| 100% | SSRS | 4 | Former union mems. |
| 62% | SSR | 3 | Old union mem. |
| 62% | EXES | 4 | Former union members? |
| 61% | SSR | 3 | Former Union member: Abbr. |
| 61% | SSRS | 4 | Former union members: Abbr. |
| 60% | SOVIET | 6 | Former ___ Union |
| 56% | SSR | 3 | Div. of a former union |
| 56% | UAR | 3 | Former polit. union |
| 55% | SSRS | 4 | Members of a former union: Abbr. |
| 55% | ABEL | 4 | Former steelworkers' union chief |
| 53% | EEC | 3 | Former trade union, for short |
| 51% | ORD | 3 | Former fort named for a Union general |
| 49% | STALIN | 6 | Former Soviet Union dictator, after Lenin's death |
| 49% | SAG | 3 | Former labor union which merged with AFTRA: Abbr. |
| 49% | WALESA | 6 | Former Polish President who once led a union |
| 49% | TASS | 4 | Former principal news agency of the Soviet Union |
| 47% | USSR | 4 | Official name of the former Soviet Union |
| 47% | IMIOLEK | 7 | Lee —, former Sale Sharks rugby union prop |
| 46% | RUSSIAN | 7 | East Slavic language of the former Soviet Union |
| 46% | RAISA | 5 | ___ Gorbachev, former first lady of the Soviet Union |
| 45% | TALEI | 5 | Netani —, former Fiji and Harlequins rugby union back-rower |
| 45% | BOTICA | 6 | Frano —, former New Zealand and Croatia rugby union player |
| 45% | LAPANDRY | 8 | Alexandre —, former France and Clermont Auvergne rugby union flanker |
| 44% | KENPISI | 7 | Former Northampton Saints rugby union wing; 2012 Samoa Test debutant against Tonga |
| 44% | DEANMUMM | 8 | Former Australia, NSW Waratahs and 2012-15 Exeter Chiefs rugby union lock |
| 43% | DEANMUMM | 8 | Australia, NSW Waratahs and former Exeter Chiefs rugby union lock |
| 43% | RIVES | 5 | Jean-Pierre —, former France rugby union captain nicknamed Golden Helmet |
| 43% | IMIOLEK | 7 | Lee —, former Sale Sharks and Leeds Carnegie rugby union prop |
| 43% | ASHE | 4 | Adam —, former Glasgow Warriors and Scotland rugby union back-rower |
| 43% | NYANGA | 6 | Yannick —, former France rugby union flanker; at Toulouse 2005-15 |