A common Russian joke went, “Stalin proved that just one person could manage the country. [This man] proved that a country doesn’t need to be managed at all.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this long-ruling Soviet leader who sent tanks to quash reforms undertaken by Alexander Dubček.
ANSWER: Leonid Brezhnev [or Leonid Ilich Brezhnev]
[10e] The Brezhnev Doctrine, which affirmed the Soviet Union’s right to intervene in favor of Communist governments, was first applied following this 1968 period of liberalization in Czechoslovakia.
ANSWER: Prague Spring [or Pražské jaro or Pražská jar]
[10h] One sign of Brezhnev’s declining health was his insistence of conducting this song at a party congress in Poland. The title of this song, written by anarchist Eugene Pottier, derives from an 1864 meeting in Paris.
ANSWER: “The Internationale” [or “L’Internationale”]
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