Editing Brezhnev Doctrine (section)

==Post-Brezhnev Doctrine==
The abandonment of the doctrine had a major effect on the way that the Soviets dealt with countries they once tried to control. The new Sinatra doctrine allowed other countries that were oppressed under communist intervention, to go about their own [[political reform]]. This carried over internally as well. In fact, the Soviet Union's biggest problem after the removal of the Brezhnev Doctrine, was the [[Khrushchev]] Dilemma. This did not address how to stop internal political reform, but how to tame the physical violence that comes along with it. It had become clear that the Soviet Union was beginning to loosen up.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|title=Beyond the Brezhnev Doctrine: A New Era in Soviet-East European Relations?|last=Kramer|first=Mark|publisher=International Security|year=1989–1990|pages=25–27}}</ref>

It is possible to pinpoint the renouncement of the Brezhnev Doctrine as a factor in the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]]. Countries that were once micromanaged now could do what they wanted to politically, because the Soviets could no longer try to conquer where they saw fit. With that, the Soviet Union began to collapse. While the communist agenda had caused infinite problems for other countries, it was the driving force behind the Soviet Union staying together. After all, it seems that the removal of the incentive to conquer, and forcing of communism upon other nations, defeated the one thing Soviet Russia had always been about, the expansion of Communism.<ref name=":7" />

With the fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine, came the fall of the [[Warsaw Pact]], and perhaps the final moment for the Soviet Union, the fall of the [[Berlin Wall]] that had [[Emigration from the Eastern Bloc|prevented the migration of East Germans to West Germany]]. The Brezhnev Doctrine coming to a close, was perhaps the beginning of the end for one of the strongest empires in the world's history, the Soviet Union.<ref name=":7" />