Brezhnev Doctrine
The
Brezhnev Doctrine was a
Soviet policy doctrine, introduced by
Leonid Brezhnev, which stated:
- "When forces that are hostile to socialism and try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries."
This effectively meant that no country was allowed to leave the
Warsaw pact, and the doctrine was used to justify the invasions of
Czechoslovakia in
1968 as well as the non-Warsaw pact nation of
Afghanistan in
1979.
