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More than 40 thousand running in the world today McDonald’s The so -called restaurant and can be found in almost every country in the world. But as stated All about historythere are a number of countries that have also denied the company in their territory. Alongside the dictatorial North Korea and Iran, this list has both the democratic Iceland and North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bolivia, Yemen, Bermuda Islands and Zimbabwe. The reasons why such decisions have been made are different – there are countries that are afraid of the introduction of American culture, and there are those who oppose that these eateries are mostly offered food.

For people living in Soviet times, Macdonalds seemed to have the same hard -to -reach dream as « firm » jeans or cocoa. Russian newspaper Izvestia tells you that in preparation for the 1980s Moscow Summer Olympics, a plan was discussed on a number of several McDonald’s Installation of eateries not only in the Olympic Village, but also at the Luzhnik Stadium. However, the communist party in power has rejected these ideas, believing that the symbol of capitalism in the capital of the USSR has no place. Hence the first McDonald’s The Soviet country opened its doors only on January 31, 1990, and the message became one of the main news in the Soviet Central Television broadcast Vremiawhich showed more than a kilometer -long row at the eatery door.

In Latvia so much fuss on December 15, 1994, when the work began to work McDonald’s The then Basteja (now Zigfried Anna Meierovica) was not very close to the Freedom Monument. Although interest was quite large and overcrowded in the first days, some of the residents had already been able to spend and taste its offer abroad, while others had visited local entrepreneurs’ eateries, where at the time, meatballs were already prepared. (One of them was in the premises of the central department store, where fried meat cakes were squeezed not between the sliced ​​buns, but to the waffle -like dough. Flakesunofficially, it was called a Kezburgery, because it was rumored that official owners were closely linked to the former Communist Party’s functional time, Ivars Kezber, who had been settled on the other side. But these are such rumors …