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Turning point · The Cold War, 1945–1991

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TURNING POINT · THE COLD WAR, 1945–1991

21 Aug 1968 — Half a million Warsaw Pact troops end Czechoslovakia’s “socialism with a human face.” The Brezhnev Doctrine is born: fraternal states may never leave. 1989 is its exact negation.

This is one scene of Chapter 11 — Gorbachev and the Unraveling in The Cold War, 1945–1991.

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