The following is an excerpt from the exchange in the Nixon-Khrushchev "Kitchen Debate" (Evaluating the Evidence 28.2) . In it, Khrushchev responds to Nixon's description of consumer goods in the United States: Khrushchev: "The Americans have created their own image of the Soviet man and think he is as you want him to be. But he is not as you think. You think the Russian people will be dumbfounded to see these things [household appliances and consumer electronics], but the fact is that newly built Russian houses have all this equipment right now. Moreover, all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the Soviet Union. You are entitled to housing. I was born in the Soviet Union. So I have a right to a house. In America, if you don't have a dollar-you have the right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you say that we are slaves of communism. . . ."
Khrushchev claimed that Russians
A) did not need consumer goods to be happy.
B) had even more consumer goods than Americans.
C) had all the same consumer goods as Americans.
D) would one day rule the world.
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