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In 1947, George Kennan, the American diplomat to Moscow said:

“The Soviet system bears within it the seeds of its own decay.”

What did he mean?

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Step-by-step explanation:

At the outset of the Cold War, diplomat George Kennan wrote that the Soviet system “bears within it the seeds of its own decay” and argued for a strategy of “long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment.”

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