one of the duller parts of Russian history

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When the Soviet Union was becoming more open to the west in its last six years in existence (1985-1991), it let something extraordinary happened, in 1990 the communist party allowed the opening of a McDonalds right in Moscow!

It was the first fast food restaurant ever to appear in Russia, and one of the biggest (located only a few blocks from the Kremlin), Russians from all around came to see this (at the time) extraordinary thing, the first fast food restaurant ever introduced to their side of the world, a true pearl in western society.

This Time Magazine Article shows the commotion of the time how it was getting jobs for the people and how people could earn their own money (the start of capitalism in Russia), that is true on one sense, it created a few jobs for waiters and managers and probably about twice as many jobs for wannabe heart surgeons.

It is a horrible thing to be put on the Russian people or any people in their own culture and environment, there is nothing wrong with most fast food restaurants but with McDonald's you're paying to be slowly poisoned!