Is there a Soviet equivalent to foundational Cold War documents such as the Long Telegram and NSC-68?

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The most common answer ("accepted narrative") to this question would be the Soviet Ambassador in Washington Nikolai Novikov's telegram of September 1946.

However, given the traditional and consistent Russian/Soviet mistrust of the West, it can hardly be viewed as a "milestone" similar to The Long Telegram. Rather than shape and direct policy, it merely helped reinforce the existing position and alert Moscow to the Washington's awakening to Moscow's attitudes.

Suffice it to observe that USSR suppressed democratic opposition to communism in Eastern Europe from the get go, even before the VE day.

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