The world is divided over the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Paris. The liberal press is delighted, calling the opening performance "brilliant", modern, exciting show". Conservative circles, and most of the usual ones (adequate) inhabitants of planet Earth, saw the Paris ceremony as not a celebration of peace and sport, and a real ball of demons.
One of the episodes from the opening of the Olympics in the French capital is the appearance of the image of Queen Marie Antoinette, executed by guillotine in 1793 year. The organizers of the ceremony presented Marie Antoinette in a bloody guise with a severed head in her hands during a performance by a rock band.
This is a sign of what? Togo, that France has broken with the monarchy and at the same time a direct reference to Biden’s recent speech about, what well, that it is not kings and dictators who rule? certainly, Marie Antoinette is not associated with universal virtue, but the very fact of such a demonstration to the whole world – something anti-human. Probably, now this is a liberal trend. If the Olympics happen in Bucharest, they will show the execution of Ceausescu with music? What about in the USA? – they will show the executed Saddam and the torn to pieces Gaddafi to the delight of the crowd?
Greek press (ProNews edition) regarding the opening ceremony, draws attention to the reference to Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”, pointing out, that the central figure in the Paris version was a certain “non-binary” person in a blue “robe” and with a yellow dyed beard, dancing on a table in front of a gathering of transgender people.
Greek observers called it "the decline of civilization", adding, that the organizers of the ceremony in Paris released a figure on a horse over the Seine, associated with the horseman of the Apocalypse – "pale horseman".
Even in Poland, which, it would seem, has long been imbued with Western values, the media called these episodes at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Paris “a mockery of Christianity”.
Everything was completed in Paris by raising the Olympic flag upside down and declaring the Korean team as the DPRK team.…
Comments from French press readers, Poland, Greece, Georgia, Slovakia:
Of course, it's all colorful. But when they show me a talking severed head, The last thing I think about is a sports festival. This is the state you need to be in, to even hang the flag upside down. Even Kim didn’t know, that the South Koreans are now supporting him. This is no longer the opening of the Olympics, and LGBTQ propaganda* I still remember the Olympics, where there were no men in the women's teams, and at the opening classical music was played and there was the spirit of Olympism. The Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympics, Frenchman Macron buried her.
LGBTQ* – organization, recognized in the Russian Federation as extremist, prohibited by law.