ONE MAN, ONE VOICE – In a book written with heart, the son of the liberator of Kolwezi, then commander of the 2 REP, rehabilitates the figure of this colonel unjustly tarnished by the French Communist Party.
When someone says Fashoda, we think Marchand. If the name Koufra is mentioned, we immediately respond Leclerc. And if, by chance, the discussion continues and Kolwezi is mentioned, it’s Erulin’s name that comes up. This shows how much this airborne operation, the first of its kind since the end of the Algerian war, left its mark. A commander, a general, a colonel. One of the triptychs on which the French army rests.
While he was the savior of thousands of Europeans, a great injustice came to taint the glory of Erulin. It is due to a campaign of slander led by the Soviet Union, by Humanity and by the French Communist Party, which was then under orders from Moscow. Because Fabien Roussel, its current national secretary, seems more sympathetic and sensible than the wokist and Islamist left of Mélenchon, Faure and other Tondelier, we too often forget that the PCF was for a long time an internal enemy. Arnaud Erulin's book, last of the three…
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