Editing Kitchen Debate (section)

{{short description|1959 series of exchanges between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon}}
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[[File:Kitchen debate.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|Soviet premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]] (left, foreground) and U.S. vice president [[Richard Nixon]] (right) debate the merits of [[communism]] versus [[capitalism]] in a model American kitchen at the [[American National Exhibition]] in Moscow (July 1959); photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran, Library of Congress collection]]
[[File:1959 Khrushchev, Nixon, Brezhnev.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|U.S. vice president Nixon spars with Khrushchev before reporters and onlookers, including Politburo members Leonid Brezhnev, Anastas Mikoyan and [[Yekaterina Furtseva]] at the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park, in Moscow, 1959]]

The '''Kitchen Debate''' ({{langx|ru|Кухонные дебаты|translit=Kukhonnye debaty}}) was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between U.S. vice president (later U.S. president) [[Richard Nixon]] and Soviet premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]], at the opening of the [[American National Exhibition]] at [[Sokolniki Park]] in [[Moscow]] on July 24, 1959.

An entire house was built for the exhibition which the American exhibitors claimed that anyone in the United States could afford. It was filled with labor-saving and recreational devices meant to represent the fruits of the capitalist American consumer market. The debate was recorded on color videotape, and Nixon made reference to this fact; it was subsequently broadcast in both countries.