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Another cause of the cold war revolved around a relatively new development in United States-Soviet relations.
At the beginning of 1946, Truman decided that he was "tired of babysitting the Soviets who understand only an iron fist and strong language."
Stalin responded in February with a speech stressing the basic incompatibility between Soviet communism and western democracy, thus inaugurating a new hard line policy.
Frustrated, Washington found meaning in a crucial document known as the "Long Telegram."
In 1946, the Soviet expert George Kennan, sent an 8000 word telegram to Washington from Moscow.
Kennan was a foreign service officer who new Russia well. He understood their history, their culture and their language.
Kennan explained the communist mentality in the following way.
The Soviet's hostility to the west is rooted in the need to legitimize their bloody dictatorship -- they must therefore believe in the inevitable triumph of communism over the beast capitalism.
The Soviets, Kennan continued, would exploit every opportunity to extend their system and therefore could not and would not be converted to a policy of harmony and cooperation.
According to Kennan, Russia's policy was:
to undermine the general and strategic potential of major western powers by a host of subversive measures to destroy individual governments that might stand in the Soviet path,
to do everything possible to set the major Western powers against each other.
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