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Turning point · The Cold War, 1945–1991
The Long Telegram
22 Feb 1946 — From the US embassy in Moscow, George Kennan wires 5,000 words arguing Soviet hostility is structural and must be met with “patient but firm containment.” Washington finally has a theory.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — The World the War Left in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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