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Kennan's long telegram began as an analysis of Joseph Stalin's speech at the Bolshoi Theatre on February 9, 1946 (pictured). Joseph Stalin, General Secretary and de facto leader of the Soviet Union, spoke at the Bolshoi Theatre on February 9, 1946, the night before the symbolic 1946 Supreme Soviet election. The speech did not discuss foreign ...
Unlike the "long telegram," Kennan's well-timed article appearing in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs under the pseudonym "X", titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct", did not begin by emphasizing "traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity"; [23] instead, it asserted that Stalin's policy was shaped by a combination of Marxist ...
The world's first electronic computer weighed 30 tons, had 18,000 vacuum tubes, and was 8 feet (2.4 m) tall, 3 feet (0.91 m) deep, and 100 feet (30 m) long. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ] One of the computer's first tests was computing trajectories for rocket launching, "completing in ten days a job which would have required three months of concentrated ...
On this day in 1911 the first telegram was sent around the world via a commercial service from the New York Times' office to test how fast a message could travel through a dedicated cable.
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(From cleanup) The Long telegram needs to be more than a long quote: ie who context, issuer (any other historians top a century?) etc. Referred to Lenev · Katefan0 17:34, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC) Edited the article, dramatically shortened the quote, and summarized it.
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