A global meeting of „Russia lovers” in Moscow: Who stands with Putin?

“The Congress of the International Movement of Russia Lovers” is the name of a bizarre meeting that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov opened with a speech at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow on Tuesday.

„We see not only neo-Nazism, but direct Nazism sweeping more and more European countries,” Lavrov said in his opening speech. „We see history being destroyed before our eyes, sacred relics being destroyed.”

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A group of eminent celebrities C was invited, who did not hide their sympathy for Russia under Vladimir Putin even after the start of the war of aggression against Ukraine.

To make a prediction: French actor Gerard Depardieu, perhaps the last big name to understand Putin, was not present. Shortly after the start of the Russian aggression in April 2022, he spoke about the “crazy and unacceptable excesses” of his former patron and today he no longer wants to touch on this topic.

But who was sitting at Ulitsa Volkhonka 12 on Tuesday? There was American actor Steven Seagal with a height of 1.93 meters, who at one time became famous for such films as „Red Alert”.

Seagal’s „Russophilia,” to use Congressional’s nickname, was based on the job the formerly struggling actor and singer took in March 2013, where he was paid to lobby for Russian arms imports into the United States, and in the land he aggressively promoted Kalashnikov assault rifles.

His commitment to Russia remained the same. „I am 100 percent Rossophil and a million percent Russian,” he said in Moscow. The clearest expression of this is that the 73-year-old has long held Russian citizenship and is a member of the Just Russia party, which is close to Putin.

I am here to promote peace and friendship. And I believe that this conflict was caused by Anglo-Saxon interests, ”according to the British, Pierre de Gaulle said in Moscow. „guardians”. de Gaulle? Exactly, the Frenchman does not bear the name of the famous president and fighter against Nazi Germany by chance, but he is said to be the grandson of the general.

De Gaulle claims to have instituted „discrimination” against Russia. He recently told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti: „The more the West discriminates against Russia, the more I feel the unity of the Russian people.”

The de Gaulle family keeps a distance

Statements that have already led the famous French family away from Russian outsiders: Yves de Gaulle, Pierre’s elder brother, told Le Parisien on January 24 that his brother’s views „do not concern anyone but him – not me, not our family and even the general.”

Perhaps the most unusual appearance according to „guardians” A red-haired woman in her mid-70s who introduces herself as the Italian Princess Vittoria Aliata de Villafranca. “I think Putin is nicer than Biden,” she explained of her closeness to Russia, adding that her family was related to the Romanovs.

She then digs out and says that in her homeland she fought against the Catholic Secret Order Opus Dei and the Mafia for the return of her family’s mansion in Bagheria.

Russophobia = colonialism?

In Russophobia you see one of the „many versions of colonialism” that would have begun with the American landings in Sicily during World War II. She said she felt comfortable in Moscow as „a woman from a Sicilian village whose son wants to marry and who fears that European boys will soon be encouraged to marry cows…”

She may have been alluding to the narrative, which was repeated more and more in Russia, of the sacrifice of traditional gender roles in Europe in favor of „sodomy” and abnormal lifestyles.

Former member of the Alternative for Germany party

Among the representatives present, allegedly from 42 countries, there were said to be German participants as well. T-Online I mentioned: Among them is the German-Russian blogger Alina Leib, who has been in Russia since the beginning of the war of aggression and does a kind of „press coverage” there, as well as a former member of the Alternative for Germany party in the Bundestag.