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🚨1/#Unionisms stormtroopers and their 'reign of terror'. A story of the 'Ulster Volunteer Force' in police uniform that morphed into the 'birth of the B-men' and the creation of #UlsterSpecials in 1920 coming up soon in this thread.....
2/ British PM David Lloyd George agreed to create an armed special constabulary in the north in 1920 and that recruitment begin in asap, but in reality it merely formalised the already illegal Protestant militia's stocking the cities, villages and hamlets of Ulster. Some of the
3/ new Ulster Special Constabulary (USC) were committed to the new regimes survival with 'God and Ulster' emblazoned on their hearts, with the added bonus of letting rip on the minority community through shameful, cowardly and murderous atrocities with a keen eye on the wages and
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