“For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”

George F. Kennan

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About George F. Kennan

Diplomat American

George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian best known as an advocate of the policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He anonymously authored the influential "X Article" in Foreign...

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