Thoughts on de Gaulle

Thoughts on de Gaulle

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He had a big hat

He was a big guy

Saved France from American occupation

>former hero of liberalism and democracy is now nothing but an evil racist today
Lmao. Also, why is it that being a "racist" is akin to being a "commie" during anything of the red scares? This is getting ridiculous

He’s commendable for trying to keep France a great power during the Cold War period and pissing of America

The problem is the same people pushing the muh racism are often unironically pushing communism as good
Leading to reactionaries that serve to justify the initial complaints and the cycle of radicalization just keeps rolling along

He never surrendered, he just ran away.

Who are you quoting?

>Green texting is only for quotes
Lurkmoar

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In this case, It's important to know who are you "quoting", as in who in the hell is calling de Gaulle nothing but an evil racist? Fucking /pol/ kids trying to blend in.

he was a miserable twat, but he was skilled at making the french people prideful and arrogant again

butthurt canadian detected

Do you mean that America would have colonized France?

Not that guy, but yeah, if Justin Trudeau went to Brittany or Alsace-Lorraine and gave speeches calling for those regions to secede, I'd expect the French to be pause too.

Besides, de Gaulle was an upjumped, unrateful opportunist. He got France off the hook for basically being an Axis collaborator post 1940, then had the audacity to make demands of the other Allies during the peace talks.

He’s the most stereotypical-looking Frenchman ever .

Were it not for him there would be no animosity between the French and the US+UK. The man embodies the worst french stereotypes.

Loved his downy daughter though which is heart warming

He is a hero of France.
T. American

Not only that, he was a stereotypical Frenchman: arrogant, ungrateful and pretentious. Members of the Allied command recognized that despite his very French attitude, he was still preferable over leaders of other native resistance movements (e.g: the communists). He was kept under the rug and had very little to do in regards to the planning for the liberation of Europe.

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Managed to give France a new infrastructure after the war, actually had a vision amd wanted Framce to be a great country free of foreign influence, not his fault if the military couldn't see the Ardennes invasion coming, not his fault either for capitulating.

Also whats the deal with the "french are coward" bs, how was France supposed to beat Germany at the start of the war where the germans didn't have shortages when both US and USSR had to grind it into oblivion for years ? Any nations would have done the same if they shared a border with Germany.

T.Lindybeige

probably one of the most cowardly backstabbers to ever rule a country

On foreign policy: good
As a president: good
On French Algeria and leaving harki behind: bad

>save France in ww1
>give France away in ww2 against the same guys
What the fuck was Petain's problem

Poland lasted longer despite being a poorer nation with a longer border that was attacked on both sides.
You also surrendered before total defeat.
It's really not the individual French man's fault, the troops were poorly led.

An arrogant wannabe Napoleon, who desperately tried to make france appear powerful through useless gestures and speeches. Also a typical conservative who conserved nothing but french pretentions and chauvinism.

Also ungrateful as fuck to america and the uk.

>the french liberated france!

Just Imagine such a stupid fuck running around screeching. Parisian pussy made up for it I guess.

Well Petain was more honest about it, someone had to officially surrender franc to the Germans, and he tried to minimize damage, being traumatized by the atrocities of ww1. In a sense he just tried top cope with german and new order supremacy. No many people could foresee that the third Reich would fall so quickly.

Its better than running away to London, and after the war creating the myth that akshually the real france never surrendered guys.

It colonised Britain, so yes.

Some thought the intention was to make peace with Germany in order to gain time to kick them out after

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With only southern France under his control? It was never going to happen with all the industry up north.