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The Red Brigades (Italian: Brigate Rosse [briˈɡaːte ˈrosse], often abbreviated BR) was a Marxist–Leninist armed terrorist organization, which was operating as a far-left guerilla and terrorist group based in Italy.
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 .”
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The Red Brigades was a Marxist–Leninist armed terrorist organization, which was operating as a far-left guerilla and terrorist group based in Italy. It was responsible for numerous violent incidents during Italy's Years of Lead, including the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro in 1978.
Renato Curcio (Italian pronunciation: [reˈnaːto ˈkurtʃo]; born 23 September 1941) is a former terrorist, and the former leader of the Italian far-left terrorist organization, the Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, responsible among other facts of the kidnapping and murder of the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro).
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 ...
- 1984
- June 27, 2012
- September 1970
Beginning in 1970 and spanning over a decade, the “Brigate Rosse” (Red Brigades) and other smaller groups incited a wave of fear across Italy as political sabotage, kidnappings, and murders shook many metropolitan centers in what was later called “The Years of Lead.”
Jun 24, 2022 · Italy's Red Brigades: Ex-members face extradition from France. Italy's violent Red Brigades guerrilla group kidnapped and killed dozens of state officials in the 1970s and '80s. As a French...
