| NOUN | group | Brigate Rosse, Red Brigades, BR | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s |
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| Meaning | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989. | |
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| Synonyms | Red Brigades, BR | |
| Category | terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act | The calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature |
| Instance of | terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO | A political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
| Region | Italy, Italian Republic, Italia | A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula |
| Spanish | Brigate Rosse | |
| Catalan | Brigate Rosse | |
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