| 100% | LENIN | 5 | Founder of the Soviet Union |
| 77% | LEONID | 6 | Brezhnev of the Soviet Union |
| 72% | LENIN | 5 | First premier of the Soviet Union |
| 72% | LENIN | 5 | First head of the Soviet Union |
| 71% | KGB | 3 | Spy agency of the Soviet Union: Abbr. |
| 71% | LENIN | 5 | Leader of the Soviet Union before Stalin |
| 70% | GORBACHEV | 9 | Eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union |
| 70% | RAISA | 5 | ___ Gorbachev, former first lady of the Soviet Union |
| 70% | TASS | 4 | Former principal news agency of the Soviet Union |
| 70% | RYKOV | 5 | Alexei —, premier of the Soviet Union from 1924-30 |
| 70% | STALIN | 6 | Ruler of the Soviet Union from 1924 until 1953 |
| 66% | EVIL | 4 | The Soviet Union's type of empire, according to President Reagan |
| 64% | USSR | 4 | Official name of the former Soviet Union |
| 63% | SITHOLE | 7 | Ndabaningi —, founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union who died in 2000 |
| 63% | RUSSIAN | 7 | East Slavic language of the former Soviet Union |
| 63% | BARBAROSSA | 10 | Operation —, code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War |
| 62% | NKOMO | 5 | Joshua —, founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union who died in 1999 |
| 61% | LEVYASHIN | 9 | Soviet Union and Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper; 1963 European Footballer of the Year |
| 59% | ASA | 3 | ___ Philip Randolph, civil rights activist and founder of the first AFL-chartered African American-led labor union |
| 58% | LENIN | 5 | First leader of the the Soviet Union |
| 58% | USSR | 4 | The Soviet Union |
| 57% | ZENO | 4 | Founder of the Stoics |
| 57% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers |
| 57% | CEO | 3 | Founder of the company |
| 57% | PLATO | 5 | Founder of the Academy |
| 57% | LEE | 3 | Founder of the Shakers |
| 57% | SMOKEYROBINSON | 14 | Founder of the Miracles |
| 56% | EVILEMPIRE | 10 | The Soviet Union, to Reagan |
| 56% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the American Shakers |
| 56% | CYRUS | 5 | Founder of the Persian Empire |