Atlas Obscura on that time the Soviet Union paid Pepsi not in money but ships: In return for cola, Pepsi received Stolichnaya vodka to distribute in the United States. By the late 1980s, Russians were drinking approximately a billion servings of Pepsi a year.
The USSR’s weird relationship with Pepsi
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