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Brezhnev Doctrine

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Named after Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.

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Brezhnev Doctrine

  1. A policy which stated that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene in places where capitalism threatened communism.
  2. (by extension) Any similar policy of ideologically motivated intervention in the affairs of other states. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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