Leonid Brezhnev
- Next Soviet Leader
- Led Soviet Union from 1964-1982
- Many think this is a period of deterioration for the USSR due to party "apparatchiks" left over from the Stalin regime wanted to return to the old status quo
- Brought in the Brezhnev doctrine
- "it was the right and duty if the fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"
- He was going to defend other socialist countries: East Germany, poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, (Warsaw Pact Countries)
- If any of these countries tried to go democratic, it was the soviet right/duty to stop it
- would stop it through militaristic means
- He makes this while intervening in Czechoslovakia
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).