The Red Brigades
Was Aldo Moro’s murder the beginning of the end for the Red Brigades?
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60 mins
Discover the violent history of Italy’s Red Brigades, the far‑left guerrilla group born out of radical student and worker unrest in the 1970s. From propaganda kidnappings to urban assassinations, explore how their campaign ultimately collapsed under public outrage and state crackdowns.
Ep 1:
A Nation Held Hostage
Aldo Moro's abduction plunges Italy into crisis, launching our deep dive into how student radicals and disillusioned workers birthed the Red Brigades amid Italy's fractured postwar contradictions.
Ep 2:
From Classrooms to Clandestine War
Idealistic militants abandon normal life for total clandestinity, escalating from factory sabotage to political assassination as the Red Brigades evolve through four increasingly violent phases of terror.
Ep 3:
Fifty-Five Days of Terror
Inside the fifty-five days that paralyzed Italy: Aldo Moro's desperate letters, a government's refusal to bend, and the historic compromise that made him a marked man.
Ep 4:
Shadows Behind Moro's Murder
Was Moro's death purely the Red Brigades' doing, or did spies, Mafia, and foreign powers play a hand? The aftermath brings collapse, crackdown, and a nation's reckoning.
Ep 5:
Anatomy of a Revolutionary
Who becomes a revolutionary killer? We profile the militants, dissect their flawed accelerationist strategy, and examine the singular Italian crises that made terrorism thinkable.
Ep 6:
Ashes of the Years of Lead
Decades after their fall, the Red Brigades' ideology resurfaces in new killings, forcing a reckoning with the lessons—and enduring dangers—of Italy's violent years of lead.
Discussions (11)
Landon
Level 4 · 10 mo agoSawyer says we don't know if the CIA was involved but come on. Moro literally told people he knew about US spies in the group. It seems pretty obvious they let it happen to stop the compromise lol.
Martha
Level 9 · 10 mo agobro calling them paranoid is wild when the state was literally bombing people first??
Sidney
Level 9 · 10 mo agoThat location was SYMBOLIC
