The Leonid Brezhnev Era
Leonid Brezhnev:
Led 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 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
Led 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 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