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==Postwar use== ''Quisling'' was applied to some who cooperated with communist takeovers. As an illustration, the renegade social democrat [[Zdenฤk Fierlinger]] of [[Czechoslovakia]] was frequently derided as "Quislinger" for his collaboration with the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]].<ref name="InsideEurope" /> A 1966 ''[[Peanuts]]'' comic strip shows [[Lucy Van Pelt|Lucy]] dragging [[Linus Van Pelt|Linus]] out of [[Snoopy]]'s doghouse yelling "Traitor! ''Quisling!'' Squealer!" at Snoopy for betraying him hiding there.<ref>{{cite web |title=Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 14, 1966 |url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1966/06/14 |website=[[Go Comics]] |access-date=24 May 2024}}</ref> In the [[Doctor Who]] story ''[[Day of the Daleks]]'' (1972), the Doctor calls a man who collaborates with the Daleks a Quisling.<ref>{{cite web |title=Day of the Daleks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dayofdaleks/detail.shtml |website=[[BBC]] |access-date=24 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309030951/https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dayofdaleks/detail.shtml |archive-date=9 March 2021}}</ref> "[[The Patriot Game]]", one of the best known songs to emerge from the [[Irish nationalism|Irish nationalist struggle]], includes the line "...those quislings who sold out the Patriot Game" in some versions<ref name="PatriotGame1" /> (although the original uses "cowards"<ref name="PatriotGame2" /> and other versions substitute "rebels"<ref name="Kearns" /> or "traitors").<ref name="JudeCollins" /> In "[[Edge of Darkness]]", the 1943 film with Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan a clip from radio speech by Winston Churchill quotes him as saying, "...and the filthy Quisling that is his tool.". Errol Flynn also tells a traitorous character that, "Soon all Norway will know he's a Quisling.". In the Norwegian television series ''[[Occupied]]'', Norwegians who are seen as collaborating with the Russian invaders and later with European Union peacekeepers are called Quislings.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kirchick |first1=James |author1-link=James Kirchick |title=The Norwegian TV series that's enraged the Kremlin |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/occupied-norwegian-tv-series-thats-enraged-the-kremlin-norway-russia-occupation/ |website=[[Politico]] |access-date=24 May 2024 |date=20 March 2016}}</ref> Max Brooks' 2006 novel ''[[World War Z]]'' features survivors who lose their minds due to the apocalypse and pretend to be zombies themselves, even going so far as to biting and eating other survivors. These zombie-like survivors are called Quislings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brooks |first1=Max |author1-link=Max Brooks |title=World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War |date=2006 |publisher=[[Crown Publishing Group]] |isbn=0-307-34660-9 |page=196 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldwarzoralhis0000broo_c8o1/mode/2up}}</ref> In the epilogue of ''[[Farnham's Freehold]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], a sign is posted listing available goods and services. One of the items listed is "Jerked Quisling (by the neck)".<ref>{{cite web |title=Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein |url=https://www.biblio.com/book/farnhams-freehold-robert-heinlein/d/1582354688#gallery-9 |website=[[Biblio.com]] |access-date=24 May 2024}}</ref>
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