Every resistance group relied heavily on women and girls as couriers, they were the invisible infrastructure that kept the networks from collapsing. They were exposed to significant risk, but are seldom acknowledged for their contribution.pic.twitter.com/39ITcRkrnh
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There’s a story about a woman who worked with the French resistance. In the bathroom of a train she used newspaper as a toilet seat cover/protection. The cheap news print stained her skin, leaving her terrified she’d be arrested as a courier transporting a message on her ass.
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Downed Allied airmen were smuggled out of France via escape lines that operated as one part of the resistance effort. Women were, again, invaluable for security. Aviators would travel with young women as their escorts on trains. A happy couple got less scrutiny than a solo man.
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Oh, I wish you were right. But it is not the case...
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Took the Soviets up to 2 decades to crush the underground
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They had to do a lot of iterations... bastards.
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Source?
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They couldn't last a year against the Soviets.
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