The first McDonald’s marked the embrace of capitalism in 1990 but the big brands have deserted in days
The irony was not lost on some of the Muscovites who were queueing outside a McDonald’s on Tuesday evening, just after the company announced it was temporarily closing its nearly 850 locations in Russia.
“My dad once told me how he waited in a long line when McDonald’s opened when he was young. And now I ended up also queueing, but for a very different reason. History can be funny,” said Dmitry Grigoryev.
