8.9. MENU: WHAT HAPPENED? THE WAR DID
THE ALLIED VICTORY MEANT THAT THE RIGHT COULD NO LONGER RESIST PROGRESSIVE CHANGE: COLLABORATION WITH THE NAZIS MEANT THAT ITS BACKERS WENT INTO HIDING OR WERE IMPRISONED OR SHOT
At the same time the largely left Resistance was seen with great respect.
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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.
That explains the extensive social services that began then (and that brought a progressive approach to the past).
In brief
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