Exklusiv: Der Chef der Eisenbahngewerkschaft sang pro-russische Gesänge in der besetzten Ukraine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/16/union-boss-eddie-dempsey-sang-pro-russian-chants/
Von StGuthlac2025
Exklusiv: Der Chef der Eisenbahngewerkschaft sang pro-russische Gesänge in der besetzten Ukraine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/16/union-boss-eddie-dempsey-sang-pro-russian-chants/
Von StGuthlac2025
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Revoke his citizenship and let them die for Russia then. I can’t understand why there are so many far left and far right Russian shills
Nothing says anti-imperialism quite like supporting Russia’s imperialist invasion of Crimea.
[The New Statesmen](https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/06/eddie-dempsey-on-why-britain-needs-a-trade-union-revival) covered this during a feature of Dempsey last summer:
>More controversially, in 2015 Dempsey visited the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and was pictured with pro-Russian separatists. He told me this was “part of a humanitarian visit” prompted by the deaths of trade unionists at the hands of ultra-nationalists in Odesa the previous year. Nevertheless, as head of one of the most visible, public-facing organisations in the British labour movement, at a time of ongoing war in Ukraine, Dempsey may find this episode is not easily forgotten.
The incident in Odesa itself that Dempsey was referring to was last year [ruled by the ECHR](https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng) that Ukraine violated human rights over its failure to prevent and properly investigate the 2014 Odesa fire, ordering compensation for victims and families.
TLDR: he went to a communist meeting in Donbas in 2015, long before the invasion, when he was just a regular tube driver, and this has been known about for years.
The “Pro-Russian” chants were from WW2. “United we are invincible” and “The Donbas, the tomb of fascism”.
Wow, so evil.
Telegraph dragging its own name through the mud with these non stories
>Mr Dempsey, whose union has repeatedly brought British train services and the Tube to a halt through strike action, was attending an “anti-fascist” event in the city of Alchevsk, organised by Luhansk Communist Party on behalf of the Prizrak Brigade, a separatist group.
Self proclaimed “anti-fascist” turning out to be a Communist Russia sympathiser? I’m _shocked_
Of course, in the interests of fair reporting, The Telegraph has been writing extensively about Nigel Farage and Reform U.K.’s Russian links and grifting…..??🤔
I abhor anyone or any organisation in the U.K. grifting for Russia and Putin’s regime.