What did the Brezhnev Doctrine claim, and which earlier Soviet invasion did it retroactively justify alongside Czechoslovakia?

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The right to intervene militarily in any socialist state threatening to leave Soviet influence; it also retroactively justified the 1956 Hungary invasion. The Brezhnev Doctrine claimed the Soviet Union had the right to use military force in any socialist country whose reforms threatened the wider Eastern Bloc’s interests. It was announced to justify the 1968 Czechoslovakia invasion, and also retroactively covered the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Read more: WorldHist0082 — The Prague Spring, 1968.

What did the Brezhnev Doctrine claim, and which earlier Soviet invasion did it retroactively justify alongside Czechoslovakia?

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