Chapter 1003 – A Debate of Chicken Feathers

This exposition hall is really nice, I can see that the Soviet side is also very important, giving the Americans face.

A certain gentleman who was a thief and exposed the bottom line of the free world to the culture czar, looking up and down as if everything had nothing to do with him.

“So what is the use of this sweeper? It’s not like it exists in the middle of mass life.”

Although Foltseva was smiling, there was something aggressively questioning in her tone, “Like the Vice-President said, this machine can replace the labor of housewives? It can even replace the wife, the original amicable husband-wife relationship, the wife can be replaced by the machine?”

Nixon used the terms housewife and woman interchangeably in his conversation with Khrushchev.

This was a common realization among Americans in the 1950s, and Nixon, as a politician, was not exempt. It is important to realize that the feminist movement is still considered by American conservatives as a traditional threat to American liberal values.

It was during this break in the conversation that Foltseva stepped forward and joined the discussion, taking Nixon’s words as her point of entry.

Foltseva is a woman, or the highest-ranking and most powerful woman in the entire Soviet Union, and as soon as she opens her mouth, she steers the conversation to the issue of women’s rights, seizing on the loopholes in Nixon’s words to launch an attack.

“Feminist motherland, horrible as it is.” Alan Wilson muttered in his mind, but there were fully automated electronic cameras recording all around him, which would soon be spread all over the world.

Fully automatic electronic camera is also not open to the general public of the United States exposition exhibits, know a few people not many. The Soviet Union knows the person may only Foltseva a person, do not ask, ask is Alan Wilson also do not know how to leak.

Obviously Foltseva was prepared for the possibility of a heated debate, learned of the existence of fully automatic electronic cameras, the idea of joining in, for their own career clan considerations.

The member of the Soviet Central Presidium himself came down to the ring to box, the power is as terrifying as it is, a veteran politician Nixon obviously did not expect this kind of scene, not at all prepared for it, “Uh, we respect women, and the free world of course focuses on guarding the concept of the family. Ms. Foltseva, you seem to have misunderstood some of the issues, I mean ……”

“The meaning is already apparent in Mr. Vice President’s words.” Foltseva threw her winks and smiled warmly, “It seems that the issue of gender equality is still in a very sharp area in the United States.”

“This very abstract issue is different for people, and for many families it is their own problem. As a government, we can’t use our executive power to direct and command what should be done. The U.S. government can’t be like the Soviet government, telling its citizens what they should and shouldn’t do.”

Being attacked so suddenly by Foltseva, Nixon was extremely passive for a moment, but after a period of time when his head was blank, Nixon, as a veteran politician, still quickly found a way to cope with the female boxer and mocked the big government of the Soviet Union.

At the heart of the current American vision of freedom is economic affluence and consumer choice in the context of traditional family life – a life of freedom that offers men far more opportunities for the “pursuit of happiness” than women can enjoy.

The Soviet Union, a country that exported women’s rights, and Foltseva, a member of the Central Presidium of the USSR, came to the ring to fight, and Nixon, who was caught up in his own mindset, could not help but be a bit overwhelmed.

The awkward moment just now, although not long, but it is indeed for everyone to see the embarrassing side of Nixon.

“Ms. Foltseva, every country is different, culturally different, social systems are different, and just because of these few differences, you can’t necessarily make the other side accept your point of view.” Seeing this, British Foreign Secretary Macmillan spoke directly in solidarity with Nixon, practicing the significance of the special relationship between Britain and the United States.

This was also an important purpose for Britain to come to Moscow this time, fearing that the United States would be alone on the Soviet Union’s home turf.

At this time Macmillan does not know the seriousness of the matter, the same he is also an old-school politician, older than Nixon is quite a bit older, see the Americans suffered a loss immediately stated position.

Alan Wilson looked as if things were not simple, staring at Macmillan’s back, “Judging from the face, your path to prime minister is basically certain to be cut short.”

Each vote of the electorate was of equal value, and the male vote would not be used as two in one.

The full version of the remarks if leaked? Alan Wilson had even simulated in his head at this point whether the combination of Macmillan’s illegitimate daughter issue and today’s remarks would have unintended consequences.

“Nice.” Nixon, who was soundly supported by Macmillan, steadied his mind and opened another topic, “What Mr. Khrushchev just said seems to make sense, but it’s not really equality.”

“Not really equal.” Alan Wilson gave a wink, and a bunch of diplomats beside him began to pat themselves on the back.

Taking advantage of this, Foltseva went back behind the Soviet cadre and whispered behind Brezhnev, “The problem is not the Soviet Union and the United States, the whole world is more capable of dumbing down the Americans in terms of perspective.”

The high standard of living in the U.S. can only represent the U.S., not the whole world, and there are plenty of capitalist countries in general. Brezhnev nodded and quietly walked behind Khrushchev to whisper a hint.

Nixon is still trying to move back to the disadvantage, “free society, is about equality, people are born as long as there are hands and feet, can go to struggle, the government what right to the struggling people high taxes to relief lazy people? So Americans can struggle to get into the middle class, not rich and famous, but also very easy to live. In contrast, the people of the Soviet Union, no matter how much they struggled, still had to be forced by the state to distribute the products of life. This kind of one-sided egalitarianism is not true equality, but rather a forced distribution of fairness.”

“A one-sided evaluation of the Soviet Union or the United States is not the answer to this question. It is important to realize that both the United States and Europe are not fair compared to the standard of living in other regions. The entire economy of Eastern Europe over the centuries is not comparable to Western Europe, and I’m sure neither the US nor the UK would deny that this is true. Let’s pick a country with similar conditions, both built from the ashes, how about North and South Korea? I wonder who, in Mr. Nixon’s opinion, is better off in these two countries?”

“I think Mr. Nixon, would use the military government as a pretext to show that Korea is not part of the free world.”

Nixon was a little silent for a moment; it looked as if the day was far more problematic than he had previously discussed with the British Foreign Secretary and the Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office.

He didn’t realize that if he hadn’t discussed it too deeply with Macmillan and Allen Wilson, he wouldn’t have actually run into such a tricky situation today.

“Of course not, how can a military government be the free world.” Allen Wilson spoke directly, storming up and kicking South Korea out of the free world, the words turned and said, “In fact, comparing these third world countries can’t prove anything, isn’t Germany the best object of comparison, no need to compare what South Korea North Korea.”

North Korea’s standard of living in this era is far above that of South Korea, and this comparison is unfavorable to Britain and the United States.

Naturally Allen Wilson expelled Korea from Free World citizenship and pulled the comparison over the FRG and GDR.

“The FRG was a major industrial region of the former Germany, and was several times the size of the GDR in both population and area.” Foltseva spoke in fluent English, “On the contrary North and South Korea are at the same starting line in all indicators.”

“Argumentative, not quarrelsome.” Alan Wilson laughed unhurriedly, “It’s better to look at the show, honored lady, Vice President Nixon and the minister, not specifically to come to Moscow to quarrel, but with full goodwill to come here, we all understand that peace and development is the mainstream, the havoc of the two world wars has left mankind with a deep disaster and a heavy lesson, and the world’s peoples are in pursuit of peace very strongly; peaceful development has become the trend of the world, and the hearts of the people are in the right place.”

“Yes, we agree with the British side.” Nixon pressed down the mood of the gas upset unfolded a smile, “Instead of aggressively arguing who is more right and who is more wrong, let time prove everything. Wouldn’t it be better to talk about what each of our washing machines is good at than to talk about what each of our rockets is powerful at? Isn’t that the kind of contest you want?”

“Yes, that’s the kind of race we want, but your generals say they’re so powerful they can destroy us. We can show you something too, show you the spirit of the Soviet Union. We are strong and we can beat you. In this respect, we can show you something too.”

“Cheers to peace and the abolition of all military bases abroad,” Khrushchev raised his glass and looked around, followed by a round of applause.

Nixon didn’t raise his glass, “Let’s simply toast to peace.”

“To a long life for Comrade Khrushchev.” Brezhnev raised his glass in a toast, followed by Foltseva with other Soviet cadres.

Nixon finally raised his glass and said, “I’ll drink to that. As much as we disagree with your policies, we wish you good health. We wish you a long life.”

“That’s our wish, too.” Macmillan raised his glass, “To world peace and development.”

“To the peace and development of the world.” Alan Wilson followed the Foreign Secretary’s tone, and with that, the British diplomatic delegation raised their glasses, “For the peace and development of the world.”

Alcohol-addicted Alan Wilson wondered who had won. Nobody won in the history of the mind anyway, except that the Soviet Union lost earlier, the United States lost later, and the good life in America that Nixon spoke of has been replaced by the anti-intellectual red-necked, black-lifed, expensive, and one-tenth of the population are drug addicts America.

Is America still America when the Soviet Union is no longer the Soviet Union? The middle class in the United States of America, which Nixon was counting on to be held together by the middle class, is no longer the middle class that Nixon saw.