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Originally Posted by tom8517
Saw the trailer for the new film on the IRA's 1983 escape from the H blocks. It was a huge propaganda victory for the IRA, and an equally huge embarrassment for the Thatcher government. The Maze was supposed to be the most secure prison in Europe, 38 provos escaped in a commandered van. It remains the greatest mass prison break in British history
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That was big news all over the world. I was working in some shithole part of Arkansas at the time and it even made the TV news and the newspapers there.