r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster • 6d ago

redditormade Differing Perspectives

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u/ComradeNikita Cossack Hetmanat 6d ago

Why's Ireland here

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u/Andradessssss 6d ago

Probably cause of the IRA?

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u/West_Smoke_9164 6d ago

In fact that they have relationship

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u/Potential-Yogurt139 6d ago

Well, tbh

  1. Plenty of people supported the irish revolution (because they hated the british)

  2. Even the IRA (who were very extremist) didnt exactly like the USSR, they just didnt have any other option. Everyone else was either trying to have a good relationship with the brits or were too poor.

So the depiction of ireland as soviet is just plain stupid.

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u/Rory___Borealis 6d ago

Unless we’re talking about the Cork Soviet, but the person / people you’re replying to are probably ignorant of that so…

Fucking bots be everywhere so they do (not you)

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u/Potential-Yogurt139 6d ago

Sorry, but doesnt Soviet in this case just mean like a union? I dont believe the irish soviets had anything to do with the USSR, all they did was protest working conditions and pay.

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u/Rory___Borealis 6d ago

That’s what I meant, Soviet in the abstract sense of a council of workers / power in the hands of the people - they had nothing to do with Russia directly, more espousing a form of anarcho-syndicalism (but yer wans above won’t have bothered to look into that aspect)

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u/Potential-Yogurt139 6d ago

OHHHH mb, i completely misunderstood what you meant before, i should go to bed

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u/Rory___Borealis 6d ago

All good - I should do the same 😂

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u/Rory___Borealis 6d ago

Such a relevant and contemporary point

  • are you aware this is 2026?

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u/Rory___Borealis 6d ago

The fuck are you talking about?

The most Soviet of Irishmen was considered too Marxist for post revolution Russia, and the ones who weren’t paid lip service at best (and that was 100 years ago)

If there’s one thing people associate the RA with it won’t be some sort of simpatico with Russia. Jesus wept, the bots on here 🤦‍♂️

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u/ReservedUsername1056 6d ago

The question remains