Pierre de Gaulle, one of the grandsons of French Resistance hero General Charles de Gaulle against Nazi Germany, announced on Thursday that he wants to obtain Russian citizenship and that he appreciates the “great opportunities” Russia offers, AFP and News.ro reported.
“Yes, everything is done,” he answered the question of journalists whether he wants to get a Russian passport on the sidelines of a cultural forum in St. Petersburg. “I would be honored to receive Russian citizenship,” he added, according to the official Russian news agency TASS.
At the age of 60, he is the fourth son of Philippe de Gaulle, the eldest son of a former French general.
“I am pleased to note that you are fighting for traditional values, family, spirituality,” he emphasized. In his opinion, “all values have disappeared in Western countries.”
Pierre de Gaulle has supported the Kremlin since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, which is regularly reported by the Russian state media. On Thursday, Pierre de Gaulle assessed that the West “lost” in Ukraine.
“I think that NATO lost in this conflict, because neither NATO nor the West has the opportunity to continue the war,” he said, TASS reports.
“It is necessary to stop this tragedy”, – emphasized Pierre de Gaulle.
Pierre de Gaulle says he is continuing his grandfather’s policy
As a business strategist, he has repeatedly echoed Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric that the war in Ukraine was orchestrated by the United States and NATO to weaken Moscow.
“I am amazed by this unique thinking that systematically presents Vladimir Putin as the bad guy and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, as the good guy,” he told Le Figaro newspaper in January.
He claims to be the heir to Charles de Gaulle, who during the Cold War promoted a balanced position between the US and the USSR.
In February, Pierre de Gaulle visited Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s decisive victory over Nazi forces in 1943.
His family distanced itself from these positions.
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