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How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)

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The Kitchen Debate

Yuguslavia started building american style super markets, which created new buyers for processed and frozen foods from America. The exhibition opening was attended by nikita krusce and then u.S vice president richard nixon. They engaged in what came to be known as the kitchen debate. Krustef declared that by out producing the u. S in per capita meat and milk production,. That would be the soviet equivalent of ing american capitalism with a torpedo. Nixon retorted that if there was going to be a torpedo fired, it was going to be by americas farmers and ranchers....

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