The Russian people's attitude to life is largely governed by the climate. The Russian winter is known to (1) historians... as "General Winter" because of the (2) decisive ... part that low temperatures played in various attempt of (3) Western Europe to occupy Russia. The Russian climate can be summed up (4) briefly as : spring - wet: roads (5) impassable... from mud; summer - (6) unbearably ... hot: roads turned into dust tracks; autumn - wet: roads (7) impassable... from mud; winter (8) awfully ... cold: roads (9) impassable... from snow.
