Friday, March 7, 2014

VIII. WHAT HAPPENED? THE WAR DID

8. MENU: What happened? The war did

THE LEFT IMPOSED CHANGE AFTER THE WAR BECAUSE THE RIGHT'S LEADERS WERE IN HIDING, IN PRISON OR SHOT

Collaborating with the Nazis discredited it for a generation, while the left's Resistance won great respect. 

Plaque next to railroad tracks in working-class Ménilmontant
Such memorials to fighters killed during the Liberation dot the city, except in the conservative west. 

Here is the background to the immense reforms 
that surprise Americans,
who had not been defeated and occupied.

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