Missak Manouchian, revolutionary leader of French Resistance against Nazis, born on this day 1906

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1. [Missak Manouchian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missak_Manouchian) was a leader of the armed French resistance against the Nazis during World War II. He became the head of the FTP-MOI, a subgroup of the resistance mostly made up of immigrants from Hungary, Romania and Poland. Many of the group’s members were Jewish.

   Manouchian was born in Adiyaman in the Ottoman Empire in 1906 and was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. His parents had died during the massacres but he managed to escape with his brother and reach Marseille in France. An avowed communist, he became involved in the Communist Party in France while concurrently publishing an Armenian newspaper called Zangou.

   Upon outbreak of World War II he was imprisoned and released, after which he joined the resistance to lead a group of fellow Armenians. The attacks and assassinations carried out by Manouchian and his fellow combatants increased his profile within the FTP-MOI, but also with the Nazis. He was listed on an infamous Nazi propaganda poster called [“l’Affiche Rouge” (“the Red Poster”)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiche_Rouge), where he was noted as the Armenian leader of the group.

   His group successfully conducted the assassination of Julius Ritter, an SS colonel managing the Nazi forced labour system in France; arson at factories producing for the Germans; derailing of trains; attacks on German soldiers, Bomb factories were set up, false papers were manufactured; clandestine presses operated in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Armenian, Romanian…

   Manouchian was eventually captured by the Nazis and executed. He has since been given the honour of being added to the French Pantheon.

2. Sort of reminds me of Aldo from Inglourious Basterds.

3. This guy shouldn’t be celebrated. He was a communist.

   During his time, nobody in the world really knew of the atrocities committed by the Germans.. everything came to light after the war..

   But people knew of the atrocities carried out by the communist… millions of purposely starved, mass executions, mass women raped, etc

   Aside from that, even if people didn’t know back then now we do. So yeah fuck this guy he was a communist and if you’re French OP, you’re lucky this man didn’t get his way or else millions of people would have been murdered in France.. even 10 million people would have been murdered as they were murdered in Ukraine by communist