MYOWS Former Soviet Nations and Colonies

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Across
  1. 2. Ethnic group that had conflict with the Kyrgyz, despite both being Muslims who speak a Altaic language
  2. 4. What conflict freed most African and Asian colonies?
  3. 8. Non colony territories have no control over this aspect of government
  4. 10. One of the three Baltic states that Russia broke up into whose citizens are mostly Lutheran and speak a Uralic language
  5. 11. Country attacked by Russia in 2022 because President Valdimir Putin claims they have no ethnic distinction from Russia
  6. 12. The largest of the seventeen non self-governing territories
  7. 13. This non colony territory is owned by the kingdom of Denmark
  8. 14. One of the five central Asian states that the USSR broke into which suffers from civil war between Tajiks and an alliance of Muslims and Western-oriented intellectuals
  9. 15. Ethnically indistinguishable from Romanians; Their territory was part of Romania until seized by the USSR in 1940
Down
  1. 1. The Soviet Union was what type of state
  2. 3. One of the three Caucasus states that the USSR broke into
  3. 5. Where European states started to colonize after losing most of their Western Hemisphere clonies
  4. 6. One reason why European states established colonies around the globe
  5. 7. Islands whose colonies residents make a living by selling stamps
  6. 9. The number of states the USSR broke into