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** Italy had the biggest partisan movement of any Axis power. That was because Fascism got its supporters from the upper-middle class, who considered it a way to control the lower class. Needless to say, Fascism wasn't seen in a positive light by the farmers and workers who made up the majority of the population.
** Due to the Chinese Civil War, this was the main conflict with the Japanese during the invasion of China. It was also a [[Melee a Trois]] as the Nationalists and Communists generally fought each other as much as they fought the Japanese.
**Much of them were made more of than they were because most people really were willing to [[Les Collaborateurs|collaberate]] just enough to be left alone, usually not going so far as actual treason in their collaboration. Also sometimes a [[Rebel Leader]] was not ruthless enough to put his people through the full rigors of an insurgency when it was obvious conventional support wasn't coming for years if ever. The Free French were really ambiguous about that and really wanted recruits for conventional armies. The resistance they wanted to do a little spying and maybe a few "bangs" (as the British govenment charmingly termed blowing something up) and otherwise wait until the landing when they could have a real effect by snarling German military traffic. And there is some reason to believe many supporters joined only as soon it was safe, and just made noise. Not so much a [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|French thing]] as [[Miles Gloriosus]] is universal.
***Communists in many countries were often more effective. Sometimes they were with Comintern (basically international Communists terrorists) and it wasn't their country anyway. Or they were more likely to be bloody minded enough even to prefer having their own country wrecked than occupied. To give them their do they often were quite heroic.
* ''Some'' libertarians (especially in the US) consider themselves this. One very good example of the above would be [[wikipedia:Claire Wolfe|Claire Wolfe]].
* [[wikipedia:Operation Gladio|Stay-behind units]] organised in case of a Soviet invasion of Europe. During [[World War II]] the Home Guard Auxilary Units in Britain carried out a similar function.
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