Leonid Brezhnev Era
- Led the Soviet Unions from 1964-1982
- Many think this is a period of deterioration for the USSR government due to old customs being brought in from officials from the Stalin era
- Brezhnev makes a doctrine to combat this, it states: "It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened."
- Brezhnev makes this doctrine while intervening in Czechoslovakia, a way of justifying his actions
- Many think this is a period of deterioration for the USSR government due to old customs being brought in from officials from the Stalin era
- Brezhnev makes a doctrine to combat this, it states: "It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened."
- Brezhnev makes this doctrine while intervening in Czechoslovakia, a way of justifying his actions
Summary
_Breszhnev was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982. He was made famous by the Brezhnev doctrine. He made this doctrine while intervening in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and used the Warsaw Pact's army (not the Soviet Army).