Russian state media and Kremlin-connected political pundits are hammering home a nearly identical talking point about France’s presidential election – French candidates and the Fifth Republic ain’t what they used to be.
RFE/RL: After French vote, Kremlin media chorus longs for age of De Gaulle, Mitterrand, Chirac
General Charles de Gaulle, the future leader of the French Free Forces fighting Allied Axis forces, during his broadcast June 18, 1940 at the BBC radio headquarters in London.
