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Soviet Union miners union also took 100 British miners in 1984 and their families to a health resort on the Black Sea in Soviet Georgia (Pitsunda, Abkhazia). ‘'It's a chance of a lifetime. I've never been further than Yarmouth before,' Margaret Ricalton, a miners' wife from Ashington’
In addition, Workers in Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and so on collected money and resources and sent it to British strikers. Worth $1.138 million. Of course the British government seized most of it and made the British miners pay a heavy customs fee to get it.
“I think I’d starve without these food parcels”
#OnThisDay 1984. The first food parcels from the Soviet Union began to arrive to striking miners in Wigan.
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isn't it funny how we all wanted big careers with fancy titles and now we just want a regulated nervous system with the time to do what we want
Graduated high school into the financial crisis, basically never had a shot in the conventional sense. Doubled down on wage labour, transsexualism, and an MFA in the face of austerity. Eat shit losers.
"Painful" years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall
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It would be nice if more people talked about the movie in the context of the power of images in the context of global exchange, ubiquity and ultimately their believability.
Replying to @texjoytrapper
It’s sort of a takedown on the idea of documentaries and whether anyone is a “reliable narrator”










