de:Sinatra-Doktrin The Sinatra Doctrine was the name that the Soviet government of Mikhail Gorbachev used jokingly to describe their policy of allowing neighboring Warsaw Pact nations to determine their own internal affairs. This doctrine, named after the Frank Sinatra song "My Way" because it allowed these nations to go their own way, contrasted with the earlier Brezhnev Doctrine, which had been used to justify the invasions of Czechoslovakia in 1968 as well as the non-Warsaw pact nation of Afghanistan in 1979.

The phrase was coined on 25 October 1989 by Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, who has a reputation as a wit.

As a result of this new policy, the various Eastern Bloc allies of the Soviet Union initiated democratic reforms and, in 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down, signalling the end of the Cold War.