Determine the significance of the Afghan war in the history of the USSR and in the development of international relations.

For the development of international relations on the part of the Soviet Union, the experience of the Afghan war played an extremely negative role, because after a long policy of detente, the USSR thus turned the entire world community against itself and for a long time was considered an aggressor state. As for domestic policy, the government thus turned the people against itself, because a lot of young guys died there, and the costs of a war that no one needed was not proportionate to the potential that it provided for the USSR.