这番话令人哭笑不得；1968年8月，勃列日涅夫用完全一样的说辞为红军干预捷克斯洛伐克、帮助四面楚歌的共产主义强硬派镇压布拉格之春改革运动开脱。
These words prompt a sad smile; Leonid Brezhnev used precisely the same phrase in August 1968 to justify the Red Army’s intervention in Czechoslovakia to help beleaguered Communist hardliners there crush the Prague Spring reform movement.