On this December 25, 1920, while Christians were singing Christmas and the coming of the Savior, the activists of the SFIO - the French Section of the Workers' International (the Second International) -, fascinated by a Bolshevik Russia self-proclaimed "socialist homeland and power of the workers ”, gather in Tours to the song of
The International
to celebrate the glory of Lenin, who appears as the savior of a European socialism traumatized by war.
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The various socialist currents are the heirs of the French Revolution, of which they assume the Jacobin period - that of Robespierre, the sans-culottes, the terror and the guillotine.
However, after the defeat of the Commune in 1871, they favored universal suffrage and the legal and parliamentary route to power.
Gathered since 1905 by Jean Jaurès around his newspaper
L'Humanité
, in May 1914 they achieved great success with more than one hundred deputies and 18% of the votes.
This promising future is however upset by
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