Soviet Pepsi Meme

The ussr offered to pay pepsi with a fleet of diesel ships.

Soviet pepsi meme. The combined fleet was traded for three billion dollars worth of pepsi. In the late 1980s the soviet union wanted to have pepsi on hand permanently. Again the soviet union found a solution. The historical exchange caused pepsi to become the 6th most powerful military in the world for a moment before they sold the fleet to a swedish company for scrap recycling.

The soviet union had long traded stolichnaya vodka in return for pepsi concentrate. Ever notice how the anthem of the former ussr and communism in general has become quite a bit of a meme recently. A soviet diesel submarine. How pepsi won the cola wars by jesse kornbluth.

In 1991 russians could buy the soda for 20 kopeks about 10 cents. Why soviet russia. When pepsi cola went on sale here nearly 15 years ago the first american consumer product to be sold widely in the soviet union pepsico faced an unusual marketing problem. Well let s take a closer look at the history behind the song itself.

Peter dejong ap hide caption. Pepsi accepted the deal because they knew that it was the only way to continue to sell pepsi in the ussr. But paying was an issue so moscow came up with a creative solution. If in the 1970s they had plenty of vodka now in the 1980s they had plenty of military equipment inherited from the cold war.

Yes you read that right. Pepsi in 1989 having a soviet military. Pepsi had come to a three billion dollar agreement with the soviet union. Pepsi was the first american consumer product to be manufactured and sold in the former soviet union.

An image tagged historical meme. Russia loves their pepsi.