... of eliminating communist beliefs and ideals in the western hemisphere. The battle lines would be drawn around the question of democracy versus communism (the fact that communists had been the most effective campaigners against fascism in Italy during the war being ignored), and as United States intervention effectively campaigned it; it was a matter of "communist dictatorship- versus the idea of " ... much of a disaster voting communism would be in Italy, the United states portrayed the elections as the American way of life versus the Soviet way of life, a bold move considering most Ital...

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... toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." He correctly indicates that waging war is not always the most effective way to achieve goals, especially political goals because war does not change the way people think, if anything, it makes them less inclined to change because war brings nothing ... is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it if the light we use is but a paltry and narrow taper, most objects will cast a shadow wider than themselves." Kennan a...

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