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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 ___.