Pepsi Bought the Soviet Navy: The True Story of the World’s 6th Largest Fleet

Описание: In 1989, Pepsi bought the Soviet navy in one of the strangest Cold War deals ever. For a brief moment, the soda company owned the world’s 6th largest fleet of submarines and warships.
The Day Pepsi Bought the Soviet Navy (World’s 6th Largest Fleet)
In the late 1980s, a soda company briefly owned more warships than most countries.

This documentary tells the unbelievable true story of how Pepsi—yes, the soft drink—ended up owning a fleet of 17 Soviet submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and several destroyers, making it, for a moment, the world’s 6th‑largest navy.

We go from:

The 1959 Nixon–Khrushchev “Kitchen Debate” and Pepsi’s first appearance in Moscow
The 1970s Pepsi–Stolichnaya vodka barter deal that bypassed hard‑currency shortages
The collapsing Soviet economy of the 1980s, desperate for Western brands but starved of dollars
The 1989 agreement that traded warships for Pepsi concentrate, turning Cold War hardware into scrap and profit
Along the way, we explore what this deal reveals about corporate power, barter trade, collapsing currencies and the strange end of the Cold War—and why today’s global brands can sometimes act like superpowers.

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