Finally, during his visit to Finland in October 1989, Gorbachev openly repudiated the Brezhnev doctrine. The doctrine, Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov stressed, was “dead.” It had been replaced by what he termed the “Sinatra doctrine,” referring to Frank Sinatra’s popular song entitled “My Way.” This implied, as Gerasimov put it, that each East European country was free to carry out political and social changes “their way” without interference from the USSR. At the Warsaw Pact meeting in Moscow in December 1989 the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia was formally condemned as “illegal,” and the member states committed themselves to following a policy of strict noninterference in each other’s internal affairs.