My father was in the French Resistance from the start until 1945. He was in the armed wing and took a few years to tell me anything other than a few anecdotes here and there. He first taught me how the organization worked on the basis of the “triangle”: the political, the military and the supplier. The politician determined the strategy, the soldier established the tactics and then communicated his needs in arms, money and various equipment to the supplier. He gave me a good idea of what the fight against the occupier meant; the cold, the hunger, the assault, the dynamite and the return to the shadows after the inevitable losses. Faced with the determination he had shown in the face of a ruthless enemy, I remember saying to him: “What you fought for can be discussed, we can debate it, but this against what you fought, that alone qualifies you in my eyes. It was the first time in my life that he was silent on the phone.
This parallel with Ukraine arose in the face of these same scenes of desolation, this same populism of a totalitarian spirit, this same conspiracy which chooses the victim to better justify its inclinations to torture and domination. I find this same courage, the deaf and concentrated determination of these women and these men in the face of another tyranny. I would like to pay tribute to all those who resist, because, whether we like it or not, they represent the tipping point of our world.
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