Impacts

• The communist party demoted Dubcek and chose a new leader, Husak who oversaw a crackdown: reformers were expelled and censorship was brought back
• Relations between the soviet union and china worsened because they didn't like the idea of the SSR invading another communist country
• the Brezhnev Doctrine

  • Announced on 3rd August 1968
  • Stated that though socialist nations were free to choose their own path, no socialist nation should be allowed to damage socialism itself
  • justification for the invasion of Czechslovakia
  • It meant no other eastern european countries risked making significant reforms until the 1980s