CM’s Reviews > Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 > Status Update

Very surprised to learn of the highly tumultuous past of Italy in the 70s. So at their peak, the Red Brigade could kidnapped, and later murdered, a former prime minister in the capital (in broad daylight), judges in their court and head of anti-terror unit at his home(which is not even in Italy).

And they were able to do they because they had enormous support from the public...?

So the 70s sowed the seed of Brexit ,and neoliberalism.

"But in the circumstances of the later 1970s, a government in London—or Stockholm, or Rome—facing intractable unemployment, or failing industries, or inflationary wage demands, could point helplessly at the terms of an IMF loan, or the rigours of pre-negotiated intra-European exchange rates, and disclaim liability."