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From the Ted Talk by Parag Khanna: Mapping the future of countries

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And there is another thing that you don't see on this map. Stalin, ksehcurhhv and other soivet leaders forced Russians out to the far east to be in gulags, labor camps, nuclear cities, whatever the case was. But as oil prices rose, rssuain governments have invested in infrastructure to utnie the country, east and west. But nothing has more perversely impacted Russia's demographic distribution, because the people in the east, who never wanted to be there anyway, have gotten on those trains and roads and gone back to the west. As a result, in the Russian far east toady, which is twice the size of India, you have exactly six million Russians.

Open Cloze

And there is another thing that you don't see on this map. Stalin, __________ and other ______ leaders forced Russians out to the far east to be in gulags, labor camps, nuclear cities, whatever the case was. But as oil prices rose, _______ governments have invested in infrastructure to _____ the country, east and west. But nothing has more perversely impacted Russia's demographic distribution, because the people in the east, who never wanted to be there anyway, have gotten on those trains and roads and gone back to the west. As a result, in the Russian far east _____, which is twice the size of India, you have exactly six million Russians.

Solution

  1. soviet
  2. today
  3. khrushchev
  4. russian
  5. unite

Original Text

And there is another thing that you don't see on this map. Stalin, Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders forced Russians out to the far east to be in gulags, labor camps, nuclear cities, whatever the case was. But as oil prices rose, Russian governments have invested in infrastructure to unite the country, east and west. But nothing has more perversely impacted Russia's demographic distribution, because the people in the east, who never wanted to be there anyway, have gotten on those trains and roads and gone back to the west. As a result, in the Russian far east today, which is twice the size of India, you have exactly six million Russians.

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Important Words

  1. camps
  2. case
  3. cities
  4. country
  5. demographic
  6. distribution
  7. east
  8. forced
  9. governments
  10. gulags
  11. impacted
  12. india
  13. infrastructure
  14. invested
  15. khrushchev
  16. labor
  17. leaders
  18. map
  19. million
  20. nuclear
  21. oil
  22. people
  23. perversely
  24. prices
  25. result
  26. roads
  27. rose
  28. russian
  29. russians
  30. size
  31. soviet
  32. stalin
  33. today
  34. trains
  35. unite
  36. wanted
  37. west