The first McDonald’s in the USSR opened in 1990

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On the 31st January 1990, fast food chain McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in the Soviet Union on Moscow’s Pushkin Square.

Russia, Cold War, USSR, Communism, Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika, Iron Curtain, Capitalism

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