feb 22, 1946 - "long telegram":George Kennan, the American charge d’affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. He provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America’s Cold War policy of containment.
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feb 22, 1946
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~ 79 years ago