text: Perhaps the most acute epitaph of the Cold War was written at its birth , by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov , who objected to U.S. demands for an open door for its industrialists throughout We would probably live to see the day when in your own country , on switching on the radio , you would be hearing not so much your own language as one American gramophone record after [ another ] ...
  
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  Molotov 's epitaph is the best writing from the Cold War .