Nixon, Khrushchev And A Story Of Cold War Love »
Posted By Progressive 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsFifty years ago this summer, more than 2 million people thronged to a leafy park in Moscow, where a set of newly constructed, futuristic-looking pavilions brimmed with the latest American consumer goods.
It was barely six years after dictator Josef Stalin's death ended the worst Soviet repressions. Braving a broiling summer sun, the Soviets gawked at Polaroid cameras, the latest washing machines and a model house.
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