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This was his first act of patriotism: refusing to defect. His reward: he was stripped of his team captaincy and given desk duty. He was threatened with exile to Siberia. He was beaten by government thugs. Using the Soviet court to sue the government, it turned out, wasn't very effective...
...little interest to anyone but collectors. "Heroes," ($3.50; 64pp.), a rapid-response poster book, came out a month and half after the disaster and has now gone into a third printing. It consists entirely of tableaus and portraits by Marvel's top talent past and present. Strangely reminiscent of Soviet-era monumentalism, most of the pages are like Alex Ross' sober cover depicting a fireman walking towards us, cradling a dark figure amidst a hellish glow of smoking ruins. There are a few Superheroes tossed in, usually to maudlin effect, as when a group of firefighters have Iron Man, Thor...
Back in the 1970s, Russian author Vladimir Voinovich wrote in The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Soldier Ivan Chonkin, his satirical novel on Soviet life: "Things on the collective farm were turning out bad. Well, not really all that bad, one could even say fine, but worse and worse every year...
...division of labor. Instead of flowing to those jobs that will produce the most valuable goods for consumers, labor would be allocated according to the politicized vagaries of some kind of official bargaining process. Who would gain under this framework? If the experience of Cuba, North Korea, Soviet Russia and Communist China is any guide...
...best of other countries and add a bit of our own." But can the French system be adapted to other football environments? The centralized approach to football, after all, is a variation on France's large, dirigiste state structure that liberals generally decry as reminiscent of Gaullist, if not Soviet, organization. Deschamps also notes France's system involves a collective effort between the FFF and French pro clubs that "can't afford to buy the best players the way foreign clubs do, so the only way they can survive economically is to produce them." Such cooperation is hard to imagine...