# The Feud: In Sovet Russia, Feud Answers You! by WormTheRed (game over)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 25, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248 "2009-07-25T21:19:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/61 "2009-07-27T14:02:46Z")

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1. Gorbachev
2. Ukraine
3. St Petersburg
4. Chicken Kiev
5. Levi jeans
6. Odessa
7. Yakov Smirnoff
8. Vodka
9. Back in the USSR
10. USA

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/62 "2009-07-27T14:08:10Z")

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1. Stalin
2. Ukraine
3. St. Petersburg
4. Chicken Kiev
5. blue jeans
6. Red Square
7. Yakav Smirnov
8. nyet
9. Back in the USSR
10. USA

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/63 "2009-07-27T14:53:41Z")

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**Munch** is #48.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/64 "2009-07-27T15:08:16Z")

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Damn, looks like Khrushchev is really going to do me in.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/65 "2009-07-27T17:13:11Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> Damn, looks like Khrushchev is really going to do me in.

In other words, he [will bury you](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you)? 😉

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**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/66 "2009-07-27T17:25:48Z")

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1. Stalin
2. Estonia
3. Leningrad/St. Petersburg
4. Beef stroganoff
5. Caviar
6. Odessa
7. Mikhail Barishnikov
8. vodka
9. Leningrad - Billy Joel
10. USSR

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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/67 "2009-07-27T17:38:43Z")

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1. Gorbachev
2. Ukraine
3. Leningrad
4. Piroshki
5. Levi’s jeans
6. Red Square
7. Anna Kournikova
8. Gulag
9. Back in the USSR
10. USA

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/68 "2009-07-27T17:42:26Z")

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1. Brezhnev
2. Georgia
3. St. Petersberg
4. Pierogi
5. Toilet paper
6. Moscow
7. Ayn Rand
8. Vodka
9. Back in the USSR
10. USA

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/69 "2009-07-27T17:54:25Z")

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1. Gorbechev
2. Ukraine
3. Leningrad
4. Vodka
5. Toilet Paper
6. Red Square
7. Yakov Smirnof
8. Comrad
9. Back in the USSR
10. USA

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1. / St. Petersburg
2. / St. Basil’s Cathedral

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**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/70 "2009-07-27T17:56:51Z")

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St. Petersburg will kill me. I was going to put that as my answer, but figured everyone would think of Stalingrad with the WWII question being there (yes, I know Leningrad was besieged as well).

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/71 "2009-07-27T18:10:01Z")

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> [@Snickers](#):
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> 1. Leningrad - Billy Joel

You just _had_ to be different, didn’t you? 😛

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/72 "2009-07-27T18:53:49Z")

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Little Nemo:

> [@](#):
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> We’re wandering off-topic, but I always figured that defeating Germany was the point of World War II. Japan, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Thailand, and Finland had no chance of winning on their own. The industrial manufacturing ratio of the United States and Japan was 7:1. Defeating Japan was something the United States did in its spare time.

If Japan had succeeded on their front, they would have controlled all the resources of China, Korea and Indochina. In addition, don’t forget that the immense cost in lives a ground war in Japan itself could have kept the Allies from decisively defeating Japan (although the Normandy invasion does prove that the Allies were willing to spend lots of lives to win the war) while they built themselves into an industrial giant still in a state of belligerency. I think the Japanese were very much a force to be reckoned with on the world scene, even without the Nazis.

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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/73 "2009-07-27T18:54:09Z")

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If you do not have 9. Back in the USSR ,you are screwed.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/74 "2009-07-27T19:33:00Z")

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Y’all need to work on your Russian spelling! 😉

1. Name a Soviet political leader  
**1. Joseph Stalin 26**

2. Mikhail Gorbachev 16

3. Nikita Khrushchev 4

4. Vladimir Lenin 3

5. Leonid Brezhnev 1

6. Name a country formerly part of the USSR (besides Russia)  
**2. Ukraine 39**

7. Georgia 9

8. Estonia 1

9. Lithuania 1

10. Name a city that changed names while part of the USSR  
**3. St. Petersburg 43**

11. Stalingrad 7

12. Name a food or dish asscociated with the USSR (besides borscht)  
**4. Caviar 16**

13. Chicken Kiev 13

14. Vodka 6

15. beef stroganoff 5

16. Blini 4

17. pierogi 3

18. Piroshki 1

19. Sausage 1

20. Tomato soup, ice cold. 1

21. Name something that was highly sought after on the black market  
**5. Blue Jeans 31**

22. Cigarettes 7

23. Dollars/Foreign currency 4

24. Toilet paper 3

25. Caviar 1

26. Medicine 1

27. Rock/pop albums 1

28. VCRs 1

29. Vodka 1

30. Name an touristy location that was formerly in the USSR  
**6. Red Square 15**

31. The Kremlin 10

32. Lenin’s Tomb 8

33. Moscow 4

34. Odessa 2

35. St. Basil’s Cathedral 2

36. St. Petersburg 2

37. The Hermitage 2

38. Black Sea 1

39. Kiev 1

40. Sevastopol 1

41. Star City 1

42. The Winter Palace 1

43. Name a famous person from the USSR (NOT a politician)  
**7. Mikhail Baryshnikov 20**

44. Yakov Smirnoff 10

45. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 6

46. Yuri Gagarin 6

47. Olga Korbut 3

48. Anna Kournikova 2

49. Boris Spasky 1

50. Garry Kasparov 1

51. Yuri Glazkov 1

52. Name a Russian word that’s used in many other languages  
**8. Vodka 28**

53. Nyet 8

54. Gulag 4

55. Babushka 2

56. Czar 2

57. Comrade 1

58. Kiosk 1

59. Mir 1

60. Sputnik 1

61. Steppe 1

62. Tetris 1

63. Name a pop song about the USSR  
**9. Back in the USSR 47**

64. Leningrad, by Billy Joel 2

65. Russians, by Sting 1

66. Who had a bigger impact on winning WW2 (aka Great Patriotic War), the USSR or the USA?  
**10. USSR 26**

67. USA 24

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/75 "2009-07-27T19:40:22Z")

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And our winner is… **labtrash**!!! Woo-hoo! ::flings confetti:: **labtrash** got 9/10 top answers. Congrats! Perfect score was 582.00.

Thanks for playing, everyone! Good theme, **Worm**! You got ahead of **gonzomax** on this one, I see. 😉  
\*\*1. labtrash 576.00 \*\*  
2. 42fish 562.00  
3. Alka Seltzer 554.00  
4. tumbleddown 550.00  
5. NDP 544.00  
6. astorian 542.00  
6. Queen Tonya 542.00  
8. Larry Borgia 528.00  
9. swampbear 524.00  
9. cucuy 524.00  
11. Waenara 518.00  
12. Really Not All That Bright 512.00  
12. Sigmagirl 512.00  
12. Munch 512.00  
15. LateComer 506.00  
16. cmkeller 504.00  
17. Little Nemo 500.00  
18. ShibbOleth 498.00  
18. twickster 498.00  
20. dasgupta 494.00  
20. BobArrgh 494.00  
22. Ellen Cherry 492.00  
23. RickJay 486.00  
24. bibliophage 484.00  
24. Švejk 484.00  
26. Elendil’s Heir 474.00  
26. AppallingGael 474.00  
26. madmonk28 474.00  
29. critter42 458.00  
30. Kingspades 456.00  
31. Juliefoolie 452.00  
32. Beadalin 442.00  
33. Simmerdown 440.00  
34. Sternvogel 436.00  
35. Fretful Porpentine 426.00  
36. WormTheRed 420.00  
37. Hal Briston 418.00  
38. zamboniracer 416.00  
39. Hoopy Frood 408.00  
40. El\_Kabong 380.00  
41. AllWalker 368.00  
42. Biffy the Elephant Shrew 350.00  
43. notfrommensa 346.00  
44. Silophant 338.00  
45. gonzomax 322.00  
46. IvoryTowerDenizen 314.00  
47. Snickers 304.00  
48. Chronos 296.00  
49. MOIDALIZE 290.00  
50. Mahaloth 250.00

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/76 "2009-07-27T19:44:29Z")

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Holy crap… I almost made the top 10!

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/77 "2009-07-27T20:20:00Z")

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nm

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**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/78 "2009-07-27T20:26:14Z")

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2nd to last?!!!

_slams fist on table_

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/79 "2009-07-27T20:26:56Z")

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1. Stalin (26)
2. Georgia (9)
3. Stalingrad (43)
4. Caviar (16)
5. Levis (31)
6. St Petersburg (2)
7. Olga Korbut (3)
8. Nyet (8)
9. Back in the USSR (47)
10. USA (24)

Total 209 Multiplied by 2 = 418.

How come I only got 346 points.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-feud-in-sovet-russia-feud-answers-you-by-wormthered-game-over/504248/80 "2009-07-27T20:34:47Z")

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> [@Sternvogel](#):
>
> In other words, he [will bury you](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you)? 😉

And here I thought he’d be a “shoe”-in. 😃

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