Novikov telegram

In September 1946, Nikolai Novikov, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, sent a telegram to Moscow, commissioned and co-authored by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, that described the United States as governed by monopoly capitalists building up their military strength to prepare for a future war aimed at winning world supremacy. It is remembered as the Soviet counterpart to George Kennan's American Long Telegram sent earlier the same year, part of an exchange of hardline assessments that contributed to escalating rhetoric and mutual suspicion as the wartime alliance between Washington and Moscow gave way to Cold War rivalry. Some of Novikov's own papers documenting the telegram were not made public until 1990, during the glasnost period of Soviet openness.