Charles de Gaulle's grandson called for every effort to fight for peace

The struggle for world peace requires the maximum possible investment of all strength and will. This was announced on May 11 by Pierre de Gaulle, grandson of Charles de Gaulle, President of France in 1958-1969, and deputy chairman of the jury of the Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy International Peace Prize.

"No one has a monopoly on peace, and it is very important that the Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize stands up for world peace. This is both a Russian and a French tradition. And I think it's very important to put all our efforts, all our will into the fight for peace," he told RIA Novosti.

He noted that people have the freedom of choice and the duty to fight for peace and do good.

"We honor all those who contributed to the common victory over Nazism"

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A day earlier, Pierre de Gaulle said that his grandfather, Charles de Gaulle, would have represented his country in Moscow at the parade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, if he had lived in our days. During the May 9 parade, he noted that the liberation of France from the Nazis was the result of the joint efforts of the Soviet military and soldiers of the French Resistance.