The Importance of Gorbacho's Become Head of the Russian State

The soviet state gambled on the invasion in afghanistan, and were quite publicly selling it as being thisthissis this great triumph a would essentially have big ramificationson t russian power. But that isnt of course, not what came to pass. And effectively, it showed the fundamental military weakness of the sooviet state at a crucial moment when many of the other nations behind the iron curtain were looking carefully about their own futures.