20-25 years ago, a friend somehow got on the list of *hosts* for some delegation or other of Soviets. I don’t recall the entire scenario.
We are in a very rural area of small villages and farms. In the course of a tour, they visited the local supermarket, a small, sole-proprietorship at the time, nothing like a big supermarket in a large city. The soviets were impressed, but skeptical. They assumed it was Potemkin. So, our friend handed them a map and told them to pick anywhere at all. They did and he drove them to a succession of stores.
As I recall the tale, they were very quiet after that.
I remember reading about the cosmonauts who got to visit NASA in Houston and how they were very impressed with what they were shown out in everyday America. They couldn’t believe how many nice houses there were among other things.