Russian Political Figures

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Across
  1. 2. Secret Police Chief under Stalin, responsible for the Katyn massacre
  2. 5. This final leader of the USSR was in a 1997 Pizza Hut commercial
  3. 6. The Bolshevik architect of red terror and the founder of the secret police was known as Iron ___
  4. 9. He served as the first President of Russia from 1991-99
  5. 10. The hangman’s noose in early 1900s Russia became known as __’s necktie
  6. 11. This President of Russia loves to ride bears with his shirt off, and is rumored to have stolen the Super Bowl XXXIX ring from the Patriots
  7. 12. Tsar ___ II, the last Tsar of Russia, was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, along with the rest of his murdered family
Down
  1. 1. This Georgian head of the USSR was originally sent to seminary to become a priest
  2. 2. This leader of the USSR in the 70s was notable for his age and eyebrows
  3. 3. This rival of Stalin was assassinated in Mexico City with an ice axe
  4. 4. Threw his shoe in anger at a UN conference
  5. 7. This revolutionary head of the Bolshevik Party, originally named Vladimir Ulyanov, renamed himself in honor of the life-giving River Lena in Siberia
  6. 8. The ___ cocktail, an improvised incendiary device, was named after this Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1939-49