Possible Clues:

• Reds
• Khrushchev and Gorbachev
• Those affected by the 1980s policies glasnost and perestroika
• Launchers of Sputnik
• Roman poet briefly held by groups of old Reds
• Russians, once
• Left people in Europe during a war with America
• Space racers
• Cold War faction
• True struggle disheartened this old Union's members