1/9/2024 0 Comments Verdun on ne passe pas![]() Jan Drda in his Silent Barricade (1949), the last short story called as the same as the book, uses the term "NO PASSARAN" while three men are defending the last barricade in Prague during the uprising against the Wehrmacht in World War II. Īs veteran of World War I, the French poet and founder of Surrealism, André Breton, used the slogan as part of a poem called " Rano Raraku", include in his collected Poèmes (1916-1948), published on 1948. In August 2012 during the trial of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot group member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova wore a t-shirt with the slogan " ¡NO PASARÁN!" written across the front. In February 2011, "No pasarán!" was used by leftist demonstrators blockading a street in Dresden to stop a neo-Nazi march. In March 2010, the phrase " No pasarán!" was again adopted by anti-fascist leftist forces who created Unite Against Fascism against the English Defence League one of the first instances of the slogan being used in this era was the Bolton EDL rally. In last quarter of 2009, it has been used in the political propaganda of Estonia by the Estonian Centre Party. The phrase was again used in December 2002 by Colonel Emmanuel Maurin, commanding a French Foreign Legion unit in the Ivory Coast without communist or far left connotations. The phrase was used again in December 1943 by French-Canadian officer Paul Triquet of the Royal 22 e Regiment at Casa Berardi, in an action for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. It was often accompanied by the words pasaremos (we will pass) to indicate that communists rather than fascists will be the ones to seize state power. " ¡No pasarán!" was used by British anti-fascists during the October 1936 Battle of Cable Street, and is still used in this context in some political circles. The leader of the fascist forces, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, upon gaining Madrid, responded to this slogan with " Hemos pasado" ("We have passed"). It was also used during the Spanish Civil War, this time at the Siege of Madrid by Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, a member of the Communist Party of Spain, in her famous " No Pasarán" speech on 18 July 1936. Later during the war, it also was used by Romanian soldiers during the Battle of Mărăşeşti. It appears on propaganda posters, such as that by Maurice Neumont after the Second Battle of the Marne, which was later adopted on uniform badges by units manning the Maginot Line. It was most famously used during the Battle of Verdun in World War I by French General Robert Nivelle. ) is a slogan used to express determination to defend a position against an enemy. " They shall not pass" (French language: ' Ils ne passeront pas/On ne passe pas' Spanish language: ' ¡No pasarán!' Tomb of the unknown soldier at the Mausoleum of Mărăşeşti with the inscription " Pe aici nu se trece" ("They Shall Not Pass") On Ne Passe Pas! on a French medal commemorating the battle of Verdun File:Но Пасаран Мадрид.JPG
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