User blog comment:TotalDarkness/First Season: Battle 3 - IRA VS Bolsheviks/@comment-4430998-20121116201429

My vote goes to the Bolsheviks mainly because many of them had training in the Russian Imperial Army, not to mention the fact that the Bolsheviks were able to take the crumbling Russian Empire and create the Soviet Union, one of the great superpowers of the 20th Century.

Another advantage the Bolsheviks have is that they were able to completely crush the White Army and the Imperial remnants, while the IRA was only able to liberate Southern Ireland, while Northern Ireland remained part of Great Britain.