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...Enunciated first by Pravda, the official party newspaper, and later by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in a speech at the United Nations, the Soviet Union claims the right to intervene in any Socialist country where the practice and purity of Soviet-style Communism is threatened. Popularly called "the Brezhnev Doctrine," after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the new Soviet policy poses a threat to the sovereignty of any Communist country. No matter what doubletalk Moscow ideologues may use to disguise it, the new policy is nothing less than a doctrine of Russian imperialism-and other Communists recognize...
...sotsialisticheskoe sodruzhestvo, which, translated into English, has a reassuring and almost beneficent ring: Socialist Commonwealth. Since the invasion of Czechoslovakia, however, the term has acquired a new and ominous meaning. It has come to reflect a departure in Soviet policy that some people suggest should be called the Brezhnev Doctrine, after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, whose brutal and brusque attitude toward the Czechoslovak leaders has made him a symbol of the Soviet Union's belligerent mood...
When Dubček demurred that such a large Soviet garrison would leave little barracks space for the Czechoslovak army, Brezhnev replied: "We could use about 250,000 of your troops along the Chinese frontier." When Dubček tried to explain that his side had fulfilled the conditions of the first Moscow accord, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny ordered him to shut up. The Russians told the Czechoslovaks not to hope that outrage among the free world's Communist parties would deter the Kremlin from cracking down harder on Czechoslovakia. In the words of one Russian, "For the next...
...began a passionate telegram of protest that, reported the London Sunday Times in a copyrighted story last week, had been sent by Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin on Aug. 22, the day after Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia. If Evtushenko was indeed the author, it was a bold and surprising act. Once the daring young man of Russia's liberals, in recent years the poet has become a kind of safe Establishment rebel. He wielded a careful pen, which earned him gaudy trips around the world, reading his works...
Further evidence came to light last week from Prague sources to indicate that Brezhnev had been the real heavy during the Moscow meetings. He would listen only to President Ludvik Svoboda, a hero of the Czechoslovak brigade that fought against the Nazis. Impatiently and arrogantly, he cut off the others in midsentence. Moreover, claimed the sources, as soon as word reached Moscow that President Johnson had left Washington's crisis atmosphere for his Texas ranch, Brezhnev and the other Russians felt assured that there would be no U.S. move to counter their invasion. Accordingly, they hardened their attitude toward...