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1.The 1990 thriller “The Hunt for Red ____” stars Sean Connery as a Soviet submarine captain who wants to defect to America.

5. The 2021 Netflix miniseries “The Queen’s Gambit” showed the fascinating world of Soviet chess, with the main opponent Vasily Borgov based off this real-life Soviet grandmaster, Boris ___.

6. Hulu’s 2020 series “The Great” tells the story of Russia’s longest-reigning female ruler.

7. Natasha ____, codename “Black Widow,” from the Marvel “Avengers” shares her last name with the last royal family of Russia.

10. The FX 2013 series “The Americans” follows a family of sleeper agents belonging to this Russian secret service force.

11.The 2019 film “Mr Jones” tells the story of a journalist who tries to uncover the truth about the devastating forced famine in Ukraine in 1933, also known as the ____.

12. The 2017 dark comedy “The Death of ___” explores the chaos which ensued after the USSR's leading “man of steel” died in 1953.

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2. The 1985 film “White Nights” tells the story of a Soviet ballet dancer who defected to the West -- coincidentally, the same story of its star performer, Mikhail ____.

3. The musical “Fiddler on the Roof” follows Tevia and his family as they endure discrimination & violence in their small Russian village for being ____.

4. This 2019 HBO miniseries details the grisly story of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

8. This 1997 animated musical tells the story of Tsar Nicholas II’s youngest daughter, thought to have been murdered with the rest of her family in 1918.

9. In 1963’s “From Russia with Love,” this British intelligence officer faces off against the crime syndicate SPECTRE.

10. In “Mission Impossible IV: Ghost Protocol,” Tom Cruise & Co. infiltrate the seat of the Russian government in Moscow, also known as the ___.