...justified the Czechoslovakian invasion in writings that later became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine: There is no doubt that the peoples of the socialist...socialist countries, nor the worldwide workers' movement, which is waging a struggle for socialism. This means that every Communist Party is responsible not...

...each state "had the right to take its 'own separate road to socialism/ the policies adopted by them 'must damage neither socialism in their own country...fundamental interests of the other socialist countries.' " Were such "damage" to occur, the doctrine clearly implied that "the other socialist states, led by...

...that each nation may take its "own separate road to socialism," but added as a condition that this "must damage neither socialism in their own country...socialist countries, nor the worldwide workers' movement, which is waging a struggle for socialism." 17 According to this declaration (which was soon nicknamed...

...communist state that did not meet Moscow's expectations, sent a chill through The Brezhnev Doctrine "There is no doubt that the peoples of the socialist...socialism in their own country nor the fundamental interest of the other socialist countries nor the worldwide workers movement, which is waging a struggle...

...was also a clear warning to the Rumanian leaders. Its most ominous passage was as follows: There ¡s no doubt that the peoples of the socialist countries...socialism in their own country nor the fundamental interest of the other socialist countries, nor the worldwide workers' movement, which is waging a struggle...