Ganin wannan sakin layi game da Cold War, me ya sa Soviets janye daga yaki a Afghanistan?
Context:Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II, sassan Gabashin Turai da Tsakiyar Turai, gami da Gabashin Jamus da gabashin Austria sun mamaye Red Army bisa ga taron Potsdam. An kafa gwamnatocin kwaminisanci masu dogaro a cikin jihohin tauraron dan adam na Gabas. Bayan ya zama na biyu a duniya nukiliya iko, Tarayyar Soviet kafa Warsaw Yarjejeniyar kawance, da kuma shiga a cikin wani gwagwarmaya domin duniya mamayar, da aka sani da Cold War, da kishiya Amurka da NATO. Bayan mutuwar Stalin a 1953 da kuma ɗan gajeren lokaci na mulkin gama gari, sabon shugaban Nikita Khrushchev ya yi tir da Stalin kuma ya ƙaddamar da manufar de-Stalinization, yana sakin fursunonin siyasa da yawa daga sansanonin aikin Gulag. Gabaɗaya bautar da manufofin zalunci ya zama sananne daga baya a matsayin Khrushchev Thaw. A lokaci guda, tashin hankali na Cold War ya kai kololuwar lokacin da abokan hamayyar biyu suka yi karo da juna game da girke-girke na Amurka Jupiter a Turkiyya da kuma makamai masu linzami na Soviet a Cuba.  A shekara ta 1957, Tarayyar Soviet ta harba tauraron dan adam na farko a duniya, Sputnik 1, ta haka ne aka soma Zamanin Sararin Samaniya. Jirgin saman Rasha Yuri Gagarin ya zama mutum na farko da ya zagaya duniya, a cikin jirgin Vostok 1 wanda ke da jirgin sama a ranar 12 ga Afrilu 1961. Bayan hambarar da Khrushchev a cikin 1964, wani lokacin mulkin gama gari ya biyo baya, har sai Leonid Brezhnev ya zama jagora. Zamanin 1970s da farkon 1980s daga baya aka sanya shi a matsayin Zamanin Ragewa. Gyaran Kosygin na 1965 ya yi niyyar rage rarraba tattalin arzikin Soviet. A shekarar 1979, bayan juyin juya halin kwaminisanci a Afghanistan, sojojin Soviet sun mamaye kasar, a karshe sun fara yakin Soviet-Afghan. A watan Mayu na 1988, Soviets sun fara janyewa daga Afghanistan, saboda adawa da kasa da kasa, ci gaba da yakin basasa na Soviet, da kuma rashin goyon baya daga 'yan kasar Soviet.  Daga 1985 zuwa gaba, shugaban Soviet na karshe Mikhail Gorbachev, wanda ya nemi aiwatar da gyare-gyare na sassaucin ra'ayi a cikin tsarin Soviet, ya gabatar da manufofin glasnost (buɗewa) da perestroika (sake tsarawa) a ƙoƙarin kawo ƙarshen lokacin koma bayan tattalin arziki da dimokiradiyya ga gwamnati. Wannan, duk da haka, ya haifar da hauhawar ƙungiyoyin kishin ƙasa da masu neman rabuwa a duk faɗin ƙasar. Kafin 1991, tattalin arzikin Soviet shi ne na biyu mafi girma a duniya, amma a cikin shekarunsa na ƙarshe, ya shiga cikin rikici.  A shekara ta 1991, hargitsi na tattalin arziki da na siyasa ya soma ƙaruwa sa'ad da ƙasashen Baltic suka zaɓi su ware kansu daga Tarayyar Soviet. A ranar 17 ga Maris, an gudanar da kuri'ar raba gardama, inda yawancin 'yan ƙasa da suka halarci zaben suka goyi bayan sauya Tarayyar Soviet zuwa sabuwar tarayya. A watan Yunin 1991, Boris Yeltsin ya zama shugaban farko da aka zaba kai tsaye a tarihin Rasha lokacin da aka zabe shi shugaban Rasha SFSR. A watan Agusta 1991, yunkurin juyin mulki da membobin gwamnatin Gorbachev suka yi, wanda aka yi wa Gorbachev da nufin adana Tarayyar Soviet, ya haifar da ƙarshen Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Tarayyar Soviet. A ranar 25 ga Disamba, 1991, bayan rushewar Tarayyar Soviet, tare da Rasha ta zamani, wasu jihohi goma sha huɗu na Soviet sun fito.
Soviets sun janye daga Yakin Soviet-Afghanistan wanda ya fara a watan Mayu 1988 saboda adawa da kasa da kasa, ci gaba da yakin basasa na Soviet, da kuma rashin goyon baya daga 'yan kasar Soviet.