Kennan's opinion was that this misunderstanding: all came down to one sentence in the "X" article where I said that wherever these people, meaning the Soviet leadership, confronted us with dangerous hostility anywhere in the world, we should do everything possible to contain it and not let them expand any further.
"Neboli ako Hitler… toto nedorozumenie pochádza z jednej vety v X článku, kde som napísal, že kdekoľvek by nás títo ľudia, teda sovietske vedenie, vo svete konfrontovalo, mali by sme urobiť všetko možné, aby sme ich zadržali a nenechali ich ďalej expandovať.