Sokolniki Park
Sprawling wooded park where a Cold War kitchen showdown once drew millions of visitors.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sokolniki Park in Moscow centers on July 1959, when Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon toured a model American house built here for an exhibition of dishwashers, cars, and a supposedly affordable dream home. You'll hear the argument that broke out beside a kitchen sink over which system truly served its people, and how millions of Soviet visitors filed through the exhibits in the weeks that followed. The park's own name reaches back further, to the tsar's falconers who once kept hawks on this same ground.
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