Vichy

The French resistance was vital to the war, but the Vichy government was not a foreign element imposed from the outside.

More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have explored the same theme.

In 1940, having shunned German overtures for him to serve in the government of a future “Vichy Russia,” he fled to southern France to escape the Nazi invasion.

"There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine," former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post.