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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 insurrecti
by 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 agoIt was the IRA in 1925 reaching out to the Soviets for monetary support to continue on an armed struggle
- boomboomsubban 5y agoSo looking it up based on that, the source is Tim Pat Coogan, born 1935, and the USSR did make a deal with the IRA.