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#reading | Kennan had been stationed at the U.S Moscow embassy from 1944 as minister-counselor. Although he was highly critical of the Soviet system, the mood within the US State Department was one of friendship towards the Soviets, since they were considered an important ally in the war against Nazi Germany. In February 1946 the US Moscow embassy got a question from the United States Treasury asking why the Soviets were not supporting the newly created World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In response, Kennan wrote his Long Telegram outlining his views of the Soviets, which arrived in Washington on 22 February 1946. Among its most remembered parts was that while Soviet power was "impervious to the logic of reason," it was "highly sensitive to the logic of force."

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