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Or how bribes work every time, if you know, what the persons really wants. Or that it pays for big corp to rub with the ones in power. Or...
by sdoering 13y ago
Or how bribes work every time, if you know, what the persons really wants.
Or that it pays for big corp to rub with the ones in power.
Or...
- roel_v 13y ago"Or that it pays for big corp to rub with the ones in power." Yeah, because producing 50 cases of a special brew for one general in a totalitarian state is a well-known strategy to get rich...
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoCoca-cola could not care less if the General got the coke or not, if it made any money or not - what mattered was the US Army's support in creating a global manufacturing and distribution chain - and a ready made global consumer group in the form of GIs who would then glamourise the drink to the native populations
- sdoering 13y ago> Coca-cola could not care less if the General got the coke or not[...] Well from the OP: "A practical consequence of White Coke was circumvention of the red tape imposed by the Soviet occupation authorities. While cargo shipments transiting the Soviet occupation zone in Austria normally took weeks to clear with the authorities, Coca-Cola supplies passing through the zone on their way back and forth between the Lambach plant and the Vienna warehouse were never stopped." Would not say, that it didn't make sense economically to produce these 50 cases...
- arethuza 13y agoOr perhaps it was a simple way of saying thanks from Eisenhower to Zhukov - given Zhukov's key role in defeating the Nazis it seems like a pretty trivial thing to me. Eisenhower clearly had a lot of respect for Zhukov - as did a lot of military leaders in the West.