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Originally Posted by KonAaron Snake
The French resistance...a mythological creature akin to the Loch Ness monster, and an incredibly offensive myth that dares equate a nation of collaborators to the brave resistance seen from the poles, yugoslavians, greeks, danes...

https://www.historynet.com/french-re...-resistant.htm
Yeah. While the French Resistance did have it's accomplishments, they were a lot less than what was claimed in, say, September 1944.

And there were a lot more collaborators than those repeated to the dearth pictures of women with their heads shaved in their underwear that invariably comes up when the subject is mentioned. Not too loudly, of course.
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