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1850Sabotage  

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Scope note

  • Deliberate action by small army or guerilla groups, or even by activists associated with social movements, aiming at damaging means of production or infrastructure in order to weaken a government in times of internal conflict or war. During World War II anti-German resistance groups in Europe practiced effective sabotage against factories, military installations, railroads, bridges etc. Sabotage became a basic strategy of insurgent groups associated with anticolonial and separatist movements.

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  • Zander 2017

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  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Tzedopoulos Giorgos (AA)

Notation

  • 1850

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