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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Pepsi briefly became the 6th largest military in the world
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How Pepsi briefly became the 6th largest military in the world (Original Post)
Clash City Rocker
Jul 2019
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Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)1. Time to honor the veterans of the Cola War
n/t
tblue37
(65,340 posts)2. K&R. nt
JI7
(89,248 posts)3. the whole thing is interesting. including coke getting in and the chains like pizza hut
and when McDonald opened those long ass lines. but the cost was really high for what people made at the time.
but we have to look at it from the perspective of people who lived in the Soviet union.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)4. I served with Dr. Pepper
What those Pepsi bastards did during the war really left me flat.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)5. I was shaken by the whole experience.
Always on the verge of exploding.
Brother Buzz
(36,422 posts)6. Russia loves their Pepsi
So did the Russians sneak in the Pepsi bottle into the Coca Cola machine in West Berlin just to goad C.R. MacNamara (James Cagney), top manager of the German Coca Cola branch in the movie, One, Two Three (1961)?