22 févr. 1946 - Long Telegram

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George Kennan, an official at the US Embassy in Moscow, was asked to provide a summary of what the Soviets were up to and their intentions in Eastern Europe. Kennan’s response became known as The Long Telegram because it was 8,000 words long. The importance of the Kennan telegram is that it shows that at this point there was still no concept of a Cold War. The American State Department had to be alerted by a Moscow-based official of the Soviets’ activities.

Kennan’s telegram said that the USSR was heavily armed and feared the outside world. It was determined to spread communism and therefore there could be no peaceful co-existence between the USSR and the USA. However, the USA was stronger than the USSR and so communism could be ‘contained’.

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