Kammala wannan jumla: Tarayyar Soviet ta goyi bayan 'yan Vietnam a cikin
1978 mamayewar Kambodiya, mamayewar da Duniya ta Farko, musamman Amurka, da Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Sin suka yi la'akari da kasancewa ƙarƙashin umarnin kai tsaye na Tarayyar Soviet. Har ila yau, Tarayyar Soviet ta zama babban mai tallafawa sabuwar jihar marigayi a Kambodiya, Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Kampuchea (PRK). A cikin taron kolin 1979 Jimmy Carter ya yi gunaguni ga Brezhnev game da kasancewar sojojin Vietnam a Kambodiya, wanda Brezhnev ya amsa cewa 'yan ƙasa na PRK sun yi farin ciki game da hambarar da gwamnatin Khmer Rouge; a cikin wannan, kamar yadda masanin tarihi Archie Brown ya lura, ya yi daidai.