“In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.”
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
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
•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
Summary
Brezhnev was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982. The Brezhnev doctrine was what he was famous for. The doctrine he made was at the time when he was intervening in Czechoslovakia (1968) and used he Warsaw Pact's army.