Question

The Soviets' exit from Afghanistan led to a...

sweeping victory for democracy

series of unstable governments

Soviet-style dictatorship

U.S.-backed Muslim theocracy

Answer 1

...a series of unstable governments.

It's one of the sad chapters on Afghanistan that after the Soviets left, the US didn't stick around to help ensure a stable government rose up afterward. Instead, Afghanistan was largely left to figure things out on its own, collapsed into civil war as a number of factions made a bid for power (and were made proxies, in turn, by other countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran), and eventually saw everything fall into the hands of a theocracy controlled by the Taliban.

Answer 2

^ that is 100% correct. ^_^