Saint-Raphaël's right-wing mayor, no stranger to media stunts, has vowed to 'put an end to the lies about the reality of communist totalitarianism.' In response, the French Communist Party and other left-wing groups denounced the 'revisionism of history.'
Communisme has not cause death in France like it did in the Soviet Union. Communist movement after World War II has largely contributed to improve the working conditions with reforms that are still fundamental workers rights in France today: minimum 2 weeks of paid holidays per year, 40 and then 35 hours per week standard work time, minimum wage, workers unions, and more. Nazis and the Vichy regim, on the other hand, are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of death, deportation to the elimination camps, some of these camps on the French territory. Equating both is factually wrong and a revision of history as a political stunt.
There was elected communist representative in the parlement, and communiste lead workers unions. They weighed on the legislative and executive powers. There was communiste mayors having local influence. Overall they made a difference as a part of a fairly diverse and fairly democratic system back then. This system is in danger today, when the majority in parlement and popular protests and petitions are being completely ignored by the government in place, and there isn’t much criticism from the mainstream media.
Oh, silly French. Everybody knows communism was better… at killing and oppressing people.
Communisme has not cause death in France like it did in the Soviet Union. Communist movement after World War II has largely contributed to improve the working conditions with reforms that are still fundamental workers rights in France today: minimum 2 weeks of paid holidays per year, 40 and then 35 hours per week standard work time, minimum wage, workers unions, and more. Nazis and the Vichy regim, on the other hand, are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of death, deportation to the elimination camps, some of these camps on the French territory. Equating both is factually wrong and a revision of history as a political stunt.
There was no comunist government in France so it is absolutely irrelevant.
There was elected communist representative in the parlement, and communiste lead workers unions. They weighed on the legislative and executive powers. There was communiste mayors having local influence. Overall they made a difference as a part of a fairly diverse and fairly democratic system back then. This system is in danger today, when the majority in parlement and popular protests and petitions are being completely ignored by the government in place, and there isn’t much criticism from the mainstream media.