Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9355654
“They did not forget about us, just like we didn’t in 1984,” said Vasyl.
Communities in Wales affected by the miners’ strike in the 1980s received much-needed support from the former Soviet Union, and from around the world.
It is a four-decades-old bond that bridges a strike and now a war, forged in shared experiences underground.
In Ukraine, there are currently hundreds, if not thousands, of miners fighting on the front lines in the war against Russia.
Not to say that back in 2014 clashes and provocations started* around Donetsk, one of the most notable mining regions not only in Ukraine, but in the whole ex-USSR, so the first victims to this war were probably miners as well.
* The first ones actually started way before in Kyiv, but these are the first that included in CTO, now war.