Английский язык. Конова М.А. - 67 стр.

went abroad for business, they were blue) and passports for other citizens (red).
This system was 7) ….. (maintain) almost till the end of the 20th century.
     The situation 8) ….. (concern) domestic passports is also worthy of our
attention. After 1917 everybody's identity could be 9) ….. (establish) by any
document with a photo and a stamp. Until 1923 issuing such documents was a very
simple process: every governmental organization had the right lo prepare them.
     Nevertheless, by the end of the 1920s this anarchy could not be supported
anymore and a special commission was 10) ….. (create). The government aimed at
resolving three problems at the same time. First of all, to not allow people 11) …..
(live) in the countryside to leave their homes, secondly, to do the same with people
m cities and, finally, to control and persecute "enemies" of the Soviet regime.
     But passports were not given to everyone: only lo inhabitants of cities,
workers, and those who lived in a sovkhoz: People in the countryside had no
passport and were 12) ….. (prohibit) to leave their village for more than five days.
     Citizens who were living abroad would not take their interior passports with
them. If somebody planned to leave forever, he had to give his documents to a
special department.