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From televisions to shoes, photos from the Library of Congress show what the USSR believed to be their very best technological innovations in 1959.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/06/12/these-photos-show-what-the-soviet-union-thought-the-future-would-look-like/

“You need to have goods to trade,” then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon told Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev as the two walked through a model home on opening day of the American exhibition in Moscow on July 24, 1959, the Associated Press reported.