Can you name the countries that were formerly part of the soviet union'?

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Former Soviet States Quiz

by Derek

Created Feb 16, 2009 in Geography
Featured Feb 16, 2009
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	Kevin:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 04:10 GMT	1 point
	I got crossed up on the Central Asian -stan's. Oh well, 11/15 isn't terrible.

	Jaksiel:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 04:11 GMT	70 points
	I almost forgot Russia. And seeing the results...a lot of people did forget Russia.

	RandallPinkston:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 04:12 GMT	41 points
	I wonder what percentage had the same breakdown as me--14/15, missing the headslappingly obvious one (Eurasia).

	Rossum:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT	8 points
	I had that same breakdown until the last minute! Darned Russia! :-)

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	Gordo:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 05:41 GMT	10 points
	Forgot Russia. Damn.

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	Liberal:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 06:01 GMT	28 points
	Why are people forgetting Russia?

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	deej:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 06:41 GMT	11 points
	i am really good at geography and i forgot Russia. it is so obvious your brain doesn't even think of it

	jaspa:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 07:02 GMT	87 points
	Alright, I'll say it... In Soviet Russia, Quiz take YOU!

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	pdu:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 08:04 GMT	-1 points
	I also thought of Russia last -.-

	davidr:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 08:18 GMT	28 points
	@Observer: Russia is not `still technically part of the Soviet Union' because the Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991. If you're thinking of the Commonwealth of Indepedent States, that's not even remotely comparable.

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	NHJ:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 08:55 GMT	5 points
	Really, the hardest part is spelling the English names correctly.

	chambers:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 09:08 GMT	2 points
	all of em nearly missed the eurasian one...

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	rahv:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:26 GMT	11 points
	@mr badman: as far as i know finland and the soviet union didn't get along so well (although the SU did have a lot of influence in finland). anyway, finland wasn't a "satellite state". that is only true for the warsaw pact countries (and probably yugoslavia and mongolia, maybe even north korea).

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:32 GMT	-4 points
	Got all 15 but wasn't thinking Russia either. Eventually the Eurasia gave it away since only Russia and Turkey span both.

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	davidr:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 11:06 GMT	1 point
	@Vernon G.: Not true. Three other former Soviet Republics also span the border of Europe and Asia (the first in central Asia and the second and third in the Caucasus).

	davidr:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 11:14 GMT	3 points
	@Burton dW.: No. Poland was never Soviet territory: the eastern half of Poland was previously part of the Russian Empire but that was lost during World War I, before the formation of the USSR. Finland actually ceded territory to the Soviet Union after World War II as part of a reparations deal that I'll never understand. (USSR invades Finland; USSR gets kicked out of Finland; Finland ends up ceding territory and paying huge compensation.)

	zigra:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:19 GMT	13 points
	Pretty easy if you've done the other geography quizzes a million times, but it definitely helps me with the organization. Maybe a "countries of the former Czechoslovakia" quiz? will follow soon?

	GeordieGuitarist:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:30 GMT	2 points
	Two of the three 'name all the country quizzes' i can do are Europe and Asia, so i loved this quiz a lot!

	DLJessup:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:35 GMT	-1 points
	Loved this quiz. 15/15 in 46 seconds. It does not hurt that I've been using the Baltics, the Caucasus states, and the 'stans to chunk up information for the other geography quizzes.

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	newniki:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 12:45 GMT	16 points
	@zigra: wouldn't that be a rather short quiz?

	Moose:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 13:00 GMT	-2 points
	13/15. It's early... And yes, i forgot Russia. I was trying hard to remember Tajikistan and azerbaijan, I kinda forgot about the 'Motherland'. woops

	emh:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 13:04 GMT	14 points
	Wow I sucked at this. But I did get Russia. So I've got that going for me.

	Lenard:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 13:08 GMT	4 points
	I learned these from Ghost Recon games.

	shel99:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 13:43 GMT	3 points
	14/15...forgot Moldova, which I always seem to forget in the Countries of the World quiz too. ALMOST forgot Russia but got it towards the end.

	cmkeller:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:06 GMT	11 points
	Got them all, but didn't some of them go by different names as Soviet Republics? Belarus was Byelorussia, Moldova was Moldavia, the central Asian republics were called "Kazakh SSR", "Uzbek SSR" etc rather than -stan, and Russia was technically the RSFSR.

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	Hetch:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:27 GMT	-2 points
	I wonder why everyone forgot Russia? 15/15

	Annie:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:27 GMT	-1 points
	Fun quiz. I missed Moldova, but I'm glad I gave up, because I would have never guessed it.

	magister:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:35 GMT	5 points
	Stupid Russia. How did I do that? All pumped to get 15/15, spend 1 solid minute spelling Kyrgyzstan, and then bomb out on Russia. Nyet!!!

	davidr:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 14:50 GMT	12 points
	@Chaim M.K.: Yes, they went by slightly different names when they were part of the USSR. But the quiz asks for countries that were formerly Soviet republics so the modern forms are required here.