The Brezhnev Doctrine
A) promised Soviet support for the "Prague Spring" reformers.
B) demanded that the Berlin Wall be dismantled.
C) threatened the People's Republic of China with nuclear war.
D) was a warning to other communist states to follow the path of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy.
E) promised to respect human rights in exchange for the recognition of the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.

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The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that declared the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in the internal affairs of other communist states if they failed to follow the path of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy. It was used to justify Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. It was a warning to other communist states to toe the line or face Soviet intervention.