The Soviet Union was once a mighty empire, controlling large chunks of land in Europe and Asia, and giving the West a might enemy. And then it all fell apart; the individual states (many of them incorporated by force) wanted their freedom, and Boris Yeltsin wanted his own Russia to rule, and so the Soviet [...]
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The European Union has been constantly coming up against public pressure from time to time. Its attempts to make treaties that bring the countries into a tighter Union typically run against the gauntlet of public opinion. The treaties come up for voting in different countries, and the conditions have always been set that the treaties [...] |
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