| GORBACHEV | Mikhail ---, the final leader of the Soviet Union until 1991 (9) |
| REDARMY | Military of the Soviet Union until 1946, established by Leon Trotsky after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 (3,4) |
| SSRS | Members of a union until 1991: Abbr. |
| STEEL | David ___, final leader of the Liberal Party (5) |
| DAVIDSTEEL | Final leader of the Liberal Party |
| AVIVA | Insurance company which traded as Norwich Union until 2009 |
| CHERNENKO | Konstantin, Mikhail Gorbachev's predecessor as leader of the Soviet Union (9) |
| MACEDONIA | Republic that was part of Yugoslavia until 1991 (9) |
| LENINGRAD | Name for Saint Petersburg from 1924 until 1991 (9) |
| STALIN | Assumed name of the leader of the Soviet Union (1924 - 1953) (6) |
| LEONID | The leader of the Soviet Union, 1964-1982 (6,8 |
| BREZHNEV | The leader of the Soviet Union, 1964-1982 (6,8) |
| LENIN | Revolutionary who was the first leader of the Soviet Union (5) |
| KHRUSHCHEV | Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Nikita - (10) |
| USSR | Country whose final leader was Mikhail Gorbachev: Abbr. |
| ANDROPOV | Yuri ___, leader of the Soviet Union (as General Secretary of its Communist Party) who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in 1982 (8) |
| NIKITA | Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, _ Khruschev (6) |
| LAGOS | Port on the Gulf of Guinea: its country's capital until 1991 |
| PRAVDA | Russian newspaper which was the voice of communism until 1991 |
| OLAF | Five kings of Norway shared this name (the 5th until 1991). |
