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Updated February 25, 2017. The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy outlined in 1968 which called for the use of Warsaw Pact (but Russian-dominated) troops to intervene in any Eastern Bloc nation which was seen to compromise communist rule and Soviet domination.
***cartoon attached inside!*** A. The Soviet Union, led by Brezhnev, investigates the Prague Spring reforms. B. Soviet leader Brezhnev douses the spirit of freedom born during the Czech Prague Spring. C. The Soviet Union hides from neighboring countries the flame of political freedom found in Czechoslovakia.