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 policy introduced by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1968 stating that any attempt by a communist country to move away from the path of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy would be seen as a threat to the entire socialist bloc, and the Soviet Union would intervene to prevent it. This policy was used to justify the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 to suppress the Prague Spring reform movement.