True Story

 

“The Soviet Union formally dissolved on December 26, 1991, but it was on January 31, 1990 that the Bolshevik dream died in all practicality. On that day, a McDonald's opened in Moscow.”

Nick Keppler, a mentalfloss,com article

A Moscow pipe factory worker  said he forked over four days’ wages for a Big Mac, cheeseburger, apple pie, and two milkshakes and added: “What is killing us is that the average worker does not know how to work and so does not want to. Our enthusiasm has disappeared. But here my meal turned out to be just a supplement to the sincere smiles of the workers.” Francis X. Clines, “Upheaval in the East; Moscow McDonald's Opens: Milkshakes and Human Kindness,” The New York Times, February 1, 1990

“I was drunk with a bunch of Russian officers before it was appropriate/allowed/authorized. Their comment was to the effect the next war would not be East v. West, it would be North v. South. Don’t get excited, they were talking about hemispheres and civilization v. Islam. Turns out they were teaching that, even in the 80’s.”

A US Army Captain, a veteran of the War on Iraq

“The Third World War will be the war against the Third World.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, #93 of  A Far Rockaway of the Heart

When in 1990 Russians sold

their Great Immortal Victory

over the Fascists from 1945

for a McDonald’s hamburger

and a sugar fix of Big Coke,

their leadership, but not only—

others too who still had

their Soviet oaths printed

clearly and proudly

in their state IDs

rushed to propose

that from now on

Russia and the USA

bound as a gang together

in ripping off and raping

the Third World weaklings

while as if forgetting

or not all—that the New

Third World was to be

and was Russia herself.