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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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