Brezhnev Doctrine

American  

noun

1. the doctrine expounded by Leonid Brezhnev in November 1968 affirming the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in the affairs of Communist countries to strengthen Communism.

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Example Sentences

He scrapped the “Brezhnev doctrine” of Soviet support for socialist countries.

From Washington Post

Until he arrived, the Soviet Union had embraced what the West called the Brezhnev doctrine, under which the Kremlin arrogated to itself the right to interfere in the affairs of faltering Communist regimes of the Warsaw Pact.

From New York Times

“I think the Brezhnev doctrine is dead,” he said.

From New York Times

And if the court ever does revisit the case, it assuredly will not be because that decision is an intolerable imposition on the “Brezhnev doctrine,” an illegitimate exercise of constitutional interpretation, or “a threat to American Democracy.”

From Washington Post

Paraphrasing former Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev as having said that “once a country has turned communist, it can never be allowed to go back,” he accused the Supreme Court of having “committed itself” to a “constitutional Brezhnev doctrine” in its adherence to precedent.

From Washington Post