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The Soviet Union and some communist states have sponsored international terrorism on numerous occasions, especially during the Cold War.[1] NATO and the Italian, German and British governments saw violence in the form of "communist fighting organizations" as a serious threat.[2]
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Crozier, Brian (2005). Political Victory: The Elusive Prize Of Military Wars. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. pp. 202–203. ISBN 9781412831277. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
At its height, communism was the major threat to world peace, and by far the major source of international terrorism: that is, communist-inspired and/or communist-supported terrorism. Its hold on terrorist movements was not universal, however ...
- ^ Paoletti, Ciro (30 December 2007). A military history of Italy. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-98505-9.