Didn’t help them in Afghanistan.
Oh... C’mon, Gator. They did pretty fine in A-stan. Probably much better than current occupation force:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSip2c3oC6U
If they were defeated it was not a military but political defeat, pretty much the same as it was for US forces in Nam.
And I find it pretty ironic that a communist regime in Afghanistan outlived communism in Russia by some 3 years. It only succumbed to Taliban in 1993 about time post-Soviet Russia has first went bankrupt and couldn’t support any secular element there anymore.