Brezhnev Doctrine

Proper noun

Meaning

A policy which stated that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene in places where capitalism threatened communism.

(by extension) Any similar policy of ideologically motivated intervention in the affairs of other states. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Examples

Brezhnev Doctrine in Practice The vague, broad nature of the Brezhnev Doctrine allowed application to any international situation the USSR saw fit. Source: Internet

On July 6, 1989, in a speech to the Council of Europe, Gorbachev abandoned “not only the Brezhnev doctrine, stipulating the right of Soviet intervention in Eastern Europe, but the satellite orbit itself, by renouncing ‘spheres of influence.’ Source: Internet

Moscow's abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine allowed the rise of popular upheavals in Eastern Europe throughout 1989, in which Communism was overthrown. Source: Internet

The sovereignty of nations that rose up against the Brezhnev doctrine. Source: Internet

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