Soviet Pepsi Meme

In 1991 russians could buy the soda for 20 kopeks about 10 cents.

Soviet pepsi meme. 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. The ussr offered to pay pepsi with a fleet of diesel ships. Again the soviet union found a solution. Yes you read that right. The soviet union had long traded stolichnaya vodka in return for pepsi concentrate. The combined fleet was traded for three billion dollars worth of pepsi. An image tagged historical meme.

Pepsi was first introduced as brad s drink in new bern north carolina united states in 1893 by caleb bradham who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold it was renamed pepsi cola in 1898 after the greek word for digestion πέψις pronounced pepsis which the drink was purported to aid and cola after the kola nut the original recipe also included sugar and vanilla. But paying was an issue so moscow came up with a creative 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. How pepsi won the cola wars by jesse kornbluth. Pepsi was the first american consumer product to be manufactured and sold in the former soviet union. Peter dejong ap hide caption. Well let s take a closer look at the history behind the song itself.

Russia loves their pepsi. If you enjoyed this video about pepsi and want to learn even more we recommend reading the book the other guy blinked. But this time pepsi got 10 soviet ships. In the late 1980s the soviet union wanted to have pepsi on hand permanently. Ever notice how the anthem of the former ussr and communism in general has become quite a bit of a meme recently. Pepsi accepted the deal because they knew that it was the only way to continue to sell pepsi in the ussr. Pepsi had come to a three billion dollar agreement with the soviet union.

Why soviet russia.