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exif: {"Image DocumentName": "Document D. George E Kennan, The Long Telegram, 1946 Excerpted from U", "Image ImageDescription": "Document D George E Kennan, The Long Telegram, 1946 Excerpted from U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946 (Washington, D.C., 1969), 6:697-99, and A diplomat in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and a leading expert on Soviet affairs, George E Kennan sent a long, 8, 000-word, secret telegram to the State Department early in 1946 sketching the roots of Soviet policy and warning of serious difficulties with the Soviet Union in the years ahead. The stilted language is the product of dropped words to shorten the telegram. Kennan recommended a long-term, firm policy of resistance by the United States to Soviet expansionism, known as containment. At bottom of Kremlin s neurotic view of world affairs is traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity\u2026[T]hey have learned to seek security only in patient but deadly struggle for total destruction of rival power, never in compacts and compromises with it\u2026 Agencies utilized [by the Soviet Union] for promulgation of policies on this plane are following: Inner central core of Communist Parties in other countries tightly coordinated and directed by Moscow Rank and file of Communist Parties\u2026 National associations or bodies which can be dominated or influenced\u2026These include: labor unions, Youth leagues, women s organizations, racial societies, religious societies, social organizations, cultural groups, liberal magazines, publishing houses, etc. International organizations which can be similarly penetrated through influence over various national components. Labor, youth and women s organizations are prominent among them ... In summary, we have here a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with US there can be no permanent modus vivendi, that it is desirable and necessary that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted, our traditional way of life be destroyed, the international authority of our state be broken, if Soviet power is to be secure\u2026 Problem of how to cope with this force [is] undoubtedly greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced and probably greatest it will ever have to face I would like to record my conviction that problem is within our power to solve and that without recourse to any general military conflict.", "Image XResolution": "200", "Image YResolution": "200", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}