On Christmas in 1979 the [[geriatrics|geriatric]] leadership of the [[Soviet Union]] launched an invasion of [[Afghanistan]]. Although they succeeded in occupying the country, this act of aggression was to embroil them in a war of resistance that bled their armed forces white and sparked the process that led to the collapse of the USSR itself and of world Communism.
==See also:==
*[[The Sixties]]
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