Laos clearly recognized the Soviet position as the leading force in the Socialist Bloc.

The Soviet Union also contributed to infrastructure projects, such as the building of roads, airports, bridges, broadcasting facilities and hospitals.

The state-to-state assistance also included large deliveries of military materials, such as MiG fighter jets.

Moreover, as the Soviets shifted their focus of their increasingly limited diplomatic leverage in the region towards trying to consolidate cooperation of the other permanent members of the United Nations for the sake of finding a settlement to the Cambodian Civil War, relations with Laos were deprioritzed even further.

[3] As the Soviet Union fell apart, Laos began reorienting itself towards developing better relations with its South-East Asian neighbours.