Question by Itty: What provoked the proclamation of the Brezhnev Doctrine?
I know what the Brezhnev Doctrine is, but I am a bit fuzzy on the specific events that triggered Brezhnev’s issuance of the doctrine.
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Answer by Edward
Although in its immediate sense a riposte to the international condemnation of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, the “Brezhnev Doctrine” was the culmination of the long evolution of a conception of sovereignty in Soviet ideology. At its core was the restatement of a long-standing insistence on the right of the USSR to intervene in a satellite’s internal political developments should there be any reason to fear for the future of communist rule in that state.
Sovereignty continued to be interpreted in two regards: first, as the right to demand that the non communist world, including organizations such as the United Nations, respect Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, and second, as permitting the USSR’s satellites to determine domestic policy only within the narrow bounds of orthodox Marxism-Leninism. Any breach of those parameters would justify military intervention by members of the Warsaw Pact and the removal even of leaders who had come to power in the ways that the Soviet political model would consider legitimate.
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