Emperor
(
January 1,
1907 AD~
November 10,
1982 AD)
Externally, his emphasis on diplomacy, a "limited sovereignty theory", claiming that when the Warsaw Pact member countries of the socialist regime is threatened, the Soviet military intervention can be, this is the famous Brezhnev Doctrine. He sent troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. May 1976, he became Marshal of the Soviet Union. From 1977 to 1982 before he died, he was appointed Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. 1979, as the new Afghan government abolished the pro-Soviet policy, he launched the war in Afghanistan, as the decline and ultimate disintegration of the Soviet Union an important factor.