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MILAN (" milan ( e )" is French for kite ) is a European anti - tank guided missile . Design of the MILAN started in ___MASK3___ , it was ready for trials in ___MASK79___ , and was accepted for service in 1972 . It is a wire guided SACLOS ( semi - automatic command to line - of - sight ) missile , which means the sight of the launch unit has to be aimed at the target to guide the missile . The MILAN can be equipped with a MIRA or MILIS thermal sight to give it night - firing ability . The Workers and Peasants ' Bloc ( in Catalan : Bloc Obrer i Camperol , in Spanish : Bloque Obrero y Campesino ; BOC ) was a `` Right Opposition '' communist group in Spain . BOC was founded in Barcelona in ___MASK91___ , as the mass front of the Catalan - Balearic Communist Federation ( FCCB ) , after the merger of the Catalan Communist Party into FCCB . FCCB , which made up the nucleus of BOC , later changed its name to Iberian Communist Federation , thus stating its intention to expand itself and BOC throughout Spain . The central publication of BOC was La Batalla . BOC also published L ' Hora and El Front in Barcelona , L ' Espurna in Girona and Avant in Lleida . Prominent leaders of BOC were Joaquín Maurín , Hilari Arlandis , Jordi Arquer , Pere Bonet , Víctor Colomer and Abelard Tona Nadalmai . In November 1935 , the majority of BOC merged with the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain , to form the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ; Spanish : Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista ; Catalan : Partit Obrer d ' Unificació Marxista ) . The minority stayed out of the merger and later joined the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ( PSUC ) . Ceuta ( assimilated pronunciation , also Arabic :  , " Sabtah ") is an Spanish autonomous city located on the north coast of Africa , sharing a western border with Morocco . Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of Gibraltar , Ceuta lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean . Ceuta , along with the Spanish exclave Melilla , is one of nine populated Spanish territories in Africa and one of two populated territories on mainland Africa . It was part of Cádiz province until 14 March ___MASK66___ when the city ' s Statute of Autonomy was passed . The European Union ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and home affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , agriculture , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in ___MASK22___ and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency . The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about ___MASK61___ percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin ( 15 March ___MASK67___ ) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary , Soviet politician and prolific author on revolutionary theory . As a young man , he spent six years in exile , working closely with fellow exiles Lenin and Trotsky . After the revolution of February ___MASK43___ , he returned to Moscow , where his Bolshevik credentials earned him a high rank in the party , and after the October Revolution , he became editor of the party newspaper " Pravda ." Within the bitterly divided Bolsheviks , his gradual move to the right , as a defender of the New Economic Policy ( NEP ), positioned him favourably as Stalin ' s chief ally , and together they ousted Trotsky , Zinoviev and Kamenev from the party leadership . From 1926 to 1929 , Bukharin enjoyed great power as General Secretary of Comintern ' s executive committee . But Stalin  s decision to proceed with collectivisation drove the two men apart , and Bukharin was expelled from the Politburo in 1929 . Paris ( French : ) is the capital and most populous city of France . It has an area of and a population in ___MASK59___ of 2 , 229 , 621 within its administrative limits . The city is both a commune and department , and forms the centre and headquarters of the Île - de - France , or Paris Region , which has an area of and a population in ___MASK100___ of 12 , 005 , 077 , comprising 18 . 2 percent of the population of France . Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . Biography . Born in Barcelona in ___MASK94___ . During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera , he participated in the clandestine opposition , collaborating with the independentista groups of Francesc Macià . He was a part of the Centre Autonomista de Dependents del Comerç i de la Indústria and the newspaper " Lluita ". In ___MASK30___ he was one of the founders of the Círculo de Estudios Marxistas ( Circle of Marxist Studies ), and in 1928 participated in the clandestine congress of the " Partit Comunista Català " ( Catalan Communist Party ), which attracted Marxist militants from the Estat Català . Once the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed , he was one of the founders of Bloc Obrer i Camperol ( BOC ) and an advocate of the Working Alliance ( Aliança Obrera ). In 1931 he published " Los comunistas ante el problema de las nacionalidades ibéricas ", and after reviewing the history of Catalonia and the Catalan movement , was favorable to the recognition of self - determination of Catalonia and indicated the convenience of a Union of Iberian Socialist Republics . During the Spanish Civil War ___MASK20___  1939 he was one of the organizers and heads of the POUM column that operated on the Aragon front . Barcelona is the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in the Kingdom of Spain , as well as the country ' s second most populous municipality , with a population of 1 . 6 million within city limits . Its urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 4 . 7 million people , being the sixth - most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris , London , Madrid , the Ruhr area and Milan . It is the largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea , located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs , and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range , the tallest peak of which is high . Africa is the world ' s second - largest and second - most - populous continent . At about 30 . 3 million km² ( 11 . 7 million square miles ) including adjacent islands , it covers 6 % of Earth ' s total surface area and 20 . 4 % of its total land area . With 1 . 1 billion people as of ___MASK59___ , it accounts for about 15 % of the world ' s human population . The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast , the Indian Ocean to the southeast , and the Atlantic Ocean to the west . The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos . It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states ( countries ), nine territories and two " de facto " independent states with limited or no recognition . The Right Opposition (" Pravaya oppozitsiya ") was the name given to the tendency made up of Nikolai Bukharin , Alexei Rykov , Mikhail Tomsky and their supporters within the Soviet Union in the late 1920s . It is also the name given to " right - wing " critics within the Communist movement internationally , particularly those who coalesced in the International Communist Opposition , regardless of whether they identified with Bukharin and Rykov . Note that the designation "" Right " Opposition " refers to the position of this movement relative to the other Communist movements on the traditional spectrum . Relative to contemporary political centrism , the Right Opposition is still very firmly on the Left . Catalan Communist Party was a political party in Catalonia , Spain . PCC was founded in ___MASK99___ . It had its origins in " l ' Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular ", which had been formed in 1926 , and in the Marxist sectors of the Catalan separatist movement . The main leaders of PCC were Jordi Arquer and Víctor Colomer . Melilla ( " Maliliyyah ") is a Spanish autonomous city located on the north coast of Africa , sharing a border with Morocco with an area of . Melilla , along with Ceuta , is one of two permanently inhabited Spanish cities in mainland Africa . It was part of Málaga province until 14 March ___MASK66___ when the city ' s Statute of Autonomy was passed .