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mitigatedchaos:

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

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In 1982, to prop up their \u201cwe\u2019re communists, we swear\u201d thing, the IRA sends some dreamy faerie-loving girl to Moscow U

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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

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