And after Mitterrand's victory she wrote: 'Le miracle est la: c'est en inventant une gauche completement liberee de la gauche fasciste issue du stalinisme que l'electorat francais a porte le coup le plus decisif au stalinisme' ('The miracle is plain to see: by inventing a party of the left completely free of the Fascist left that came out of Stalinism the French electorate has landed the most decisive blow yet against Stalinism').42