History | Politico: The United States wholeheartedly approves of Russia’s participation in the commemoration of the Normandy landings

of the United States presidential Joe Biden the administration reluctantly accepts the participation of a Russian representative in the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings on June 6 in France. Two online magazines report on the matter Politico a White House source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“Maybe this will remind Russians that they once fought real Nazis, instead of fictional Ukrainian Nazis,” a White House official speculated to Politico.

Liberation Mission, the French organizer of the memorial event told in April, that the representative of Russia is going to be invited to the memorial service. The decision was actually the French president’s Emmanuel Macron.

According to the organizer, however, the invitation does not apply to the president due to the ongoing war of aggression in Ukraine Vladimir Putin. Leaders and crown heads of other World War II allies are turning out in droves for commemorative ceremonies on the Channel coast of France.

Biden and his security team have long considered Macron, according to Politico’s sources, a head of state who, at least himself, believes he can influence Putin’s decisions. According to sources, Macron’s efforts have not been protested because some kind of diplomatic relations between NATO countries and the Kremlin could be beneficial.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov briefly commented in April that no letter of invitation to the French party had arrived in Moscow.

“Usually, an invitation letter is sent first and then we talk about it,” Lavrov scolded the news agency Interfax by. “But they have such manners now, there is no way they can stay within the bounds of decency.”

Russian state news agency Ria Novosti published at the same time by the editor Jelena Karajevan a long outpouring of discrimination against Putin. According to Karayeva, Putin leads a country that destroyed “75 percent” of Nazi Germany’s soldiers and weapons and “extinguished the crematoria of the concentration camps” at the same time as the French “surrendered to the Germans.”

Based on the comment, it is possible that an injured Putin will not send anyone to the Normandy celebrations.

Ukrainian TV channel 24 channels interviewed by a political scientist Igor Reiterovich on the other hand, resented the fact that Russia appropriates the heroic deeds of the Soviet Union without asking others. According to him, it would be fair to invite the leaders of all 15 former Soviet republics to the Normandy celebrations.