On June 28, 1945, responding to the persistent personal call of General de Gaulle, Bernanos returned to his homeland after eight years spent in Brazil. He emigrated in September 1938, on the eve of the Munich Agreement, finding the atmosphere in France unbearably suffocating, milking anyone who thought freely. Having abandoned novelistic creativity, the writer turned his pen into a weapon. Speeches in major Brazilian newspapers made Bernanos an inspiration for the French Resistance. In the post-war years, he reflected on the problem of collective apostasy and the spirit of totalitarianism, on the loss of freedom in the process of enslaving the individual by the state; analyzes not only the phenomenon of the bearer of power, but also the phenomenon of the victim who finds an alibi for himself in non-resistance.