A Soviet militiaman eats a McDonald's hamburger in Moscow: Alán Carrasco
While Berlin Wall was falling or Nicolae Ceaușescu was being condemned to death in Târgoviște, years of planning were ending in Moscow, supply factories being constructed and new McDonald's workers trained.
In 1976, during Montreal Olympic Games, McDonald's Canadian franchise chairman George A. Cohon and Soviet Union Government representatives had a discreet meeting in order to come to a business agreement which was not possible until 10 years later.
After Mikhail Gorbachev came to the Party’s general secretariat, and then the Presidency, the opening project for the first McDonald's in soviet territory was reactivated. Thus, while Berlin Wall was falling or Nicolae Ceaușescu was being condemned to death in Târgoviște, years of planning were ending in Moscow, supply factories being constructed and new McDonald's workers trained.
