Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tarayyar Soviet ta goyi bayan Vietnamese a cikin mamayewar 1978 na Cambodia
, wani mamayewa da Duniya ta Farko ta yi la'akari, musamman Amurka, da Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Sin da ke 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.