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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 kil

by s_dev 5y ago

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.

boomboomsubban 5y ago
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.
- rurai 5y ago
  It was the IRA in 1925 reaching out to the Soviets for monetary support to continue on an armed struggle
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    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.