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The Red Brigades ( Italian: Brigate Rosse [briˈɡaːte ˈrosse], often abbreviated BR) was a Marxist–Leninist armed terrorist [1] organization, [2] which was operating as a far-left guerilla and terrorist group based in Italy. [3] It was responsible for numerous violent incidents during Italy's Years of Lead, including the kidnapping and ...
1970 - c. 1988. Red Brigades, militant left-wing organization in Italy that gained notoriety in the 1970s for kidnappings, murders, and sabotage. Its self-proclaimed aim was to undermine the Italian state and pave the way for a Marxist upheaval led by a “revolutionary proletariat .”. The reputed founder of the Red Brigades was Renato Curcio ...
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The Red Brigades was the largest left-wing terrorist organization in Italy, and most other left-wing Italian terrorist groups had some relationship to it as either rivals or allies. Other organizations later split off from the BR or were absorbed by it. The BR's most important ideological rival was Front Line (PL), the second-largest left-wing ...
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Jan 28, 2024 · The Red Brigades and the Years of Lead in Italy - Pointless Violence and Inevitable Outcome. 1/28/2024. On Sunday morning, March 16, 1978, a Fiat car passed by with a sixty-year-old man sitting in the back seat, protected by a guard sitting in the front seat, and behind it was a guard car. Suddenly, another car with a diplomatic license plate ...
Background. By the 1930s, propaganda was being used by most of the nations that join World War II. [1] Propaganda engaged in various rhetoric and methodology to vilify the enemy and to justify and encourage domestic effort in the war. A common theme was the notion that the war was for the defence of the homeland against foreign invasion.
Jan 7, 2016 · This context helps us to understand better than before three key events of the years 1968–1973: the emergence of the first terrorist groups in Italy (the Partisans Action Groups and the Red Brigades); the bombing of the electric mains line where Giangiacomo Feltrinelli lost his life; and the car crash in which Enrico Berlinguer was involved ...
