Yes he was, his father was a coal miner in WV. You can imagine where the saying came from.
Ahhh, good old Slovakia, once part of the the once glorious Czechoslovakia. Split their country in half by what was called the velvet divorce.
Known to be one of the largest if not largest car produces in the world (produces something akin to 40% of the world’s cars)
It is not amazing they would do this, their entire country’s output is dependent on oil.