Kitchen Debate

As a kitchen debate an unusual debate between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev is called before an exhibition kitchen.

During the visit of the American National Exhibition in 1959 in Moscow, which took place as part of a cultural exchange program, led by the then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in front of television cameras on July 24, an impromptu debate about the advantages and disadvantages of communism and capitalism. Nixon promised Khrushchev that each of his words that he would say here, will send uncensored on American television. At the same time Khrushchev made in exuberant nature Nixon's hand so tightly that it could not break free from the handle.

The kitchen debate reflected the Cold War on a personal level in an exaggerated manner.