Novorossiysk in the postwar battleship gap

Was the Soviet battleship Novorossiysk a credible threat to NATO after the Second World War?

Yes; she was not a fast battleship, but in the pre-missile gap her gun power could still destroy lighter surface forces.

Novorossiysk was a rebuilt 27-knot battleship rather than a true fast battleship, but her heavy guns still overmatched many postwar surface ships. Before missiles became fully effective battleship killers, an encounter with a weaker NATO group could therefore have produced serious losses despite her age.