kontextmaschine:

mitigatedchaos:

Reverse Harry Potter about a girl from a magical country that is sent to study in a land of engineering and industry.

In 1982, to prop up their “we’re communists, we swear” thing, the IRA sends some dreamy faerie-loving girl to Moscow U

Also that reminds me, you know how in the US, with its big Irish diaspora and its Anglophone background, the IRA and The Troubles didn’t seem like a communist thing, they seemed like a national self-determination thing?

That’s basically how every communist revolution ever was understood by the locals