It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.
Chernobyl, an accident or the most successful anti-Marxist attack in recorded history?
So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.
I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.
...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.
There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities of extra-Europ...
Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.
Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.