Analyses show that labourers on the pyramids and even ancient slaves earned greater wages than a worker in Yugoslavia today What is one to do when the price of food (and everything else) is increasing and there is practically no salary, when a general of a famed army receives a monthly salary of 50 Deutch Marks (according to the official […]

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