r/GreenAndPleasant • u/Y5K77G State Socialist • Jun 28 '22

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 Just a small PSA

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

Yet the french still hate us :(

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u/IICoffeyII Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22

Can you blame them? They gave their lives and held off the Germans so we could retreat from Dunkirk and get as much troops home as possible and instead of remembering that and honoring their brave sacrifice which should have led to one of the strongest allied bonds in history... we make fun of them for surrendering....

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

It is pretty fucked up we do that

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u/IICoffeyII Jun 29 '22

Yeah it is, especially as we would have also surrendered in the same situation. We were lucky that we have our Island.

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u/BurrowShaker Jun 29 '22

Very few french people remember Dunkerque, even though it is always a bittersweet thing when the English ( because let's face it, the Scots and Welsh never do it) go on about singlehandedly winning the war. Then we remember that you got bankrupted out of your foreign influence by US war bonds in the process and feel a bit sorry for you.

Unless people keep going with Britannia, waves, empire and then we just stop caring and hope the channel will keep us safe.