There is a key element of social engineering, an intelligence involvement in the counterculture. It was exported and weaponized by the c i a in the coldwar as contrasted with the soviet systemin that's kennety t. I'm surprised actually, that part of it didn't blow up. There were clear conflicts, and definitely probably involved some of those kinds of dynamics. One of the minhos a lover at the time, that they travelled to jordan with, they were going to execute him. They told the arabs that they thought he was a israeli spy. That's where you see a lot of the unseriousness set in.
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Growing up in the generation following the second world war, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof lead the West German militant Red Army Faction in a series of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations during the 1970s that led to the death of 35 people. Identifying with various leftist and communist causes including anti-imperialism, Maoism, and opposition to the Vietnam War, the group sought a break in their society from what they felt was a continuation of their parents’ generation of fascist government now under the control of what they saw as the American-led capitalist war machine. The group and their leaders in particular gained notoriety in the press and significant popularity amongst the youth of Germany, underscoring the generational divide that seemed to be growing in the shadow Nazi Germany’s defeat and subsequent de-Nazification process.
