The presidents Sarkozy, Holland or Macron would be “dictators”: the Rengain, distilled over the years in a guilty relativist dramaturgy, has produced his effects, and the danger is now well at the doors of the Elysée.
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Analysis. In the mid-1950s, the great comedian Simone Signoret, close to the French Communist Party (PCF), made a tour through the Soviet block. In Prague, Signoret received the call of a remote cousin, Sophie Langer, who wanted to meet her. But the French star did not sue. Almost ten years later, stubborn cousin managed to see Signoret in London, where she played a Shakespeare comedy. Sophie Langer could finally confide: she and her husband, Czech socialists, had fled the German invasion in 1939; exiles in the United States, they had returned to Czechoslovakia after the war, in the hope of building socialism; But Sophie Langer’s husband had been arrested for “deviationism”; When she had tried to contact mentionoret, it was ten years ago, it was in the hope that the diet makes a gesture to complain to a famous sympathizer …
At this moment, the comedian cut short and hastened to relativize: in the United States too, she said, the husband of her cousin would probably have had trouble … Then Sophie Changer went and left. “My cousin of Bratislava did not look like the biting that I had imagined in Prague, but I did not find it extremely kind, will remember signoret. And then, me, huh! I had to play comedy.” Refugee In Sweden after the “Prague Spring”, Sophie Langer will write these words in Simone: “Everything you found to tell me when I wanted to tell you my story is that as communists, we would have suffered The same treatment if we stayed in the United States. I hope today you understood the difference. “In his memoirs, Simone Signoret restores these memories with a feeling of shame. In the meantime, the Russian tanks had scraped on Prague, and she had read the testimonies of dissidents who described widespread surveillance, daily terror. She had ended up “understanding the difference” …
“Secondary enough”
But others, many others, never wanted to understand it. This refusal comes from far away. He explains why the comedy of indifference, the one that Simone Signoret repented of playing, still holds the top of the poster today. At the time of the Cold War, the relativistic dramaturgy ended, among other things, to draw an equality between liberal America and Soviet Russia. Decades later, she has nourished speeches where Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron have been in turn depressed in dictators. That it is interpreted by protessed crowds, respected intellectuals or influential journalists, history does not vary much and morality is always the same: the worst is not to fear, it is already there.
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