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31st January 1990: First McDonald’s opens in the USSR

  • 31st January 2019
  • Tagged as: Canada, Capitalism, Communism, Fast Food, Food, Glasnost, McDonalds, Moscow, Perestroika, Soviet Union, USSR

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

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