How it was №1 13.03.2001 (2001)

The program reconstructs the events of 1959, when the first American exhibition was opened in Moscow's Sokolniki Park.

Video chronicle: fragments of the film "Moscow Newsreel" (1959).

Old wooden houses in the southwest of Moscow, against the backdrop of multi-story new buildings.

Construction of new neighborhoods.

Highway with trucks and cars.

Fragment of the film "Time for a Big Housewarming" (1959).

Nikita Khrushchev speaks at the congress.

Speaks (synchronously) about the housing problem as one of the most acute in the social sector; compares the situation with the USA. USA black-and-white chronicle: New York, workers on the street reading newspapers, residential areas - drying laundry in the street, American slums; black children, women washing laundry, a family preparing food in the kitchen, homeless people on the street.

Victoria Khrulkevich shares her memories of how the organizational work was carried out, how communication with the American side took place.

Video chronicle: Opening of the exhibition in Sokolniki on July 24, 1959. Khrushchev reads a welcoming speech at a ceremonial rally on the opening day of the exhibition.

Richard Nixon - Vice President of the United States on the podium at the pavilion in Sokolniki.

Nixon cuts the ribbon at the entrance to the pavilion.

Yuri Lepanov talks about the very beginning of Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow, when on the first day, he decided to visit the Danilovsky Market, where he met a weigher.

The translator recalls how the "kitchen dispute" between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon took place.

What difficulties he had to face while translating the statement "... we do not hit flies with our nostrils ...".

Fragment of the recording of Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the exhibition in Sokolniki on July 24, 1959. Khrushchev agrees that "the Americans are smart people... and they raised the economy to such a level... but we, you know, don't just hit flies with our nostrils.." - he speaks synchronously.

Boris Runov describes Nixon and Khrushchev's visit to the agricultural pavilion, when, stopping by the microwave oven, Khrushchev said that we don't need that.

Yuri Leanov says that Khrushchev's famous phrase "Kuz'kina mat" was first heard during the "kitchen argument" and how he had to translate it.

A fragment of a recording of Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the exhibition in Sokolniki on July 24, 1959. Nikita Khrushchev speaks about the advantages of the Soviet system (synchronously) and that in seven years the USSR will be at the same level as America.

Artistically waving his hand in a farewell gesture, he declares that the USSR will definitely overtake the USA. Boris Runov recalls the excitement that Pepsi Cola caused among Soviet visitors.

Yuri Lepanov tells how Nikita Khrushchev was presented with a Pepsi drink specially made for him.

A fragment from the film "On the Black Path".

Tells about the exhibition taking place in Sokolniki.

General plans of open pavilions on the street.

Muscovites are offered to try Pepsi Cola.

A queue for the drink.

Sculptures by American artists.

Khrushchev's grandson, Nikita Khrushchev (in the auditorium), recalls how his grandfather presented the American side with a package of Borjomi.

He shows a badge from the exhibition.

Victoria Khrulkevich tells about numerous curiosities of the events of 1959: how during the exhibition a man came, introduced himself as a miner from Donbass and poured out a bag of Soviet money in front of the organizers with a request to sell him one of the American cars presented in the exposition.

Fragment of the film "On the Black Path".

Participants of the exhibition.

Soviet people in the book pavilion of the exhibition.

Leafing through publications.

The voice-over announcer talks about the "veiled propaganda" contained in American literature; about the hidden work of the CIA in Sokolniki, etc.