B1420thand21st

**Brezhnev Doctrine** The Brezhnev doctrine was a soviet foreign policy created after the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Brezhnev doctrine stated that “the Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need” (McKay et al 1006). The doctrine would terminate the Prague spring and earlier soviet interventions. The policy only allowed limited independence of communist parties and no country was allowed to leave the Warsaw pact. The Brezhnev doctrine limited and extended liberties. Because of the doctrine many treaties were signed between the Soviet Union and satellite states to have interstate cooperation. The doctrine was so broad that the soviets used it to justify military intervention in the non-Warsaw pact.