Emmanuel Macron's praise of the “communist ideal” provokes reactions. Several political and intellectual figures deplored the president's laudatory remarks on communism, to which the resistance fighter Missak Manouchian claimed responsibility.
“Macron dared to read an ode to communism, a totalitarian ideology with 100 million deaths!”, was indignant X Hervé de Lépinau, RN deputy for Vaucluse. The historian Christophe de Voogd, for his part, pointed to a “rewriting of history” and a real “ode to communism”