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After the Prague Spring in 1968, the Consultative Committee was set up. In this committee, Ministers of Defence and Heads of State from the Central European occupied countries gathered to talk as equals and allies, but in reality all decisions were still made in the Kremlin. During [[Czech Republic#The 1968 Soviet Invasion|'Operation Danube']], the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the `allied' divisions of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation were integrated in the Soviet Armies. None of the Central European countries had the right to set up its own Corps, Armies or Fronts. They had only divisions commanded by Soviet generals. In the event of war with [[Nato]], they would be fully integrated into the United (or Soviet) Armed Forces.
After the Prague Spring in 1968, the Consultative Committee was set up. In this committee, Ministers of Defence and Heads of State from the Central European occupied countries gathered to talk as equals and allies, but in reality all decisions were still made in the Kremlin. During [[Czech Republic#The 1968 Soviet Invasion|'Operation Danube']], the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the `allied' divisions of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation were integrated in the Soviet Armies. None of the Central European countries had the right to set up its own Corps, Armies or Fronts. They had only divisions commanded by Soviet generals. In the event of war with [[Nato]], they would be fully integrated into the United (or Soviet) Armed Forces.
==Brezhnev Doctrine==
{{See also|Prague Spring}}
In 1968 elements of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia rapidly began to reform their rule, loosen censorship, and strengthen Western ties. In response, Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia and installed a new regime. Soviet Premier [[Leonid Brezhnev]] announced, "Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is completely [[Psychological_warfare#Normalization|normalized]]." Out of these events arose the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, which warned that the Soviet Union would act to maintain its hegemony in Eastern Europe. Soviet suppression of the reform movement reduced blatant gestures of defiance on the part of Romania and served as a threatening example to the Polish Solidarity trade union movement in 1980. But it also helped disillusion communist parties in Western Europe to the extent that by 1977 most of the leading parties embraced Eurocommunism, which freed them to pursue political programs independent of Moscow's dictates.
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