Red Army Faction (Noun)
Meaning
A Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang's successor, perpetrated a string of bombings and assassinations across Germany.
- Red Army Faction's primary objective was to instigate a Marxist revolution by terrorizing the West German government and citizens.
- Established in the 1970s, the Red Army Faction eventually rose to prominence as one of Europe's most feared terrorist organizations.
- Due to heightened pressure from German authorities, key leaders of the Red Army Faction began surrendering to law enforcement, effectively dismantling the organization by the late 1990s.
- German intelligence operations continued to dismantle and investigate Red Army Faction's operations and ideology well after the organization disbanded in 1998.