Question

What is the state of relations between the Soviet Union and the West between 1965 and 1984?

Answer 1

1. Krushchev had been replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as the first secretary of the communist party in 1964 and Aleksey Kosygin had been appointed as the prime minister.

2. Under this doctrine called ''Doctrine of Brezhnev'' Soviet and other Warsaw troops went on to invade Czechoslovakia giving a right to communist parties ruling or invading into others if at all the other seemed to be a threat to international communist movement.

3. This later led to a war between Chinese and Soviet across the border in 1969. The period of Brezhnev's rule is referred to as ''The period of stagnation'' in Russia even today.

4. So in 1972, an agreement between the US and the Soviet went on signing SALT-1 arms control agreement in order to stop a cold war between them.

5. In 1974, Soviet eased its emigration policy so that it could get favoured trade with the US.

6. In 1979, the US and the Soviet signed SALT-2 so that Soviet to invade Afghanistan and later on ending the rage of war with the West.

7. Kosygin had been replaced by Nikolay Tikhonov in 1980 and Brezhnev had been replaced by KGB chief Yuri Andropov.in 1982 and finally according to the timeline provided in the question Andropov had been replaced by Konstantin Chernenko in 1984.