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Why are The French Sympathetic To Russia?
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France and Russia’s mutual obsession does go a long way back. Anyone who has read Leo Tolstoy’s magnum opus — War and Peace — would appreciate to a serious degree of the extent to which the Russian aristocrats in the 19th century were shaped by the French language and culture.
Even though War and Peace was set against the backdrop of Napoleon’s invasion of this vast country in Eurasia, one has never had the impression of antipathy towards all things French from the Russians.
And it would seem that the mutual obsession is very much alive today.
Why have written this?
Of all the major economies in Europe, you would be hard pressed to find any other country with the same level of sympathy for Russia as France.
What’s interesting here is that this feeling isn’t restricted to those on the right, such as Marine Le Pen who took Putin’s money in the run up to last month’s elections, but it is also common place among the intellectuals of the radical left too!
And I will explain further.
Despite the televised killings of Ukrainian women and children, there are great numbers of right wing French intellectuals who are quite sympathetic to the idea of a Russian sphere of influence. They…