When Hitler marched his soldiers into Poland in 1939, and Stalin gave the order for the takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, they were not worrying about what this would mean for how they would do in the next election.

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The Order was defiant, declaring that the murderers of the Quinn boys were not Orangemen, and they marched as far as the troops allowed them.

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