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POLITICS  Politics Quiz
In the list below choose whether the people are alive or dead
1.Václav HavelPolitician and playwright, leader of the "Velvet Revolution" that overthrew Communism in Czechoslovakia, as a dissident he was jailed many times by the Communist government but later became the popular president of the Czech Republic
2.Lech WalesaChief of the Solidarity trade union in Communist Poland, former post-Communist president of Poland, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
3.Ross PerotFounder of computer company EDS, ran for US president twice as an independent
4.Mikhail GorbachevLast leader of the Soviet Union, inititated policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika" that eventually led to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union
5.Michael DukakisFormer Governor of Massachusetts, US presidential candidate in 1988
6.Boris YeltsinFormer president of Russia, he hammered the last nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union
7.Jacqueline KennedyWidow of US president John F. Kennedy who later married shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, known for her style
8.Golda MeirFormer prime minister of Israel
9.John McCainUS senator from Arizona, former presidential candidate, POW for five years during the Vietnam war
10.Saddam HusseinFormer leader of Iraq who started two wars by invading Iran and invading Kuwait, he was overthrown in 2003 and later convicted of crimes against humanity for massacring Iraqi civilians Posted in memory of Farzad Bazoft
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