2 June Movement of each other in late 1973, Inge Viett and Till Meyer escaped from prison. On 2 June 1980, the 2 June Movement disbanded. Some members joined the Red Army Faction. 2 June Movement The 2 June Movement () was a West German anarchist terrorist group based in West Berlin. Active from January 1972–1980, the anarchist group was one of the few violent groups at the time in West Germany. Although the 2 June Movement did not share the same ideology as the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang), these extremist organizations were allies. The 2 June Movement did not establish as
Red Army The Tsarist general Nikolay Dukhonin estimated that there had been 2 million deserters, 1.8 million dead, 5 million wounded and 2 million prisoners. He estimated the remaining troops as numbering 10 million. While the Imperial Russian Army was being taken apart, "it became apparent that the rag-tag Red Guard units and elements of the imperial army who had gone over the side of the Bolsheviks were quite inadequate to the task of defending the new government against external foes." Therefore, the Council of People's Commissars decided to form the Red Army on 28 January 1918. They envisioned a body "formed