Soviet customers stand in line outside the just opened first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union on January 31, 1990 at Moscow’s Pushkin Square. AFP PHOTO VITALY ARMAND (Photo by VITALY ARMAND / AFP) (Photo by VITALY ARMAND/AFP via Getty Images)
A view of a closed McDonald’s restaurant at a shopping mall in Moscow on March 16, 2022. – On February 24, Putin ordered Russian troops to pour into pro-Western Ukraine, triggering unprecedented Western sanctions against Moscow and sparking an exodus of foreign corporations including H&M, McDonald’s and Ikea. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)