Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Soviet Union yakatsigira vaVietnamese mukupinda kwavo muCambodia muna 1978
, kupindirwa kunofungidzirwa neNyika Yokutanga, zvikurukuru United States, uye People's Republic of China kuva pasi pokutonga kwakananga kweSoviet Union. USSR yakavawo mutsigiri mukurusa wenyika itsva yechidhori muCambodia, People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK). Mumusangano wa1979 Jimmy Carter akanyunyuta kuna Brezhnev pamusoro pekuvapo kwemauto eVietnamese muCambodia, uko Brezhnev akapindura kuti vagari vePRK vaifara nekuparadzwa kwehurumende inotungamirwa neKhmer Rouge; mune izvi, sezvakataurwa nemunyori wenhoroondo Archie Brown, aive akarurama.