Brezhnev Doctrine Quotes

When forces hostile to socialism seek to reverse the development of any socialist country whatsoever ..., this becomes the concern of all socialist country.

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

The scales dropped from his eyes only after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Carter felt betrayed by Brezhnev, but Brezhnev never betrayed him; Carter was just too naïve and too stubborn to listen

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.