In light of The Lives of Others, a film about East Germany in the 1980s, what seems accurate, even prescient, about Kennan's analysis of communism in 1947?

In his 1947 essay "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," George Kennan argued that the Soviet Union was expansionist and that its goal was to spread communism around the world. He also argued that the Soviet Union was not interested in co-existing with the West and that the only way to deal with it was through containment.

The Lives of Others is a film about East Germany in the 1980s, and it provides a glimpse into the everyday lives of people living under a communist regime. The film shows how the government controlled every aspect of people's lives, from the music they listened to, to the books they read, to the clothes they wore. It also showed how the government used surveillance and intimidation to control the population.

Kennan's analysis of communism seems accurate in light of The Lives of Others. The Soviet Union was indeed expansionist, and its goal was to spread communism around the world. The Soviet Union was not interested in co-existing with the West, and the only way to deal with it was through containment.