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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.
Brezhnev Doctrine. 1968â89 Justification for intervention by Warsaw Pact countries in the affairs of member states. Promulgated by Soviet Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev (1906â82) to explain why five countries under Soviet control invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 to quash the Prague Spring.