nov 12, 1968 - Brezhnev Doctrine

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Foreign policy put into place by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1968 that supports the Soviet Union being able to intervene in countries where socialist rule was being threaten. The policy was created as a response to the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia. The doctrine goes more in depth about the intervention of the Soviet Union-- a threat against any socialist rule under the Soviet bloc (majority of Eastern Europe) was a threat to everyone in the bloc, justifying a required intervention.
The significance of the Brezhnev Doctrine was that it eliminated the freedom of the states within the Soviet bloc-- their private conflicts would be resound to all in the bloc and pose everyone against the threat rather than the single state itself. This would further unify the entirety of the bloc as well as the prevelance of communism. Also, the doctrine would later be used to justify the Soviet's invasion in Afghanistan in 1979.

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