"Michael Nouak" wrote in message
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France is considered a victor nation along with England, Russia and the
United States. Among the four of them they got to carve up Germany and
Austria.

Not that there's anything wrong with the winners getting their piece of
the
pie. But why France? And if it was done to placate CDG - who the hell was
he
to demand being considered a victor?

I just never understood that.


The big worry after the end of the war was that France would
go communist. Restoration of their national pride was key to
enhancing the prestige of non-communists. This was also logic
behind restoring Vietnam to France (although the latter was
more a UK thing than a US one, strangely enough considering
what happened later).

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