panic-stricken people fled from the cities after the defeated army, the russian writer emigrant roman gulrural outback of france, wrote all the peasants, grapes, artisans , grocers, restaurateurs, garcons, cafe hairdressers, and these soldiers, fleeing like a rabble, all wanted one thing, anything, just to end. this fall into the bottomless abyss of france and all her civic virtue does not remain. there is nothing more he can do, because there is no strength to resist. the surrender of paris inspired terror and despair in the hearts of the french. on june 11, when the french government fled the capital, declaring paris an open city, crowds of garages rushed south from it. from a city of five million people, leaving all their property, 3 million people fled. children left elderly parents, doctors abandoned the patients who remained in hospitals. the capital's railway stations were overcrowded. soon the trains stopped running , the writer victor serge was an eyewitness to this biblical exodus, he recalled the end of paris it's the end of the world , it's unimaginable cars covered with typic