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part of Gorbachev’s commitment towards New Thinking at home and abroad → Soviet foreign policy underwent change known as “de ideologization”
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meant end to all ideologically driven engagements designed to promote communism globally and challenge US
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Gorbachev recognised → in order to successfully reform soviet economy → he had to reduce large amts of money being spent overseas in Superpower competition with US
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moreover he had shown he was more prepared to meet Reagan
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under Gorbachev → USSR would → no longer intervene in other countries to supp comm regimes or takeover → as it did under former leaders such as Brezhnev
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to demonstrate his commitment towards de ideologization → Gorbachev withdrew troops from military engagements in Afghanistan and Angola alongside soviet supp for comm regimes in Cuba and Vietnam\
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next he was prepared to tell the hard-line communist leaders of eastern Europe → that they had to change too
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1989 → Gorbachev → called leaders of Warsaw pact countries together
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explained to them he was now committed to policy of non intervention in affairs of other countries.
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jokingly referred to this policy s “Sinatra Doctrine”