The American National Exhibition staged in Moscow's Sokolniki Park in 1959 offered Soviets a glimpse of American life. Designed to tempt Soviet citizens with the consumer delights of capitalism, the exhibition—a "soft" front in the Cold War—included a "typical" American home, complete with a full-sized modern kitchen, stocked with gleaming pots and pans and modern appliances. Over its six-week run, some 2.7 million Soviet citizens visited the exhibition. Although some visitors came away impressed, others expressed confidence in their own system. Their comments echoed Khrushchev's pledge that in the near future, the Soviet Union would catch up with and overtake the West and attain a communist state of plenty. "You have achieved this in 150 years. We shall achieve it without fail in 50, this means our Soviet way of life is better," wrote a visitor in the exhibition's guestbook.