In 1959, then USSR president Nikita Khrushchev and US president Richard Nixon exchanged heated words during a trade exhibition in Moscow.
Khrushchev remained unimpressed with American household products such as the colour TV and denounced capitalism.
An impromptu debate on the pros of communism vs capitalism followed. It was later dubbed The Kitchen Debate as it took place in kitchen section of the exhibition.
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