08.05.2022, Paris.
A photo exhibition about the events of the Great Patriotic War was opened at the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Orthodox Center in the French capital, a Rossa Primavera News Agency correspondent reported on May 8.
On May 6, an exhibition devoted to the events of the Great Patriotic War was opened in the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Orthodox Center (Centre Spirituel et Culturelé Orthodoxe Russe) located in the center of Paris, on Quai Branly.
The exhibition consists of stands – canvases with documentary photographs, war maps and explanatory text. The creators of the exhibition – our compatriots living in France from the association “Honoring the Victory over Nazism May 9, 1945” – tried to present the material in such a way that the French visitor gets the most complete picture of the described historical events, the heroic deeds of the Soviet people and the liberating mission of the Red Army.
A large part of the exposition is devoted to the struggle of the Soviet people against the Nazi invaders. The authors of the exhibition explain why for the Russian and Soviet people this war was the Great Patriotic War. The heroic path of the Soviet soldiers from Moscow to Berlin, who liberated Europe from fascism at the cost of inhuman sacrifices is presented.
Visitors to the exhibition will also be able to watch on the screen excerpts from the Soviet war newsreels of those years.
The exhibition will be on display at the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Orthodox Center through May 20. Entrance to the exhibition is free, it can be visited on any day of the week from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Contemporary French textbooks present the history of World War II as a myth about the struggle between the two totalitarianisms, with clear sympathy for Hitler’s side, to which Stalin “declared a war of annihilation.”
Since 2008, May 9 has been declared Europe Day. This was done to erase the memory of those who liberated the peoples of the continent from the Nazi hell.
This year the Russian representatives were not invited to the events in Paris, which should take place on May 8 on the occasion of victory in World War II. Delegations from the USSR and later from Russia and Belarus received invitations every year as representatives of countries that made a decisive contribution to the victory over fascism.
“This year there was no place for us on the podium. Although the ambassadors of the countries that fought on the side of Nazi Germany will sit there,” said the Russian ambassador in Paris, Aleksey Meshkov.
It is also worth noting that a rally in front of the main entrance to the Père Lachaise cemetery and laying flowers to the monument of the Resistance movement participants was held as a part of the Immortal Regiment procession in Paris on May 8.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
