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[email protected]. 4.1. Socialism on Display: The Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Pavilions at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair Kimberly Elman Zarecor | Vladimir Kulić The 1958 Universal and International Exposition in Brussels—or EXPO ’58, as it became commonly known—was the first “world’s fair” in almost twenty years. It was envisioned as a showcase of cooperation between nations and a record of humanity’s social progress and technological innovation in the years since the immense destruction of World War II. Yet despite great optimism, EXPO ‘58’s lofty goals were diminished by politics. In a scene similar to 1937, when the pavilions of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany faced off across the concourse at the Trocadéro in Paris, the large pavilions of the United States and the Soviet Union dominated the central plaza on the fairgrounds in Brussels, reflecting a new global Cold War paradigm.