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The Cold War and the Prague Spring
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What was the name of the Soviet leader who ordered the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Leonid Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982. He ordered the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in the country.