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Brezhnev Doctrine

Russia · Government / Communist Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1968Date range
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Chronological records

1968

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev3 August 1968

Bratislava · Government / Communist Party Government

The policy later called the Brezhnev Doctrine asserts a Soviet right to defend Communist rule within the Eastern Bloc.

Names involved

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

Provenance

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