On March 5, 1953, France seemed struck by one of those outbursts of blindness of which she had the secret.
From the headquarters of the PCF to the College de France, passing by the Palais Bourbon, part of the press and the Catholic world, it is a river of lamentations which spreads to regret the disappearance of Stalin, one of the most cruel dictators of the XXth century.
Poets in mind, the "nation of human rights" settles in the posture of the sad and tearful family to salute the death of the head of the Gulag and several million dead.
L'Humanité
titles its special edition of March 6
"Mourning for all the peoples who express in meditation their immense love for the great Stalin".
The national conference of the PCF is interrupted and all the delegates,
“face imprinted with immense pain”,
weep like chairs;
“everywhere hearts are gripped by anguish”.
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