Introduction of Myself

I am George Kennan and I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 26, 1904. Thankfully, I was given a substantial amount of education at Princeton University and I was ultimately appointed as vice-consul in Geneva. I was thoroughly excited to be in such an involved position, but this changed later on. As I was transferred from Geneva to Berlin to Tallinn and then to Riga, I was trained to become an expert on the ways and history of the Soviet Union. By this time, I thought I had learned and plowed just about all the information anyone possibly could receive and I was a bit tired of merely learning. However, I was sent once again to study Russia at the University of Berlin, a time when I learned much about other governments and workings, stuffing information into my head. Eventually, when honorable Roosevelt made diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, I became the 3rd (how proud my friends and family were) secretary at the embassy in Moscow, and two years later, Vienna. While I was delighted with the fact that I was promoted in a position that no longer needed any extensive studying, but more application of my studies, I did not quite agree to the irony that the US should support the Soviet Union and oppose Germany. I thought this would hurt the reputation of the US, but there was not much I could do at that point in my life.
When America was bombed at Pearl Harbor and became a part of the Second World War, I was weary of what could become a very destructive war. When that event happened, I was at Nazi Germany, yes a very, very bad place to be in. What was even worse was, I scorned the actions of Stalin. I had an opposing opinion in a violent country, but I securely kept my opinions with myself and after the war, returned safely to the US where Marshall made me a director of the State Department’s policy-planning staff. It was I who decided the spread of communism would be threatening and I finally took action (how refreshed my heart was!). I organized the idea of containment.
Later, I also wrote an article in the Foreign Affairs magazine, of course, without my name, just for security reasons. I felt a great urge to express my contained emotions—while I felt it was highly necessary to contain communism from spreading, I could not possibly contain my emotions against communism and the Soviet Union. I pointed out the main plan I believed the Soviet Union held—to spread Soviet control over the world through the spread of communism. I believed that since US is a powerful country, if US (as well as the west) showed great opposition to the spread of communism, the Soviets would back down.
Thank goodness my ideas were not ignored at last, unlike some other unfortunate politicians during my time. My ideas became real policies that formulated aspects of the Truman Doctrine and the European Recovery Program. Yes, I felt a personal dislike towards communism and the Soviet Union, but I felt overall that the spread of communism would disrupt the very existence and creation of US, a free country. And that was the peak of my career. Eventually, when I was 52 years old, I became a professor of historical studies at Princeton, but it was not only teaching that I focused on, of course since that would be far too boring. I had become too saturated in my involvement with world affairs and simply had to work on my views on containment. I, a bit less biased on the issue having let much of my emotions out in the Foreign Affairs magazine, supported a disengagement program from areas of problems with the Soviet Union. I was a professor until Kennedy made me the US ambassador to Yugoslavia until I was 59 years old.