Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tautokohia e te Soviet Union nga Vietnamese i roto i to ratou
Ko te whakaekenga o Cambodia i te tau 1978, he whakaekenga i whakaarohia e te Ao Tuatahi, ko te nuinga o te United States, me te People's Republic of China kei raro i te whakahau tika a te Soviet Union. Ko te USSR hoki te kaitautoko nui rawa atu o te kawanatanga hou i Cambodia, te People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK). I roto i te hui 1979 Jimmy Carter amuamu ki Brezhnev e pā ana ki te aroaro o nga hoia Vietnamese i roto i Cambodia, ki nei Brezhnev whakahoki e ko nga tangata o te PRK i hari e pā ana ki te whakakahoretanga o te Khmer Rouge-arahina kāwanatanga; i roto i tenei, rite kōrero a Archie Brown, he tika ia.