What if anti-communism discovered new colours in France? Even although the French Communist Party (PCF) is not the mass occasion that it was within the final century, the French proper is re-emerging from its paraphernalia, with the strategy of the municipal elections in March, an ideological marker that we thought was over. If it has the benefit of putting folks’s minds and competing with the National Rally (RN), which has been constructed for greater than fifty years, first beneath the label of the National Front, in its radical opposition to the PCF, it additionally drags the appropriate into perilous controversies of recollections within the East.
After the city of Saint-Raphaël (Var), whose mayor (Les Républicains, LR), Frédéric Masquelier, inaugurated the primary French monument to “victims of communism”on August 23, 2025, it’s the flip of the Ile-de-France area. On December 17, the regional council voted on an modification to the funds, which plans to mandate the president, Valérie Pécresse, to provoke partnerships with “memorial institutions dedicated to crimes committed by communist regimes in central and eastern Europe, with a view to integrating, into the educational paths of high school students in the Ile-de-France region, educational actions relating to this memory”.
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