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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.
BREV refers only to the ownership of the design, not to the gold content or purity, and the inscription can be seen inside jewelry, music pieces, pipes and a variety of other gold items. There is a similar patent inscription Brevet, which refers to a French patent, but this inscription is spelled completely out, whereas the Brevetto inscription is most often abbreviated to BREV.