• MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      The Paris Fishwives march on Versailles is one of my favorite historical antecdotes. They basically walked up to the soldiers, disarmed them, then marched up to the king and court and told them what for!

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        i’ll grant you the prior but absolutely not the latter. the french resistance tied up german resources in the western mainland they couldn’t afford to do

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          And then immediately after the war they went to town on Algerians. Look up “ici on noie Algeriens”.

          Their police was rebuilt by an honest to god fascist and just last election 33% percent voted for the far Right bloc. The French Far Right is currently stronger than then German one.