An outstanding documentary on Al Jazeera about desparate Ukrainian miners working abandoned mines to salvage coal which was previously thought uneconomical to extract. These people risk their lives to eek out a meagre living.

The slapped-on happy-ending makes it easier to watch, but I can’t help but wonder what Democracy and the end of the Soviet Union really got them. Their daughters now populate brothels in Germany and elsewhere–willingly and otherwise. Sex tourism and mail-order brides have become the lot of them.

Of course,  Democratic stock footage assures us that they have gained.