On February 22, 1946, George F. Kennan, a career diplomat working in the American embassy in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word cable to the State Department in Washington.In it, he explained why the Soviet Union behaved as it did, outlining its unique combination of a communist ideology and historical Russian paranoia and suspicion.&nbsp;
He also gave a prescription for how the United States should respond.
Although he couldn’t have known it at the time, that message became the foundation for American policy during the Cold War.&nbsp;
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