title: The Allegory of the Socialist Lifestyle: The Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Brussels Expo, its Gold Medal and the Politburo Ana Miljacˇki
abstract: One of the most famous events marking the Cold War tension’s capacity to infiltrate all aspects of life revolved around a washing machine (GE: sunshine yellow). The image of Nixon and Khrushchev standing together at the American Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, observing a scene of suburban domestic life, is second only to images of Sputnik and the first lunar landing in its ability to allegorically summarize the “peaceful race”—Khrushchev’s term of endearment for the Cold War-that held the world i