At Christmas 1979 the 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. | At Christmas 1979 the 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. |