I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Kenyano show.

Thomas, how are you doing?

I'm well.

I've been recuperating from being on the road in the old glory club event, which was fantastic.

You know, I just, the road kind of wears me out.

But the event was great.

But I've been trying to catch up on some, I got some things on the can, even though it doesn't seem like I'm busy, like I'm always working on stuff, you know. So yeah, things are well, man. I appreciate you hosting me as always. Awesome. Well, we're going to start something new tonight. And why don't you introduce it? I think this one may be more than anything we've ever done. People are going to have questions about, especially if they do not know the subject. Because let's face it, these are, this is a group of people that, from the outside looking in,

you'd be, why are you talking about them? You know, you'd ask a question, why are you talking about them? Well, it's a huge topic. That's why I needed extra time to prep for it. Then I still,

it's going to take a few episodes to

fully flesh it out. And it touches and concerns things that far supersede and transcend

typical Cold War intrigues and, you know, violence between the superpowers sort of open war it

wasn't typical ledgered main of the sort that you know characterized the dynamic

especially in the final phase of the Cold War from you know the America's defeat in Vietnam until until the wall came down we're talking of course about the Bader Meinhuecheng or um colloquially the Red Army faction they called themselves the rote army fraction

and that was deliberate it was somewhat mistranslated but also news people and law enforcement

and security state types thought they thought of the typo, but those were deliberate.

You know, the idea is that there was an organic whole that constituted the dialectical process as regards communism.

And what the Bader-Mindhoff gang or group or army represented was this fractious element that was the vanguard of the dialectical process, as well as something that was organically developing in real time.

You know, now, on the surface, these kids were just, and most of them were kids,

and there was three iterations that Bader Meinhauf slash Red Army Faction.

And we'll get into that.

At a glance, and the way it was presented in Western media,

it was basically that these were,

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