Partisans
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During the Nazi occupation, Georgia’s father acted as a liaison between British intelligence and the local leftist
partisans
, sabotaging in unison the nearby Wehrmacht brigade and several platoons of Italian soldiers.
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This battle defined the first 150 years of the U.S. economy, and at every moment, different
partisans
saying, "Oh my God, the economy's about to collapse," and the rest of us just going about, spending our bucks on whatever it is we wanted to buy.
And I think it explains why
partisans
on both sides of the aisle keep reaching for this, frankly, antiquated, early modern language of civility precisely when they want to communicate that certain people and certain views are beyond the pale, but they want to save themselves the trouble of actually making an argument.
Two Russian
partisans
are captured by the Germans, and the interrogation tests their integrity as well as their courage.
Larisa Shepitko's THE ASCENT (1976) is an extraordinary, gruelling account of the
partisans'
fight against the Nazis in German-occupied Belorussia, The Ascent reflects the Russian obsession with the horrors of the Great Patriotic War, but unusually is both steeped in religious symbolism and ready to acknowledge the existence of the less than great Russian collaborator.
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