RWE you like to simplify, it’s not that simple, I doubt that a French, be it a communist, would have like to bow under a foreign government, even under a soviet one ; yes, they expected the green light from Stalin to fight, and that their agendas were to get the power, but they would rather have become some autonomus Tito’s ; Hitler was no friend in stalin eyes, just a calculated alliance aimed to give him time to his army ready. I remember that, in Germany, the communists were sent to camps, already in 1938, or they had to accept the vacation in the army, who cared of your political obedience in front of guns !

Now I don’t mean that a communist regime would have been the solution for us, only that they weren’t a insignificant force, and in the context of urgency, one had to use them, De Gaulle made it, but one need to be as a clever and political chief like him to not be overwhelmed by them.

The only persons that welcomed the Germans were the conservatives, that were scared by the lefty unions and the moral disorder of the intellectuals.

It’s funny that some Petain regime mottos on morals are exactly the sames that I have noticed that the american conservatives claim on american conservative sites

” So today the McDonalds in those French villages are more despised than the Panzers that used to sit there?”

Come on, you can’t be serious, it’s not because José Bové broke one MacDo, that that it’s the rule, umm I don’t blame him for that though ! (the poor, he’s got a blank jacket for the european elections)

Now, stop whinning with this threat, the german tanks weren’t welcome too, and you have to learn french language to read the real facts, and not their interpretations on english biased papers, that never perdonned us to have them kicked out ! still till mid 19th century, they claimed for french territories ! and the actual queen of England has quite a big deal with them, since she is the land owner in France that perceives the biggest part of the euro agricultural subventions !