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Dmitri Rogozin, once head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, penned a letter to Pierre Levy, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France. This letter calls out the French government for its participation in the Ukraine – Russia war, and includes a shell fragment that was fired from a French artillery piece that was being used to shell Donbass. The shell hit, almost killing Mr. Rogozin and killing two of his friends.
Donetsk City in particular, as well as all of Donbass, has been under Ukrainian bombardment since 2014, when the people of the region were appalled by the U.S. engineered coup d’etat known as the EuroMaidan. The Donbass region, a heavily industrialized sector of Ukraine populated by people who have strong Russia sympathies, feared for their lives from the new ultra nationalist leaning Ukrainian government and they seceded, forming two independent states, the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics.
Kiev responded by attacking these people – their own Ukrainian citizens by their claim. They have been shelling Donetsk city and the Donbass region since 2014. The Minsk I and Minsk II accords, ostensibly intended to create a peaceful resolution to this conflict, were recently revealed to be nothing but the subtlety of buying time for the Kiev government to arm itself for a major showdown against Russia. That is what is taking place now.
The following, then, is Mr. Rogozin’s letter, first presented in the Russian language, and then a rough translation and edit through Google and my own knowledge of the language. It seems appropriate to put this letter out to the public for several reasons:
- The war takes real people’s lives.
- This is not just a little boys’ game with toy tanks and toy armies. Families are losing fathers and mother and children on all sides.
- The American deep state establishment, the same people who are now being more and more openly reported to have masterminded the JFK assassination, the spate of war after war that the US has been in since WWII is responsible for brainwashing an entire nation into blind, Nazi-style hatred of their brothers and sisters.
- At some point there must be accountability for these things.
Now follows the letter, first in Russian, then in English. Anyone with deep knowledge of Russian is welcome to comment and correct my translation errors should they exist, and I will thank you in the comments and apply the edit after I have confirmed it.
TO THE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY
OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
Mr. PIERRE LEVY
Your Excellency Mr. Ambassador!
I recall with pleasure our communication with you, and our joint trips to the Borodino field and Baikonur. At that time we discussed many things and often the prospects for Russian-French political and economic cooperation.
Unfortunately, the position of your country and the NATO countries on growing a military threat to Russia near our borders has led to a tragic denouement. The words and deeds of France have undergone an astounding diametric divergence. Official Paris betrayed the cause of the great Charles de Gaulle and and has now become one of the most bloodthirsty states in Europe. Your country has submitted to the dictates of Washington, and has become a puppet state in the style of the Vichy government, serving the basest instincts of the Nazis. I write about this with pain, because I have always loved French history; I know the language and culture of France, and I honor the memory of the glorious deeds that came to pass when Russians and French fought side-by-side against common threats.
Recently, as a result of a vile terrorist act in Donetsk, I was seriously injured. It is only thanks to the great skill and patience of Russian military and civilian doctors that I am alive and almost healthy again. In this envelope, along with my letter, you will see a fragment from a shell fired by a French 155-mm Caesar self-propelled artillery mount. It pierced my right shoulder and lodged in the fifth cervical vertebrae, just a millimeter away from killing me or paralyzing me. This same French howitzer shell killed two of my young friends, leaving their wives as widows and their children as orphans.
These guys accompanied us on a trip to Baikonur, you shook hands with them. Now they are dead, killed by weapons supplied to Ukraine by your country. You probably know how many civilians were killed in Donetsk and the front-line cities of Novorossia by French weapons and French mercenaries. There are hundreds of people, including children.
Mr. Ambassador, what is France doing, what are you doing in this conflict which Western politicians have kindled between the Slavic peoples? I hope you understand the measure of your personal responsibility for these murders! You are the extraordinary and plenipotentiary representative of the Fifth Republic, and you are responsible, and so, I ask you to hand over this [enclosed] fragment, cut by surgeons from my spine, to French President Emmanuel Macron. And also tell him that no one will escape responsibility for the war crimes of France, the US, Britain, Germany and other NATO countries in the Donbass. All our victims are on your conscience, and indeed, the appearance of fascist Ukraine on the European map is also on your conscience.
Please accept, Mr. Ambassador, the assurances of my respect for your diplomatic status, but I am afraid that your mission has completely failed.
DMITRY ROGOZIN
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Perhaps the translation is weak – I would correct this statement:
“The Minsk I and Minsk II accords, ostensibly intended to create a peaceful resolution to this conflict, were recently revealed to be nothing but
the subtlety of buying time[subterfuge to stall and buy time for NATO and the West to arm] the Kiev governmentto arm itselffor a major showdown against Russia.I think this was my own assessment, where “subtlety” is being used to describe something very sneaky and insidious, and not easily seen. You have a point, but just for perspective, Minsk I and II were around 2014-15 and only admitted to in exact nature three weeks ago. Subtlety indeed was involved, for President Putin considered Angela Merkel a friend.
Pretty sad business, world politics…
Well, Pierre Levy does not sound like a Frenchman to me. He sounds more like someone who belongs in the American Government alongside his neocon compatriots. Just saying.
OT:
Someone in the YT comments has regurgitated the ‘joke’ about French armored vehicles having ‘one forward gear and four reverse gears’. Since the videos are in English, and assuming that they cater to audiences in the Anglosphere, it’s probably no surprise that the Anglo-American narrative of something (e.g. the notion of French being ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’) is bought into. Old habits die hard, I guess.