25 Years After the USSR
Lesson Brief
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August 19 marked 25 years since the fall of the Soviet Union. Today's set, written by a well-known Russian blogger, focuses on the current wave of nostalgia for the USSR that seems to have gripped Russian citizens in recent years and how this yearning for the past, in his view, has an extremely negative impact on present-day Russian society.
Click and Match
- insult
- оскорбление
- executioner
- палач
- to disintegrate, fall apart
- распадаться, распасться
- tick, checkmark
- галочка
- to dig out of a little grave
- достать из могилки
- to fall into a coma
- впасть в ко́му
- adversity, misery
- невзгода
- to destroy, demolish
- уничтожать, уничтожить
- infection
- зараза
- voter, constituent
- избиратель