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Updated February 25, 2017. The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy outlined in 1968 which called for the use of Warsaw Pact (but Russian-dominated) troops to intervene in any Eastern Bloc nation which was seen to compromise communist rule and Soviet domination.
Latin brevitas, from brevis, short; see brief. brachylogy the practice of conciseness in speech or writing. laconism, laconicism 1. the practice of using few words to say much. 2. a laconic utterance. âlaconic, n., adj. âlaconical, adj. pauciloquy Rare. the speaking of few words; taciturnity or brevity.