Forum:SH:Real world inspirations for the Resistance?

Hi.

I was wondering, do we have any official statements as to which real life organizations served as the inspiration for the Resistance (besides obviously the Rebel Alliance from the original trilogy, I mean).

To clarify: the various major factions of Star Wars in some way or another were based on real life groups in official statements. The Rebel Alliance has been stated by George Lucas to be based primarily on the Vietcong during the Vietnam War, with elements of the Jacobins [especially in Children of the Jedi, where the Rebels went all September Massacres on the Imperial Palace staff], Bolsheviks [see Children of the Jedi] Mao Zedong's China, and to a very small extent the American Minutemen also playing a role in their development. The Empire, likewise, was also stated by George Lucas to be based on America during the Vietnam War (or as he put it, "America 10 years from now ["now" being 1973]"), and to a lesser extent on the Nazis, Napoleonic France, the Roman Empire, and to a very tiny extent the USSR (maybe also Imperial Germany during World War I, and a flashback from Children of the Jedi also implies that the Empire was similar to the Romanovs of Russia and/or Louis XVI's France). The Old Republic, likewise, was implied by Lucas to be based on Robespierre's France, the Weimar Republic, and the Roman Republic, and to a certain extent America during the War in Iraq and War in Vietnam. Even the First Order was stated to be based on the concept of ODESSA, with TVTropes also implying that it had trace elements of North Korea, Iran, and the National Reorganization Process, and their actual backstory sounds like it was taken directly from the transition from Imperial Germany to Nazi Germany in the post World War events.

However, I haven't found anything that pointed to the real-world inspirations of the Resistance. Is there any official statements that indicate exactly which real world groups played an inspiration to the Resistance? Weedle McHairybug (talk) 18:45, November 22, 2017 (UTC)