Rendezvous Interrogations Searchlight

Behind the RED FILES, Searchlight presents the story within the story.

If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen,
or if you can't take the kitchen take the sink!

"Khrushchev was saying, 'This isn't an average American kitchen, this is propaganda.' He was reacting, it was so nice, you couldn't allow your Soviet visitors to believe that Americans had kitchens like this, because if they had kitchens like that, capitalism was better than socialism, simple as that!" (click to hear quote)

US Delegation parades through Lenin Square
The U.S. delegation parades at Lenin Central Stadium opening day of the Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow July 27, 1957.

Soviets visit American Exhibition Guide speaks to visitor

Khrushchev visits kitchen pavilion

Visitors at the American National Exhibition tour the Gallery of Portraits of great Americans including the renowned singer Marian Anderson. At the American National Exhibition in Moscow 1959 a guide answers the questions of a pressing crowd. Chairman and Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev visit a class on housekeeping at Eileen University in Iowa September 23, 1959. (click to download 448 kb video)

 

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