Prompt 5 of 7
Name a country that was an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War
38 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Grenada— Its Soviet-Cuban tilt triggered the 1983 US invasion.
85 ptsDeep Cut13 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Algeria
- Benin
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Indonesia— Sukarno's navy ran on Soviet ships until 1965 flipped the country.
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Republic of the Congo
- Somalia— Flipped to the American side during the 1977 Ogaden war.
- South Yemen
- Sudan— Soviet-armed under Nimeiry until a 1971 coup attempt soured everything.
60 ptsRare13 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Albania— Moscow's ally until it defected to China's side in 1961.
- Angola
- Cambodia
- Egypt— Sadat expelled thousands of Soviet advisers in 1972.
- Ethiopia
- India— New Delhi signed a friendship treaty with Moscow in 1971.
- Iraq
- Laos
- Libya
- Mongolia
- Nicaragua
- Syria
- Yugoslavia— Tito was Moscow's closest ally until the 1948 break.
30 ptsSchooler8 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Afghanistan
- Bulgaria
- China— China counts for its alliance before the Sino-Soviet split.
- Czechoslovakia
- Hungary
- North Korea
- Romania
- Vietnam
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Cuba
- East Germany
- Poland