Brezhnev Doctrine

In 1968, we had the Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty.

But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking, at least not to date.

But now there was no Brezhnev doctrine."

But the interventionist Brezhnev doctrine, in any case not conceived as an instrument of liberalisation, has been abandoned.

A long article in Pravda justifying the use of force to keep a country within the bloc became known as the Brezhnev doctrine.

That's what marked the demise of the Brezhnev doctrine that had legitimized Soviet intervention since 1968."

Brezhnev reacted by announcing and enforcing what became known as the Brezhnev doctrine:

The "Frank Sinatra" doctrine was his reversal of the Brezhnev doctrine.

It was there that the Brezhnev doctrine, justifying military intervention to defend kindred "revolutions," first went into remission.

'New thinking' and the Brezhnev doctrine are in fundamental conflict," Mr. Baker said.

"We call today upon General Secretary Gorbachev to renounced the Brezhnev doctrine - beyond any shadow of a doubt."

"It's the political version of the Brezhnev doctrine: What's mine is mine and what's yours we'll talk about."

Many Europeans were prepared to treat the far-off Soviet operation as a defensive action in line with the Brezhnev doctrine.

"Those in the East should be free of the fear that armed Soviet intervention, justified by the Brezhnev doctrine, would be used again to deny them choice."

The era of Yalta, of the Brezhnev Doctrine and of the Berlin Wall has ended.

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in Moscow and introduced a new foreign policy, which led to the termination of the Brezhnev doctrine.

On 20 August 1968, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was condemned by Albania, as was the Brezhnev doctrine.

Specifically, he called on Moscow to formally renounce the Brezhnev doctrine, under which the Soviets have sought to justify armed intervention in other Communist countries.

The new Soviet model regime countermanded the "Brezhnev doctrine" of forcible intervention against "anti-Socialist" upheavals in the Eastern bloc.

Asked about the Soviet reaction, Mr. Somogyi said, "It is of paramount importance that we have accepted that the Brezhnev doctrine is over."

He added that the party was forced to crack down on Solidarity in 1981 "because the Brezhnev doctrine was hanging like an axe over our party and its leaders."

This liberalization alarmed the Soviet Union and on 21 August 1968, the Soviets invoked the Brezhnev Doctrine and invaded Czechoslovakia.

What finally shook the edifice apart were not so much domestic events as Gorbachev's abandonment of the Brezhnev doctrine of interference in the affairs of the Soviet satellites.

"The unidentified associate is basically representing the Brezhnev doctrine when he speaks of the possibly unfavorable outcome of the elections from the Communist Party's point of view," they said.

Keep saying we want Mr. Gorbachev's rebuilding to succeed as we interpret that success as renunciation of the Brezhnev doctrine preventing any Communist state from choosing freedom.