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How did Leonid Brezhnev demonstrate his use of the Brezhnev Doctrine?

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The doctrine was largely a response to the Prague Spring, a period of liberalization instituted in the Soviet-bloc country Czechoslovakia by newly installed leader Alexander Dubček in 1968.

It was viewed as a counterrevolution by officials in Moscow, and at a meeting of Warsaw Pact countries on August 3, Brezhnev first presented his doctrine. He notably stated that all socialist countries had a duty to support and defend socialist gains.
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