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How Did the Journey Continue With Learning Russian?
When he was a teenager, Alexander Nekrassov learned Russian to help him understand nuclear war. He also became fascinated by the links between Russia and other industrial areas in Europe at the same time as Donbas. The miners of County Durham had ties with the miners of Donbas going back to the 1920s. In 1984, when the miners strike took place they sent money and solidarity to the miners of County Durham. And there were formal exchanges between miners in the region the miners unions.