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What city survived an 872-day siege?
Answer: Leningrad
Why: Leningrad got its old name, Saint Petersburg, back in 1991 after a referendum that June.
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What does glasnost mean?
Answer: openness
Why: Its companion policy, perestroika, is the one that means restructuring.
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What was the first vehicle to drive on the Moon?
Answer: Lunokhod 1
Why: NASA's Lunar Roving Vehicle only arrived with Apollo 15 in July 1971, about eight months after Lunokhod 1 landed.
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What kind of animal was the first to orbit Earth?
Answer: dog
Why: Laika died from overheating within hours of launch, a fact only made public in 2002.
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Which country did the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact secretly split?
Answer: Poland
Why: Germany invaded from the west on 1 September 1939, and the Red Army entered eastern Poland on 17 September.
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Which republic first declared independence from the USSR?
Answer: Lithuania
Why: Estonia declared sovereignty in November 1988, but Lithuania was the first to declare full independence, in March 1990.