With the VFA and VFL refusing to recognise each other's permits, playing under different codes of rules, actively promoting their own codes, and operating under different player payment structures, Australian rules football was enduring a schism analogous to the divide which existed for a century, and from an on-field perspective still exists, between the union codes of Rugby football.
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According to Lenin, the author of these quotations, soviet rule " is nothing else than the organized form of the dictatorship of the proletariat . " A code of rules governing elections to the soviets was framed in March 1918, but the following classes were disqualified to vote : " Those who employ others for profit; those who live on incomes not derived from their own work interest on capital, industrial enterprises or landed property; private business men, agents, middlemen; monks and priests of all denominations; ex-employees of the old police services and members of the Romanov dynasty; lunatics and criminals ."
