Tichifunga nezveiyi ndima pamusoro peHondo Yemashoko, nei vaSoviet vakabuda muhondo yavo muAfghanistan?
Context:Pashure peHondo Yenyika II, zvikamu zveEastern neCentral Europe, kusanganisira East Germany uye mativi ekumabvazuva kweAustria zvakatorwa neRed Army maererano nePotsdam Conference. Hurumende dzechiKomonisiti dzakazvimirira dzakaiswa muEastern Bloc satellite states. Pashure pokuva simba renyukireya rechipiri munyika, Soviet Union yakavamba mubatanidzwa weWarsaw Pact, uye yakapinda murwisano yokutonga nyika yose, inozivikanwa seHondo Yemashoko, neUnited States neNATO. Pashure porufu rwaStalin muna 1953 uye nhambo pfupi yokutonga pamwe chete, mutungamiri mutsva Nikita Khrushchev akashora Stalin ndokutanga mutemo we de-Stalinization, achisunungura vasungwa vakawanda vezvematongerwe enyika kubva mumisasa yebasa yeGulag. Kurerutsa kwakapararira kwemitemo yokudzvinyirira kwakazozivikanwa gare gare seKhrushchev Thaw. Panguva imwe cheteyo, makakatanwa eHondo Yemashoko akasvika pakakwirira apo vakwikwidzi vaviri vacho vakarwisana pamusoro pokuiswa kwamaroketi eJupiter eUnited States muTurkey uye maroketi eSoviet muCuba.  Muna 1957, Soviet Union yakatumira nyika yokutanga yokunyepedzera, Sputnik 1, nokudaro ichitanga Zera reNzvimbo. Mutengesi wemuchadenga weRussia Yuri Gagarin akava munhu wokutanga kutenderera Pasi, ari mungarava yevhu yeVostok 1 musi wa 12 April 1961. Pashure pokudzingwa kwaKhrushchev muna 1964, imwe nhambo yokutonga pamwe chete yakatevera, kusvikira Leonid Brezhnev ava mutungamiriri. Makore okuma1970 uye kutanga kwema1980 akazozivikanwa seNguva Yokusaita Basa. Shanduko yaKosygin ya1965 yakanangidzirwa pakuparadzaniswa kwehupfumi hweSoviet. Muna 1979, pashure pechinjo yakatungamirirwa nemakomonisiti muAfghanistan, mauto eSoviet akapinda munyika, pakupedzisira achitanga Hondo yeSoviet neAfghan. Muna May 1988, maSoviet akatanga kubva muAfghanistan, nemhaka yokushorwa nenyika dzakawanda, hondo yevagari vemo yaipesana neSoviet, uye kushaya rutsigiro rwevagari veSoviet.  Kubva muna 1985 zvichienda mberi, mutungamiri wokupedzisira weSoviet Mikhail Gorbachev, uyo akatsvaka kuita shanduko dzakasununguka mugadziriro yeSoviet, akaunza mitemo ye glasnost (kuzaruka) uye perestroika (kudzokorora) mukuedza kugumisa nguva yekuderera kwezvemari uye kuita kuti hurumende ive nehurumende. Zvisinei, ikoku kwakatungamirira kukuvapo kwenzanga dzakasimba uye dzakaparadzanisa munyika yose. Pamberi pa1991, upfumi hweSoviet hwakanga huri hwechipiri pakukura munyika, asi mukati mamakore aro okupedzisira, hwakapinda munhamo.  Pakazosvika 1991, kusagadzikana mune zveupfumi uye zvematongerwe enyika kwakatanga kuwedzera sezvo nyika dzeBaltic dzakasarudza kuzvitsaura kubva kuSoviet Union. Musi waMarch 17, referendamu yakaitwa, umo ruzhinji rwevagari vakapinda rwakavhotera kushandurwa kweSoviet Union kuva mubatanidzwa mutsva. Muna June 1991, Boris Yeltsin akava purezidhendi wokutanga akasarudzwa zvakananga munhau yeRussia paakasarudzwa kuva purezidhendi weRussian SFSR. Muna August 1991, kuedza kupidigura hurumende kwaiitwa nenhengo dzehurumende yaGorbachev, kwakanangana naGorbachev uye kwakanangana nokuchengetedza Soviet Union, panzvimbo pezvo kwakatungamirira kumugumo weCommunist Party yeSoviet Union. Pana December 25, 1991, pashure pokuparara kweSoviet Union, pamwe chete neRussia yomuzuva ranhasi, dzimwe nyika gumi nenhanhatu dzapashure peSoviet dzakabuda.
MaSoviet akabva muHondo yeSoviet-Afghan yakatanga muna Chivabvu 1988 nekuda kwekushorwa kwenyika dzese, kurwira kwevarwi veSoviet, uye kushaya rutsigiro rwevagari veSoviet.