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In OTL the communists were generally seen as the strongest and best organised of the French resistance groups. At the height of their power in 1944 they controlled 100,000 partisans and had defacto control over parts of France during the German withdrawal.

As the Germans were pushed out of France many French communists within the resistance advocated a revolution. In OTL Stalin ordered the Communist resistance leaders to abandon such plans and instead work within the ideals of the popular front.

What if Stalin ordered the revolution to go ahead? What would the allies do? Would it cause a civil war in France? Would the communists even have any hope of winning?
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