One of the most radicalizing things was learning that a vast majority of French Resistance fighters were communists and that the liberals did comparatively far less to resist the Nazis
Same story about the Danish resistance, the communists were the most active and organised. After the war this was glossed over in mainstream discourse and resistance fighters were presented in a depoliticised vaguely liberal patriotic context.
Today, when talking about communists in the resistance liberals even have the insolence to ponder over how "ironic" it was that communists fought nazis as both were "totalitarian".
In fairness, there was still sizable liberal and even some right wing elements (ie. reactionaries who hated the Germans more than they hated gommunism).
One of the most radicalizing things was learning that a vast majority of French Resistance fighters were communists and that the liberals did comparatively far less to resist the Nazis
Same story about the Danish resistance, the communists were the most active and organised. After the war this was glossed over in mainstream discourse and resistance fighters were presented in a depoliticised vaguely liberal patriotic context.
Today, when talking about communists in the resistance liberals even have the insolence to ponder over how "ironic" it was that communists fought nazis as both were "totalitarian".
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Communists and Anarchists, yeah. Liberals were relatively… happy with France’s nazi government.
In fairness, there was still sizable liberal and even some right wing elements (ie. reactionaries who hated the Germans more than they hated gommunism).
Conversely, there were even some "Socialists" who collaborated with the Nazis .
Yeah I don't mean to leave them out, I mean to say just far left people
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DID SOMEONE SAY ANTIFASCIST PARTISANS?
:stirner-shocked: who'd a thunk?
You got any source for that? Sounds like a good read.
Or that the US needed to meddle in French and Italian politics because the commies were so popular. Makes you think...