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
It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"
Summary: Was the leader of the Soviet union for 18 years and made a policy to help other communist countries.