What Does George F. Kennan's Long Telegraph Mean
In George F. Kennan's Long Telegraph, he outlines three main points. The first the Soviet Union and their leaders ideology which he saw as an expansion of ancient Russian values. The second being Kennan's view surrounding the Soviet fear of the Western society. The final point Kennan makes is his own beliefs and perspectives surrounding what America should do in order to take action against the soviets
Kennan believes that Soviet ideology was an expansion of ancient Russian values, these values being the want to expand soviet territory and eventually destroy rivalling countries and those countries belief systems. Kennan also claimed that the Soviets strong beliefs in communism only intensified the Russian societies fear of the western world pre cold war as the want and desire for eternal thirst for communist power grew. Kennan believes that this gave the leaders of the Soviet communist party the excuse they were looking for to try dominate the rest of eastern and western Europe in order to make them one giant communist state with the Soviet Union being the head of that state. …show more content…
Kennan argued that this is the reason of the growing angst among Soviet leaders, and the belief of these leaders that the western, capitalist world was an evil and bad place. Kennan continued to argue in his article that the Soviet leaders backed by the society which idolised the leaders were single-minded about the moving forward of the Soviet troops into the rest of Europe. And the mind-set of these leaders going into battle was there in order to try and defeat the capitalistic superpower even if this did result in an imperialistic
Kennan believes that Soviet ideology was an expansion of ancient Russian values, these values being the want to expand soviet territory and eventually destroy rivalling countries and those countries belief systems. Kennan also claimed that the Soviets strong beliefs in communism only intensified the Russian societies fear of the western world pre cold war as the want and desire for eternal thirst for communist power grew. Kennan believes that this gave the leaders of the Soviet communist party the excuse they were looking for to try dominate the rest of eastern and western Europe in order to make them one giant communist state with the Soviet Union being the head of that state. …show more content…
Kennan argued that this is the reason of the growing angst among Soviet leaders, and the belief of these leaders that the western, capitalist world was an evil and bad place. Kennan continued to argue in his article that the Soviet leaders backed by the society which idolised the leaders were single-minded about the moving forward of the Soviet troops into the rest of Europe. And the mind-set of these leaders going into battle was there in order to try and defeat the capitalistic superpower even if this did result in an imperialistic