Many articles have been published about the history of the RAF (Red Army Faction). And Tarasov, for example, is considered an expert on this issue in Russia. But before us is the most complete RAF Chronicle in Russian. Is a chronicle necessary at all? On such and such a date, such and such a year, Baader went there, Meinhof went there. Is this relevant? If you are preparing yourself for parliamentary struggle and numerous holiday demonstrations, then you do not need the story of a bunch of partisans keeping the entire German establishment at bay. You can criticize Rafovites for extremism. Their story is a story of continuous failures and defeats, arrests, and random murders. What were they trying to achieve? Two dozen educated, quite wealthy people suddenly went underground, began robbing banks, and arming themselves. Why didn't they like beer? They probably did. The book answers this question (not about beer). In addition to a direct description of the methods of the RAF, this book proves that even a dead rebel can defeat the machine of the system (if not broken, then spoiled). If you still read the book, do not skip the afterwords and prefaces, perhaps these are the most important places in the text. The anonymous translator brilliantly explains the strange title of the book at first glance: “Television Dreamers.” I can’t help myself, I’ll quote one place: “Dream about good things: how you will win the lottery, or end up in bed with Miss World, or about a nice car, or how cool it would be to go fishing with friends and drink a bottle there.” beer. Such dreams can come true. And to dream of living in a free state, so that no one will mess with your brains and force you to do what you don’t want, and not interfere with doing what you want, and so that no one will. If you haven’t used it, leave it alone. Why dream about the impossible.”… Decide for yourself who the TV dreamers are.

© Boris Kagarlitsky