American dream" - in the Soviet Union.
The American National Exhibition in Sokolniki Park in Moscow is one of the main events of the Cold War. The famous "kitchen debate" between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon took place there in 1959. Finding themselves in the kitchen of a model of the American home that its creators claimed every American citizen could afford, politicians debated the merits of socialism and capitalism.
What does this "American Dream" house look like? Why did the kitchen cause so much controversy? And what else do you remember from the exhibition in Sokolniki? Architecture journalist Asia Zolnikova tells the story.
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