The Brezhnev Doctrine and Soviet control in Czechoslovakia
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- The Brezhnev Doctrine and Soviet control in Czechoslovakia
- Brezhnev's response to Dubcek's reforms
- Brezhnev couldn't allow the reforms, any weaknesses in control could mean break up of Warsaw Pact, not Dubcek's intention
- Failed to convince Dubcek to stop the reforms
- Aug 1968 - USSR sent tanks to Prague and Dubcek was arrested
- Czechoslovakia returned to being under strict Soviet control under Gustav Husak, known as 'normalisation'
- Consequences of Brezhnev Doctrine
- From now on, USSR declared the right to invade any Eastern Bloc country that was the threatening the security of the Eastern Bloc as a whole
- USA condemned invasion but did nothing to stop it: feared war
- Western European communist parties were horrified and declared themselves independent from the Communist Party
- Yugoslavia and Romania also backed off from the Soviet Union, weakening the Soviet grip on Eastern Europe
- Importance of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Brezhnev Doctrine meant the Soviet Union reserved the right to invade any country that threatened the security of the Eastern Bloc
- Therefore, other Eastern European states, such as Poland or Hungary, were required to ridgidly stick to Soviet-style communism or risk invasion themselves
- Brezhnev Doctrine meant the Soviet Union reserved the right to invade any country that threatened the security of the Eastern Bloc
- Brezhnev's response to Dubcek's reforms
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