Associations to the word «Brezhnev»

Wiktionary

BREZHNEV, proper noun. A transliteration of the Russian surname Бре́жнев.
BREZHNEV DOCTRINE, noun. A policy which stated that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene in places where capitalism threatened communism.
BREZHNEV DOCTRINE, noun. (by extension) Any similar policy of ideologically motivated intervention in the affairs of other states.
BREZHNEV REPUBLICAN, proper noun. (US) a member of the Republican party whose policies resemble those of the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev

Dictionary definition

BREZHNEV, noun. Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union (1906-1982).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope