Soviet foreign policy had also gone awry during Brezhnev's last years, and by June 1982, just before his death, Ronald Reagan classified the Soviet Union as an "Evil Empire".
苏联外交政策（英语：Foreign relations of the Soviet Union）也在勃列日涅夫最后几年里出了差池，到1982年6月他出事前夕，罗纳德·里根将苏联归类为“邪恶帝国”。