The 1959 Kitchen Debate.

The article describes how Russia became what it is as of 2009. It narrates how it all started on July 24, 1959 when U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita S. Kruschev held what is known as the "kitchen debate" over a model American home at the U.S. National Exhibition in the Sokolniki Park in Moscow. It says that the six-week encounter prepared the way for the Cultural Agreement between the Soviets and Americans where long-term exchanges in all aspects of society led to the glasnost, perestroika and the end of the Cold War.