It made life very difficult for the soviet military, consumed enormous resources, just enormous resources. And not any less importantly i think change the way the soviet citizens saw their government. The government was forced to lie about a lot of the things he was doing. When did soviet soldier started coming home in coffins it was not widely publicized. They tried to keep it quiet. People new is happening. It did a lot to undermine the authority of the government itself among large swaths of the population. Quite important that also made the Central Asian republics of the soviet union very restive and very turbulent in the way they hadnt been before. 1979 is also the year when the Muslim Population of the Old Soviet Union really began to overtake the european population of the Old Soviet Union, a very interesting moment in soviet history. So certainly higher oil prices, the arms race with the united states, a lot of these other things i think conspired to make life very hard for the soviet regime but i think that the war in afghanistan was a major, major factor. Host so lets go to the other room of the soviet empire. In 1979 you had this really amazing spectacle of a polish pope, and not only was he the first