The Leonid Brezhnev Era
-Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union from 1964-1982
-Many think this is a period of deterioration for USSR due to party “apparatchiks” left over from the Stalin regime.
-Many people wanted to return to the old status quo.
-Made famous the Brezhnev doctrine:
“It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened”
-He makes this while intervening in Czechoslovakia in 1968
-Many think this is a period of deterioration for USSR due to party “apparatchiks” left over from the Stalin regime.
-Many people wanted to return to the old status quo.
-Made famous the Brezhnev doctrine:
“It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened”
-He makes this while intervening in Czechoslovakia in 1968
Leonid Brezhnev
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
-Leonid Brezhnev |
|