Lanfranco Cirillo (Russia-Italy) speech at the Global Conference on Multipolarity
Lanfranco Cirillo (Russia-Italy) – architect, businessman.
It’s a big pleasure to be here. Everything that I am listening is naturally something that I understand and many people in Europe are starting to understand.
So, what I would like to say to all of my Russian friends and friends from all over the World is that many people are exiting this kind of clouds where they don't have a clear idea. Many people are starting to open their eyes and understand that the world is a big mass, and only 1 billion people is western. And they consider themselves the "golden billion". They consider themselves the people blessed from God, the only place where there is democracy, the only place where there are rights.
But the world is changing. I've been travelling all my life and I still travel a lot in Africa, Middle East. And when I travel, I am shocked that many different countries are tired that European are trying to say what the have to do. They are tired that today they are not considered at the same level as the others, that they are just people to be used.
The same story is happening now, because now we see what makes western countries. I prefer to share them in two pieces: Anglo-Saxon countries and the rest. But the main ideology, in my opinion, is Anglo-Saxon and how they are using poor Ukrainian people — that's pretty amazing, because they are victims.
The civil war we are living in now, we are looking at something unbelievable: sisters and brothers are fighting each other. I am Christian and I think that any kind of war is a tragedy for everybody. The Russians have losses, the Ukrainians have losses, everybody has losses. Anyway, we understand that any war is a sacrifice, and Russia sacrifices young lives for the different prospects for future generations.
For this reason, I think what we living, what we are looking at today, is really a sign of a new world. The last years of unipolar world are finishing. I think this is the last year. The new world will start the next year. I suppose what is happening is a big human revolution. That is something that will change the future generation. The western people understand that Russians want to be Russians, Chinese want to be Chinese, they want to have choice, they want to be free. Russians want to have choice to read Dostoevsky or to read any American literature.
We want freedom. We are fighting for freedom, for intellectual freedom. I see that in American sanctions spread on people that have nothing to do with politics: philosophers, artists, sportsmen. Russia and western countries, especially Italy, are very close. Italians love Russians and Russians love Italian people, they are very close. Don't look at politics. A lot of Italians are starting to open their eyes, to understand what is true. They understand that the information in Italy is absolutely not free. Many time it goes in Italy when I make some interviews and I always tell to everybody probably thanks to God that the Russian leader is moderate, that he is not an extremist, because if not Vladimir Putin the world now would degenerate in such worse situation.
I think it is time when western people are starting to understand (I don't mean politicians, I mean average people) that there is no possibility that the only country can control everything all over the world. The Americans failed to control the world by economy, the failed. Now they want to control the world by army. Again, they are failing because it is not possible to be the one against everybody. And seven billion people want to see the new world, where all the countries will see their own interest, respect their traditions and history and work for future generations.
