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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.
It appears in his play, Hamlet, in the second act where Polonius says, â Since brevity is the soul of wit / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be briefâ¦â However, the doubt about the creation of this phrase lurks among the literary circles.t appears in his play, Hamlet, in the second act where Polonius says, â Since brevity is the soul of wit / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be briefâ¦â However, the doubt about the creation of this phrase lurks among the literary circles.