Gorbachev, Thatcher, Bush, and Mitterrand remember 1989 Nov 10, 2009
Gorbachev: During the [former leader of the Communist Party, Konstantin] Chernenko funeral, when I spoke with George Bush (then vice president) and Margaret Thatcher, I was also talking with the leaders of the Eastern European countries, I said to all of them: "I want to assure you that the principles that used to just be proclaimed equality of states and noninterference in internal affairs will now be our real policy. Therefore you bear responsibility for affairs in your own country. We... (Christian Science Monitor)
Who ended the Cold War? Nov 5, 2009
Early on, he hinted that he would no longer apply the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, which the Soviets had used to justify military intervention in satellite countries ... He abandoned the concept of international class struggle that had underpinned Soviet foreign policy, discarded the Brezhnev Doctrine, and renounced the use or threat of force to resolve conflicts. (Boston Globe)
The man who pulled the Iron Curtain Oct 30, 2009
Nemeth was convinced that the so-called Brezhnev doctrine, in which a previous Soviet leader had asserted the right to invade other countries to defend orthodox communist rule, was now dead. But the possibility that Gorbachev would be deposed by hardliners, who might exploit the fact that the Soviet Union still had many thousands of troops stationed in Hungary, was a constant worry. (BBC News -- Europe)
Twenty years later: Why the Berlin Wall fell: Swaminathan S A Aiyar Oct 25, 2009
The Brezhnev Doctrine of the Soviet Union held that once a country became Communist, Soviet arms would keep it Communist ... When Gorbachev became Soviet president, he withdrew from Afghanistan , ending the Brezhnev Doctrine. (India Times)
A Doctrine of No Retreat Aug 23, 2009
WASHINGTON -- As memories of the Cold War fade, like photographs bleached by sunlight, few remember the Brezhnev Doctrine. It was enunciated by Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw in November 1968 as a retrospective justification for the Soviet-led invasion of Prague the previous August by Warsaw Pact forces to halt Czechoslovakia's liberalization. (Townhall.com)
Joe Scarborough Goes Paleo -- Maybe Jul 24, 2009
Although the Bush Doctrine has some precedent in Cold War-era rollback, it was as alien to conservatism as the Brezhnev Doctrine. Scarborough writes that even an institution such as the United Nations is better suited to military adventurism as social work: Since it is in the best interest of the United States to refrain from nation-exhausting wars, conservative leaders should direct all those who wish to advance humanitarian missions through military troops to take their cause to the United... (The American Conservative)
Letters Jul 5, 2009
The proclaimed policies espoused by various countries to assert their "selective sovereignty" over other states, such as America's Monroe Doctrine and the USSR's Brezhnev Doctrine, have been used to justify invasions, subversions, coercions and perversions of justice, culture and peace. "Limited sovereignty", indeed, is the implicit philosophy of a First World still governed by racist ideas of white Judeo-Christian superiority and wisdom over the Third World. (Asia Times Online)
