what was the 'red terror'?

Answer 1

when communism was big in other countries and people feared it was going to take over the world

Answer 2

In the 1950's we were told to be afraid of and hate The Reds. That was the slang term for COMMUNISTS, and applied to Russian and Chinese people primarily. Even today you here the term "pinko liberals."
Today we are supposed to be afraid of and hate Islamic people which replaced communism in the early 1990's.

Answer 3

The Ethiopian Red Terror or Qey Shibir (also Key Shibbir, etc., Amharic: ቀይ ሽብር ḳey šibbir; 1977-1978) was a violent political campaign in Ethiopia undertaken during the leadership of the Derg, a socialist military junta. In December 2006, Mengistu Haile Mariam was convicted in absentia for his role in the Red Terror while leader of Ethiopia.From 1977 to early 1978, a rebellion against the new government ensued and was suppressed, resulting in many casualties. In response to guerrilla attacks from the anti-Mengistu Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP), Mengistu declared that the EPRP had begun a campaign of "White Terror." Anti-Mengistu forces, however, accused Mengistu's Workers Party of waging a campaign of "Red Terror."

Mengistu's campaign against anti-government guerrillas was launched with a speech delivered in Revolution (formerly and currently Mesqel or "Holy Cross") Square in the heart of Addis Ababa. He included the Eritrean secessionists Shabia or Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), Jebha or the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), the monarchist Ethiopian Democratic Union (EDU), the Woyane or Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) in this hunt along with the EPRP.

Another factor to the Red Terror were the famines that were kept secret from the international community. Millions of people died, especially in Wollo and Tigrai areas. In addition, there were frustrated peasant men and farmers who revolted against the government alongside the guerrilla fighters. In response, Mengistu designed the relocation project that caused one of the worst humaniatarian crises of the decade. From 1975-1978, Mengistu was responsible for the 7th worst genocide in world history. Around 1,500,000 Ethiopians were the victims of the Derg genocide.[1]

In response to guerrilla attacks from the EPRP, Mengistu gave counter-insurgency forces the authority to arrest, detain, and execute insurgents. From 1977-78, counter-insurgency forces pursued countless suspected insurgents. Military gains made by the monarchist EDU in Begemder were rolled back when that party split just as it was on the verge of capturing the old capital of Gondar. The army of the Republic of Somalia stepped in to aid the WSLF in the Ogaden region, and was on the verge of capturing Harrar and Dire Dawa, when Somalia's erstwhile allies, the Soviets and the Cubans, launched an unprecedented arms and personnel airlift to come to Ethiopia's rescue. The Derg regime turned back the Somali invasion, and made deep strides against the Eritrean secessionists and the TPLF as well. By the end of the seventies, Mengistu presided over the second largest army in all of sub-Saharan Africa, and a sizeable airforce and navy as well.

Answer 4

It was the type of torture performed by the Bolsheviks once they came to power in Russia, particularly Stalin and the Great Purge of the 1930's

Answer 5

mass arrests, deportations and executions carried out by the bolshevik government in early soviet russia between the years 1918-1922

Answer 6

I think you mean the red scare. It means fear of communism.

Answer 7

My mother-in-law (she has red hair).

Just kidding.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_terror