By Viktor Suvorov
Viktor Suvorov is a Soviet military officer who has defected to the West. this is the complete tale of the Spetsnaz forces, the Soviet army's mystery killer elite.
This is the 1st entire perception for the West right into a Soviet "army inside of an army" whose life has been identified until eventually lately in simple terms to some hugely put people--most of whom could deny it.
The spetsnaz Soviet specific forces are one of many extra shadowy and ruthless mystery particular forces on the planet. managed via army intelligence (the GRU), spetsnaz devices are recruited from the ranks of the hardest officials and males within the Soviet military, the leading edge of Soviety army may perhaps. In sleek conflict their basic activity is the destruction of enemy tactical nuclear guns, however the education of someone chosen for spetsnaz prepares her or him for an enormous diversity of tasks--from undercover task as a member of a Soviet Olympic activities workforce to piloting a midget submarine.
As an officer within the GRU, the writer used to be without delay enthusiastic about the keep an eye on and making plans of spetsnaz. during this revealing and infrequently surprising publication, he talks approximately his personal event; in regards to the army code of an armed strength that kills its personal wounded; in regards to the guns, process, and coaching. For somebody drawn to the real army strength of the Soviet Union, this publication is vital interpreting.
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The Commission’s proposal for a Directive on an internal market for pension funds was thus completely at odds with the French approach to organizing pensions and to regulating investment constraints for institutions of retirement provision. The high degree of policy misfit alone should have already been sufficient to trigger the opposition of the French government. Yet, bridging this gap between national policy arrangements and supranational requirements that were to be defined through the proposal was further complicated by the interests embedded within the French system.
Where the proposal for a Council Directive outlined investment rules according to the prudent person rule by stating, for example, that “the assets shall be sufficiently diversified in such a way as to avoid major accumulations of risk in the portfolio as a whole” (article 4 (1) b), the Communication simply replaced the word “shall” with the word “should” (Commission 1994: 10). Similarly, both documents contained almost identical provisions with respect to obligations regarding currency matching.
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