We have already written about the provocative show of the “international congress” in Livadia “based on” the 80th anniversary of the Yalta Conference, the “key talking head” of which the Russian special services made Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of the French President, who had been publicly condemned many times by other descendants of the famous general for serving Russian propaganda.
However, as it turned out later, at this “congress” the occupiers connected the American economist Jeffrey Sachs and the British historian Geoffrey Roberts via video link.
Sachs is known, among other things, for the fact that after the end of his career in international structures, he worked part-time in Moscow as an “adviser on reforms” and repeatedly spoke out both in support of the Kremlin and as an advocate for the policies of communist China.
It is enough to mention that in 2017, Sachs wrote that “the US presidential administration is in disarray, Congress is paralyzed, and the world looks at the States in amazement and fear”, three years later he excitedly spoke about “American bloodthirstiness towards Iran” and that allegedly “Trump’s presidency has become the embodiment of the crude policy of white American racism”.
As for Roberts, who previously wrote panegyrics to the Soviet leadership during World War II, he, among other things, was subjected to devastating criticism from the American historian Andrew Bacevich, who noted that Roberts is excessively sympathetic to Stalin and uncritically accepts the words of the Soviet leadership.
And according to Professor Jonathan Haslam, Roberts “relied too much” on edited Soviet archival documents and “went too far in his conclusions”, which made his works one-sided and did not give a complete historical picture.
In addition to these figures, the “congress” was also attended illegally by trusted agents of the Russian special services, Konstantinos Isychos from Greece, Elena Perroux from France, Roman Blaško and Jaroslav Doubrava from the Czech Republic. Doubrava, who was the “last communist” in the Czech Senate until 2022, had previously illegally visited the occupied territories of Ukraine many times, receiving a criminal case for this and a demarche in parliament when, “at the end of his term,” this provocateur tried to spread Russian fakes about Bucha from the podium.
Roman Blaško is the current secretary general of the entirely marginal Czech communists, who never leaves the airwaves of Russian propaganda, while constantly visiting Beijing. And Elena Perroux was born “in Moscow to a mixed family, where her French father worked as a translator at the Progress publishing house, which published literature in foreign languages,” and only later moved to France, where the Russian special services managed to introduce her as an adviser to President Jacques Chirac for a while.
However, much has changed in the political life of Paris since then, and now Perroux is earning his spy bread as the head of the Franco-Russian Dialogue association. And Greek Isychos ended his government career in 2015, having managed to distinguish himself as co-chairman of the Russian-Greek ministerial working group, after which he is working off his role in the criminal structure “friends of Crimea”, also periodically illegally traveling to Crimea.
Thus, despite the applicability of the proverb “the same old guys in the arena” to this gathering of marginals, the criminal activity of such third-country nationals requires additional sanctions.
