign has accused Russian media and hackers of trying to undermine his election chances — to lose are “completely untrue” and “primitive.”

“We will approach whomever the French choose with respect,” Peskov was quoted by the state-run TASS news agency as saying.

But Russians who stick exclusively to a Kremlin-friendly outlets might get the impression that France has no one worth voting for.

‘New Page In History’

Echoing Kiselyov, Vyacheslav Prokofyev of the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta wrote on April 24 that “the current candidates don’t compare to the political figures of the not-so-distant past, like Presidents de Gaulle, Mitterrand, and Chirac.”

A report by state-run Rossia-1 said the same day that Macron had “rejected many decades of French culture” and constituted “a new page in the history of the Fifth Republic.”

“The golden age — de Gaulle, [Georges] Pompidou, [Valery] Giscard d’Estaing, Mitterrand, Chirac — has been relegated to the history books,” the report said. “They have been replaced by politicians of a different stature — Nicolas Sarkozy and [current French President] Francois Hollande.”
Will Vernon, a senior producer with BBC News in Moscow, noted similar language delivered by journalist Vadim Glusker of the national NTV network and by the prominent Rossia-1 news anchor Ernest Matskyavichyus.

Will Vernon ‪@BBCWillVernon‬
Correspondents on state-controlled Rossiya 1 and NTV give almost identical comments on French elections:

Meanwhile, Frants Klintsevich, a senior member of Russia’s upper house of parliament, told Rossiiskaya Gazeta on election day that “the time of colossal figures like General Charles de Gaulle, it seems, is gone for good.”

And political analyst Aleksei Martynov, who backed Putin’s election in 2012, wrote in an op-ed for the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper that France was waiting for its “new de Gaulle.”

“But he doesn’t exist,” Martynov wrote on April 24. “There is no such person, no such figure of that stature among the candidates.”

One of the first examples of this talking point over the past week came from political analyst Timofei Bordachev, program director with the government-sponsored Valdai Discussion Club. He wrote on the Lenta.ru website on April 21 that the French are disappointed there is “no clear figure on the horizon who could compare with the stature of the great presidents of the past — de Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard d’Estaing, Mitterrand, and even Chirac,” he wrote.

Bordachev, an associate professor with the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, did not respond to an e-mailed request for comment about whether he was working from a talking point prepared for him.

‘Hands-On Approach’

The Kremlin has long denied that it dictates how state-owned media outlets should cover major stories, most recently when Putin’s spokesman dismissed reports that it had ordered news outlets to tone down its positive coverage of U.S. President Donald Trump as “complete nonsense.”

Numerous veterans of Russian state media outlets, however, have publicly described the Kremlin’s hands-on approach to influencing news coverage, including at purported regular meetings with senior editors and media executives.

Vladimir Frolov, a well-connected political analyst in Moscow, told RFE/RL that this talking point is hitting the wrong notes and that the Kremlin would be wise to prepare for a potential Macron presidency.

“They need to open a back channel to Macron through the business lobby,” Frolov said. “Perhaps they are shooting already for the parliamentary election in June in the hopes of creating a right-of-center-majority.” Frolov added, however, that he has “no idea” what the “actual thinking is” behind the messaging. Copyright (c) 2017. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.” http://www.rferl.org/a/french-election-kremlin-media-de-gaulle-mitterand-chirac/28451463.html