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The significance of it was so that they both could see who was better.The Soviet Union won the race.
The Soviet Union supported the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) under Ho Chi Minh.
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The phrase is simply used to show that just as the American's suffered devastating losses in Vietnam, the Soviet Union had crushing losses in Afghanistan.
The Soviet Union, other ComBloc countries (via the Soviet Union), China, and Cambodia.
The purposes of the satellite nations was to provide natural resources and services to the Soviet Union. The satellite nations were nations that were under the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union (USSR) supplied North Vietnam, and the US fought for South Vietnam.
Both the Soviet Union and China supplied armaments to North Vietnam.
the U.S. did not want the Soviet Union and China to enter the war.
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The former Soviet Union expended funds on military hardware with or without Vietnam. The ONLY difference was; the Vietnam ordnance was USED (consumed); after the Vietnam War, the Soviet ordnance (that was never used) had to be destroyed...as they were in the US.
Russia, then called the Soviet Union, supplied America's enemy with weapons. The Soviet Union (Russia) was a cold war enemy. Russia (Soviet Union) and America never officially fought each other. Russia (Soviet Union) and America were allies only during WWII.