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On this day -1990 (McDonalds in USSR); January 31st
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Wednesday, January 31, 1990. : The first McDonalds restaurant in the Soviet Union is opened


McDonalds is the world's largest chain of fast-food restaurants. The company began in 1940 with a restaurant opened by the brothers Mac McDonald, but it was their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 that established the principles of the fast-food restaurant. However, the company today dates its "founding" to the opening of CEO Ray Kroc's first franchised restaurant, the company's ninth, in 1955.

On 31 January 1990, the Soviet Union's first McDonalds - and the world's biggest - opened in Moscow. Hundred of people queued to pay the equivalent of several days' wages for Big Macs, shakes, and french fries. The opening of the first McDonalds in the Soviet Union was seen as symbolic, in that a great symbol of international capitalism penetrated a nation that was once the leader of the Communist bloc.

The Soviet Union collapsed as we knew it in 1991 but McDonalds maintained its presence in Russia, later expanding to other former Soviet states. The first Moscow McDonalds was a joint venture between McDonalds Canada and the Soviet government.


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