Yeah, because the Algerians just famously sat around and waited for the French to leave, and even if they fought, not like they were in any actual danger.
Yeah the French totally left all on their own, and this love of the freedom fighters is comparable to American conservatives.
That thread is a gold crap mine of dunk tank posts.
The lyrics to the Algerian national anthem were first written on a fucking jail wall with the author's own blood, you literally could not get more freedom-yearning revolutionary self-sacrificing heroic martyrdom if you were writing fanfiction of a goddamn YA novel in the early 2010s