May the 20th, 1968. A Monday, just like today. May 1968 seemed to be a point with no return. At that day, exactly 45 years ago, almost everything stopped in Paris: subway, bus, telephone and a lot of other services. The general strike was a success. Approximately 6 million people did not work at that day in France and students maintained their series of protests in the streets of Paris, specially in the Quartier Latin.
In this scenario, May 20th 1968 seemed to indicate that the chaos was installed for many, many time. The French government looked weak, very weak and the environment of change seemed to be the great winner of a battle that started at the beginning of that month.
But as we were in 1968, nothing was for sure. The predictions may fail even with so strong evidences. The world seemed to be other from that moment on. And was, but not in the way it seemed to be at that time. 1968 had much more surprises prepared...
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