 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1979 hurumende yezvemagariro evanhu yakatora simba muAfghanistan asi yakamanikidzwa zvikuru uye yakakumbira betsero yechiuto kubva kuMoscow. Mauto eSoviet akapindira kuti atsigire vaSoshalist, asi akazviwana amene ari mumakakatanwa makuru. Utungamiriri hwaRonald Reagan muUnited States hwakanga husingafariri Soviet zvikuru, uye hwakaita kuti vavakidzani vayo vatsigire hondo yemagandanga mukurwisana neSoviet muAfghanistan. Chinangwa chacho chakanga chiri chokugadzira chimwe chinhu chakafanana neHondo yeVietnam icho chaizopedza masimba eSoviet nomudzimu. Apo Mikhail Gorbachev akava mutungamiriri weSoviet Union muna 1985, akatsvaka kugadzirisazve Soviet Union kuti ifanane nomuenzaniso weScandinavia woruzhinji rwokuMadokero uye nokudaro kuumba upfumi hwebazi roga roga. Akabvisa mauto eSoviet kubva kuAfghanistan ndokutanga nzira yokusaita chiito muukama hweUSSR nehama dzayo dzokuEastern Europe. Ikoku kwakagamuchirwa zvakanaka neUnited States, asi kwakatungamirira kukuparadzana kwamasatelliti eEastern Europe muna 1989, uye kuputsika kwokupedzisira nokuparara kweUSSR muna 1991. Russia itsva, pasi paBoris Yeltsin, yakanga isati ichiri yechiKomonisiti. 