Time with the Red Army Faction w/ Margrit Schiller [REMASTERED]
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 150 minutes
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Summary
In this remastered episode of Guerrilla History (originally released in June 2022), we bring on a very special guest, Margrit Schiller! Margrit was associated early on with the Red Army Faction, before being imprisoned and tortured by the West German state, being forced into exile in Cuba and Uruguay, and then having to move back to Germany more or less against her will. A fascinating life story from someone just as committed to the struggle as ever!
Margrit Schiller is author of Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction. We highly recommend picking yourself up a copy from PM Press (https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1195). Margrit's struggles within and against this system continue, and grabbing a copy of her book is a good way to help while we are still forced to operate within capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, guerrilla history listeners. This is co-host Henry, and I'm wishing you a happy |
| 0:06.1 | victory day on May 9th, 2025, the day of release. So if you are listening to this on the day of |
| 0:11.7 | release, today is Victory Day, the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism, Nazi fascism, |
| 0:20.0 | and the day in which the Soviet troops entered Berlin. |
| 0:23.8 | It's an important day to celebrate not only the victory over fascism, but to also honor those |
| 0:29.3 | who fell in the past. |
| 0:31.9 | The Soviet Union alone lost 27 million citizens in the struggle against fascism. |
| 0:39.3 | And it's important that we honor their memory today. |
| 0:42.3 | Personally, I am honoring the memory of my great Anton-Lah Elimei Abdeneneva, |
| 0:47.9 | who was the Red Army Scout operating covertly behind enemy lines in her native |
| 0:54.1 | occupied Crimea, Crimea, of course, |
| 0:57.5 | occupied by the Nazis in the early part of the war. And while she was operating behind |
| 1:02.8 | enemy lines with an injured leg after having parachuted behind enemy lines, gathering intelligence |
| 1:09.5 | on the Nazi troops there and transmitting it to the |
| 1:12.8 | Red Army in order to coordinate the efforts to liberate Crimea. |
| 1:16.7 | Eventually, she was captured, tortured, and executed at just the age of 20. |
| 1:22.8 | During her time while she was alive, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and posthumously, in 2014, |
| 1:30.6 | she was honored with Hero of the Russian Federation. Now, it's an interesting story as to why |
| 1:36.8 | she was honored with Hero of the Russian Federation and not Hero of the Soviet Union. At around |
| 1:41.9 | that time, those of you who know, and we have talked about this on the show in various episodes in passing, |
| 1:48.3 | but the Crimean Tatar population, and I should note that she was an indigenous Crimean Tatar, |
| 1:55.1 | was deported. |
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