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The Impact of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on RAF
Matějková, Nikola ; Renner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Daňková, Šárka (referee)
The terrorist group Red Army Fraction ("RAF"), which jeopardized the public security with their attacks in West Germany since the seventies and killed more than three thousand people, issued a statement of official closure on April 20, 1998 after 28 years of its activity. This thesis tries to answer the question whether the fall of the Berlin Wall brought the final dissolution of the group. In addition to geopolitical changes it is also necessary to take into account the instruments of the national security policy and the split of opinion within the group. The geopolitical reversal in 1989 had two negative impacts on the RAF. Firstly it meant a devastating ideological defeat for them, even though the former GDR or any other Eastern Bloc country did not respond fully to their expectations. Another shock for them was the arrest of ten former RAF-members who were hiding in the GDR under a false identity. They eventually filed an extensive testimony, so that their sentences could be commuted. Federal Republic of Germany, which had not been too successful in the fight against terrorism up to this time, used the internal weakness of the RAF caused by political circumstances and it finally introduced new instruments to further destabilize the group and led to a rift between prisoners and members at large....
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Political extremism, its occurrence in the Pilsen region and ways of prevention.
DUCHEK, Ondřej
In this work, I´ve focused on the extremism in the Czech Republic, specifically in the Pilsen Region. Because of the Czech Republic being a part of the European culture, I worked the topic of extremism in the context of Western Europe in the theoretical part. It is also important because the Czech right - wing and left - wing extremist scene sources more or less from the Western European roots of right - wing and left - wing extremism. In the theoretical part I introduce the reasons of the extremism presence in the society, what roots it comes from, I define basic terms and historical development within Europe in the past decades. I also refer to the extremism in Czech Republic after the year 1989 till present. In the practical part I worked on the topic of extremism in Pilsen Region specifically. This is based on the information received from policemen responsible for extremist crimes investigations. In the end of the practical part the readers may learn the survey results. I explored the high school youth and its relationship with various extremist movements in the country. At last I attemted to prepare the educational materials suitable for the primary prevention in the high schools.
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Social and cultural background of followers of extremist movement in Pilsen region
ŘEŘICHA, Vít
This bachelor thesis focuses on the person who sympathizes with right/left-wing extremism. In theoretical part there are described knowledge comming from real experts in field of extremism and that part also includes opinions and attitudes of people who focus on development of extremism in the Czech republic. Post-November development of radical scene in Czech republic is mapped and after that described through the eyes of experts. In several chapters of this work I deal with persons who sympathizes with extremist movement by introducing subcultures that create them and I also deal with typology of individual who can became an extremist. This work presents also the view of experts who continuously monitor criminal aspects of the behavior of people moving on the extremist scene. The practical part focuses on case study based on sample surveys, preparation of detailed case studies through interviews with individual extremists. The research will help to answer questions about how life affects the way individuals belonging to a right-wing or left-wing extremism. I will try to explain from which social strata come right-wing and left-wing supporters of extremism.
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