The Leonid Brezhnev Era

• Led Soviet Union from 1964-1982
• Many think this period of deterioration for USSR due to party "apparatchiks" left over from the Stalin regime wanted to return to the old status quo
• Made famous the Brezhnev doctrine: 

"It was the right and duty of fraternal socialist countries to intervene in each others affairs when socialism was threatened"

• He makes this while intervening in Czechoslovakia in 1968

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Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union 1964 - 1982. Many people think that his period was a deterioration for the country due to the "Apparatchiks" that were left over from Stalin reign wanted to go back to old times. Intervened in Czechoslovakia and created the Brezhnev doctrine.