Impact

• Communist countries in Europe

  Yugoslavia and Romania condemned the Soviet invasion, straining relations between their governments and Moscow.

  The communist parties of Italy and France cut links to Moscow

  The governments of East Germany and Poland welcomed Brezhnev's actions, feeling more secure that they would not be challenged by reformers in their own countries.
• The defeat of the Prague Spring led to greater Soviet control of the members of the Warsaw Pact. This was emphasised by the Brezhnev doctrine, which stated that members of the Warsaw pact were under the close control of the Soviet Union.
• USA and the Soviet Union


  The USA and the other Western governments were angered by the invasions and many of them made strong protests against the SU.

  There was an attempt to pass a formal resolution criticising the invasion in the United Nations but this was vetoed by the Soviet Union.

  The Soviet Union saw that whilst the USA might make protests, it would not take direct action to oppose the Soviet Union in Europe