Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

After Brezhnev came to power, he denied Khrushchev’s reforms and Khrushchev The husband's "Three Harmonies Line" adopted a hard line externally and promoted the "theory of limited sovereignty." He deployed millions of troops on the Sino-Soviet border, sent troops to Mongolia, and even fought fiercely with the Chinese army on Zhenbao Island. He claimed that when the socialist regimes of Warsaw Pact member states were threatened, the Soviet Union could intervene with force. This was the famous Brezhnev Doctrine. He sent troops to invade Czechoslovakia in 1968. In 1979, as the new Afghan government canceled its pro-Soviet policy, he launched the Afghan War, which became one of the important factors leading to the decline and eventual disintegration of the Soviet Union. He adhered to Stalinism and restored the policies of the Stalin era. He ordered an end to the vindication of unjust, false, and wrong cases, and an end to criticism of Stalin.

During the late Brezhnev administration, the national economy declined due to Soviet-style welfare policies and huge military spending. In particular, agricultural production declined year after year. The Soviet Union’s control over Eastern European countries also rapidly weakened. The Soviet Union became If the outside world is strong but the inside is weak, the national treasury will be empty and the national strength will decline. Brezhnev engaged in nepotism, corruption within the party became more and more intense, and senior cadres became a privileged class. He once had a classic saying: "No one can survive on wages." Under the influence of this suggestion, corruption spread like cancer cells in the Soviet Communist Party, laying the foundation for the collapse of the Soviet Communist Party. seed.