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| 15.10.1964: Breshnev becomes Communist Leader |
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| Taking over from Nikita Krushchev, whose removal he had helped to instigate, Leonid Breshnev focused on military matters and foreign policy during his reign. He developed the self-titled Breshnev Doctrine, which granted the Soviet Union the right to military intervention if the common interests of the "Socialist brother states" were threatened by a members activities. It was this document which justified the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. |
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