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Re:The First Soviet in Ireland by s_dev on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:52PM (#28459752)
I recall an anecdote about 1916 Easter Rising leaders traveling to Russia to gain military support but were refuted on the grounds that "because they hadn't killed the Bishops" they weren't serious about a Revolution.
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Re:The First Soviet in Ireland by boomboomsubban on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:12PM (#28460073)
That anecdote doesn't make sense. The Easter Rising was a fairly short ordeal, Tsarist Russia never would have provided military support to an allies insurrection, and the internal Russian revolutionaries had very little support to offer.
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Re:The First Soviet in Ireland by rurai on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:09PM (#28462389)
It was the IRA in 1925 reaching out to the Soviets for monetary support to continue on an armed struggle
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Re:The First Soviet in Ireland by boomboomsubban on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:10PM (#28463118)
So looking it up based on that, the source is Tim Pat Coogan, born 1935, and the USSR did make a deal with the IRA.
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