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At one time Pepsi actually owned several USSR military vessels https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the-6th-largest-military-in-the-world-2
by cesis 5y ago
At one time Pepsi actually owned several USSR military vessels
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the-6th-largest-military-in-the-world-2018-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the...
- generj 5y agoYou have to wonder what the executives thought of this! Sounds like an interesting documentary ready to happen.
- dylan604 5y ago>You have to wonder what the executives thought of this! Based on the time period, in the words of Rick James, "cocaine is a helluva drug." If that was the actual reason, it makes total sense. If that's not the reason, then what the actual f were they doing?
- monocasa 5y agoThere wasn't a usable forex market for ruble to USD. At that point you drop down to essentially bartering.
- sandworm101 5y agoThere weren't many products in the Soviet Union that could be sold in the west. They needed a commodity that was to western standards. Soviet steel had full scrap value in the west and the ships were mobile. Pepsi also traded for tomato paste.
- saalweachter 5y agoBribing someone?
- sandworm101 5y agoThey were sold for scrap. They were less military vessels than large floating objects worth their weight in steel.