Throughout August 1968, the Soviet media portrayed Czechoslovakia as a massive threat to the USSR. Brezhnev went further and put forward a justification to why he invaded Czechoslovakia, in the form of a doctrine.
According to this Doctrine, the USSR had every right to invade any country in the eastern Bloc, whose action appeared to threaten the existence of the Eastern Bloc. Brezhnev argued that Dubcek's actions threatened to undermine the Warsaw Pact and Communist control in Eastern Europe, and therefore the Soviet Union had to invade.
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