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I wrote 'commie-lover' because that's how he was described then, and because he took them in his government, and had a joint programme with them.

But he was actually a quite determined adversary of communism in practice.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Feb 15th, 2007 at 04:13:10 AM EST
Absolutely true.

And Marchais and the PCF might nominally have gotten behind his first Presidential bid in the mid-seventies, but they did everything they could to make that support as soft as possible (no mobilization, for instance, something the PCF was very much known for) because they knew he was an adversary.

Which, once in government together, they were to see confirmed.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Thu Feb 15th, 2007 at 11:26:38 AM EST
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