McDonald's Moscow 1989

[lord ched]

This is the way the world ends....

The maple leaves, by the way, indicate that it was the Canadian subsidiary that got the first franchise. You heard it here first.

[jimmyj]

That's wicked. The cold war was thawing out and the commies needed their burgs. And since Canada's relations with the USSR were a lot less strained, they got their foot in the door first?

There's a neat little history lesson in that shirt, I just learned 1000 X's more about the cold war in the last 10 mins than I did in high school.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-29/ ... ity-soviet