“In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.”
Greatness ensued
kill me.
The pizza hut era:
- Life expectancy decreases by 10 years. 2. 7.7 million excess deaths in the first year. 2
- 40% of population drops into poverty.
- GDP instantly halves.
- One in ten children now live on the streets. Infant mortality increases. Was 29.3 in 2003 which is around (current) Syria and Micronesia, 7.9 in 2013. Infant mortality in USSR was 1.92, literally the lowest in the world.
- 1996 election rigged by the US, Yeltsin sends in tanks to disperse the supreme soviet.
At least 5% of the population died off according to a recent book during the 1990s.
Largest “peacetime” loss of life of the modern era at that point
I died inside watching those poor actors say, “Hail Gorbachev”
The commercial didn’t even air in Russia lol.
Whoa really? Where did it air, if at all?
United States and only the United States.
🙄
“You can shove that pizza up your ass, Gorby. At least then the grease will make it easier for the West to fuck you”
Ahahahahhaa!
Pizza Hut and Coca Cola: the two things that make even the most horrific capitalist countries actually amazing.
Okay, this made me laugh, even if it is wrong.
The sad part is how much this belief really appears (implicitly) in so much of the neoliberal ideology
True!
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