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Oocc: on this timeline, the main way of knowing someone vision of Petain is based if they call him a president, general and leader for positive or dictator, proto fascist and tyrant for negative.

Look, I'm not a European and imI trying to build my vision on this fascinating character. Since he calmed the situation after the Neville desastre in '17 he became very active on the French political scene and couped the government with the help of the French non fascist far right after Hitler broke the munich agreement. In one hand his adoption of De Gaulle mobile doctrine and masterfully prediction that the Germans would come from the Ardennes on the invasion of BeNeLux into France allowed him to stall them and later crush the third Reich with of course the help of the British massive bombing campaign, and later took steps to contain the Soviet union on the early cold war; on the other hand he madd a coup claiming that Dalardier would led France into desaster by being to weak and led a brutal persecution of left wing elements. Based on that I want to know: What do you think of Phillipe Petain?
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