McDonald's opens in hungry Moscow, but costs half-a-day's wages for lunch, 1990

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  • @MrCookieCat
    @MrCookieCat 4 роки тому +58775

    "I don't know what I just ate, but it was delicious."
    Yup, thats McDonalds

    • @latinolawdog5067
      @latinolawdog5067 4 роки тому +1018

      Hahah. Thought the same
      Thing. That’s McDOnald’s perfectly described

    • @frank4284
      @frank4284 3 роки тому +528

      I say the same thing every year when McRib is back

    • @edwardfights4900
      @edwardfights4900 3 роки тому +589

      McDonald's sucks

    • @jj_wijaya6324
      @jj_wijaya6324 3 роки тому +273

      @@edwardfights4900 booooo
      edit: 1st time i have these amount of likes

    • @Randy_Butternubs
      @Randy_Butternubs 3 роки тому +24

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @cesarsales22
    @cesarsales22 3 роки тому +17585

    "I spilled my milkshake and they gave me another one"
    Now that, folks, is what changes everything

    • @Niggetfighter7373
      @Niggetfighter7373 3 роки тому +1276

      They would never give you another milk shake in the USA only in Russia

    • @Enderboy4030
      @Enderboy4030 3 роки тому +875

      *Communism intensifies*

    • @cesarsales22
      @cesarsales22 3 роки тому +332

      @@Enderboy4030 *sighs in Russian*

    • @cesarsales22
      @cesarsales22 3 роки тому +54

      @Daily Dose Of Stupitity ahahahahahahahahahhahahaha dude

    • @kvngn
      @kvngn 3 роки тому +449

      The real shocker is that the milkshake machine was working in the first place.

  • @lmaoqasim
    @lmaoqasim 3 роки тому +6558

    "It's very very beautiful but I expected more"
    Me too kid.

  • @ElBombastico883
    @ElBombastico883 2 роки тому +6763

    "I spelled my milkshake and thought they would throw me out!"
    Damn, Soviet restaurant etiquette was BRUTAL...

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc 2 роки тому +687

      In Soviet Union, milkshake spill you!

    • @DOI_ARTS
      @DOI_ARTS 2 роки тому +438

      Comrade that spilled milkshake could feed 5 people

    • @nananooknak
      @nananooknak 2 роки тому +64

      I thought he said "call me out" like you trying to get a refill lmao. Dang tough times.

    • @mg7651
      @mg7651 2 роки тому +36

      Bawl me out*

    • @redpill7238
      @redpill7238 2 роки тому +6

      He was lucky they didnt kill him, he thought

  • @Xcieg
    @Xcieg 3 роки тому +8437

    30 years later and we still don't know what we're eating.

    • @thatdawg2021
      @thatdawg2021 3 роки тому +76

      true, but one things for sure it taste good.

    • @Xcieg
      @Xcieg 3 роки тому +147

      @@leomessenger2893 ahh yes, because I know exactly what ingredients they are when they say colors, emulsifiers, and preservatives.

    • @Xcieg
      @Xcieg 3 роки тому +8

      @@thatdawg2021 oh for sure. I do enjoy some McDonald's.

    • @whiskeypenguin1878
      @whiskeypenguin1878 3 роки тому +36

      @@Xcieg They probably use 4-5% plastic and aluminum in many of the ingredients. This saves them billions a year imagine what the other 95% is? Profits mean everything.

    • @patrickbarks997
      @patrickbarks997 3 роки тому +57

      This type of comment was nice and edgy back in 2000, but McDonalds are very clear now as to what is in their products. There are numerous videos on UA-cam showing how nuggets and burger patties are made. I can 100% eat McDonalds knowing what is in it now. They're very transparent.

  • @greencornucopia3298
    @greencornucopia3298 3 роки тому +15002

    If McDonald’s can dissolve the Soviet Union, imagine what it can do your body.

    • @Jolly123123123
      @Jolly123123123 3 роки тому +273

      omg

    • @hidinginyourcloset
      @hidinginyourcloset 3 роки тому +54

      @IBan_Bad_Girls
      How about no

    • @olucatto
      @olucatto 3 роки тому +308

      facts, people dont even know what they're eating lmao

    • @Chunkyjalapeno
      @Chunkyjalapeno 3 роки тому +115

      @American Born you can pass the 100 mark with healthy eating and exercise.

    • @Chunkyjalapeno
      @Chunkyjalapeno 3 роки тому +25

      @American Born That's a century

  • @EBWALL8
    @EBWALL8 3 роки тому +17543

    So we're going to ignore the fact the McDonald's successfully invaded Russia in winter?
    Edit: my comment has lore because of y'all. Thank you all for having my back ❤️

    • @knkjkjn
      @knkjkjn 3 роки тому +155

      Invaded? How? It's not like they had monopoly over Russian's food market nor anywhere close to that. Most ppl in Russia aren't fast food crazed and those insane lines only lasted for few days ,maybe weeks ,until the hype settled down. Invaded would be if Russians wouldn't have anything else to eat but McD, which ,despite the carefully selected narrative in this article was not the case. Most Russians didn't go through the transitional era bcs of McD who "saved them" Especially not with meals that cost half of avg, daily salary.

    • @EBWALL8
      @EBWALL8 3 роки тому +2137

      @@knkjkjn it is a joke.

    • @mr.s9783
      @mr.s9783 3 роки тому +685

      *Adolf Hitler wants to know your location*

    • @EBWALL8
      @EBWALL8 3 роки тому +894

      @dr4kz0r it was a joke

    • @Gillyboi
      @Gillyboi 3 роки тому +719

      @dr4kz0r it wasn’t like he was making some big historical statement LMAO it was just a joke

  • @karelianmghow9095
    @karelianmghow9095 2 роки тому +2837

    And now McDonald's closes in Moscow. We've come full circle.

    • @stanleywhiteman6450
      @stanleywhiteman6450 2 роки тому +73

      "Свято место" пусто не бывает..

    • @dutchvanderlinde4969
      @dutchvanderlinde4969 2 роки тому +2

      soon it will turn into nuclear shelter if Adolf Putin continues to threaten Ukraine & NATO countries

    • @ilovemuslimfood666
      @ilovemuslimfood666 2 роки тому +50

      @@stanleywhiteman6450 What he said.

    • @ADAPTATION7
      @ADAPTATION7 2 роки тому

      @@ilovemuslimfood666 He said: Your mother is fat.

    • @popcorn8153
      @popcorn8153 2 роки тому

      @Холст Масло enjoy being the north korea of Europe !

  • @Murrel.
    @Murrel. 3 роки тому +21080

    Russian man: I got the big mac
    Reporter: What did it cost?
    Russian man: *Everything*

  • @nikos8247
    @nikos8247 3 роки тому +11665

    I remember McDonalds first opened in Cyprus in 1994, I was eleven back then... The restaurant was a bit far from my house, about 25 minutes walk, but I went with a friend on foot to try! I remember the employees weren't speaking Greek at all and we didn't know what to order! 🙂 When she asked me what I wanted to order, I told her that we would like to have two McDonalds! 🙂 She smiled and finally, she gave us two Big Macs!

    • @yaphi999
      @yaphi999 3 роки тому +514

      Lol it’s funny 😆

    • @tinarosehall3804
      @tinarosehall3804 3 роки тому +942

      Aww that so cute

    • @johnm84
      @johnm84 3 роки тому +140

      LOL!😂🤣

    • @Agent1W
      @Agent1W 3 роки тому +231

      I'm surprised they weren't insulted if they really wanted the true McDonald's sandwich: a "Royale with Cheese". I would have said Quarter Pounder but I remembered it's the metric system.

    • @y.t.1320
      @y.t.1320 3 роки тому +58

      Why they didnt fire local people as employees?

  • @edwardiiiofengland9337
    @edwardiiiofengland9337 3 роки тому +8209

    “Shook hands with both Ronalds, Reagan and Mcdonald!”

    • @umberto4134
      @umberto4134 3 роки тому +716

      No doubt, if your name end with "in", time to get out!

    • @Josher-fx1tc
      @Josher-fx1tc 3 роки тому +478

      Tore down that wall like the kool aid man oh yeah

    • @haleloop963cortex4
      @haleloop963cortex4 3 роки тому +397

      @@Josher-fx1tc you two need yoga (da) you need a shower (da) and you all need to learn how to handle real power

    • @darnit1944
      @darnit1944 3 роки тому +395

      Did somebody say... real power??

    • @chickensheet6582
      @chickensheet6582 3 роки тому +359

      daaaaaaaaa you want to mess with me? I spit hot borscht when I'm crushing these beats.

  • @SirHellNaja
    @SirHellNaja 2 роки тому +2301

    1990: i'm lovin' it
    2022: i'm leavin' it
    I mean, McDonald's is leaving Russia, not the other way around

    • @EddyOver9000
      @EddyOver9000 2 роки тому +29

      💀

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 2 роки тому +1

      Turning back into a communist Soviet Russia. :(

    • @thunderlord3747
      @thunderlord3747 2 роки тому +27

      до свидания
      Fades into the underworld

    • @a_r_t1217
      @a_r_t1217 2 роки тому

      McDonald's will remain in Russia, only the business will be transferred to a Russian businessman, and the company itself will change its name and logo

    • @Olegchert
      @Olegchert 2 роки тому +4

      снова вернулся)

  • @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1
    @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 3 роки тому +7271

    This is actually an important historic archive

    • @krepler
      @krepler 3 роки тому +41

      I thought the same exact thing. Long Live Russia.

    • @nerd2544
      @nerd2544 3 роки тому +22

      @@thewiseguy3529 what's going on

    • @notlucas6859
      @notlucas6859 3 роки тому +9

      @@thewiseguy3529 No, You are insane.

    • @parkerpro3583
      @parkerpro3583 3 роки тому +17

      @@thewiseguy3529 I don’t know what America you live in but definitely not mine

    • @thewiseguy3529
      @thewiseguy3529 3 роки тому

      @@parkerpro3583 buckle up buddy! You'll find out soon enough. Hopefully you have a bunker 25 feet underground filled with food and housing amenities.

  • @ComdrStew
    @ComdrStew 3 роки тому +13022

    Employees: Smiles at customers.
    Russians: What the hell are they doing with their mouths.

  • @myfavoritepointguard446
    @myfavoritepointguard446 4 роки тому +13842

    America: I'm lovin' it
    Ussr: *We're lovin' it.*

    • @leelaravindran4910
      @leelaravindran4910 4 роки тому +253

      No, I'm Lenin' it

    • @harverc229
      @harverc229 3 роки тому +112

      More like I’m Putin it.

    • @memes_haram
      @memes_haram 3 роки тому +82

      OurDonald’s

    • @yoshisilver2386
      @yoshisilver2386 3 роки тому +60

      i'm stalin it

    • @fgjjdgb3949
      @fgjjdgb3949 3 роки тому +16

      America: Ugh, damn it, we've explained it to you a hundred times! No "we", "together", "common", "comrade", "united", "union", "us", even "friendship" you are now forbidden and contraindicated by doctors, now you are free from each other! Oh, these Russians with their natural desire for the collective will drive me to hysteria!

  • @laurynasg.8889
    @laurynasg.8889 2 роки тому +521

    I am from Lithuania (ex USSR, now EU) and one of the funniest my childhood memories is related to McDonalds, lol :D First McDonalds opened here in 1996, I was 11 years old. We took a class trip to Vilnius (our capital) with school bus, and the main goal was McDonalds! Nowadays it's unbelievable, but in 90's mindset in post-communist Europe was absolutelly different. Yes, we took about 100 km trip from our hometown, to eat burgers! Of course, we visitet also old town, Gediminas castle, some churches and TV tower, but McDonalds was the main and most important thing of this class journey. We were so proud, because we eat American food, lol!!! :D We even took empty packages and free balloons from restaurant, to show them to our friends and to make them feel jealious :D Oh yeah, interesting times. When English was "exotic language of rich people in the West" and when people SERIOUSLY thougt 2 Unlimited and Masterboy are "American groups" :D No, we weren't hungry, we always had home cooked food. McDonalds actually was something like "WOW, it's food from USA, rich Western people eat it, it's almost from another world!!!!!1!" Nowadays, McDonalds is just a fast food restaurant here, nothing more and nothing less. Actually, nowadays in Lithuania Hesburger is more popular (it's Finnish restaurant chain, I prefer their food) and also, the most popular fast food in Lithuania is kebab. And of course, nobody screams "wow it's American" anymore :D Because now we have a lot of shops, supermarkets, restaurants, it's not interesting anymore. We travel abroad, everybody can have vacation in Turkey or Spain (it was luxury 25 years ago, only for richest), big superstars have concerts here, we have internet in our pockets... Everything changed, absolutely everything.

    • @yabuki2502
      @yabuki2502 2 роки тому +46

      so sad your country had to be part of the soviet union

    • @jnwiesmann6787
      @jnwiesmann6787 9 місяців тому +34

      All the Baltics improved a lot from the EU and I think that's great. Visited all 3 nations in 2020, very beautiful countries I can totally recommend to visit. Glad to have you in the EU.

    • @englishmaninrussia
      @englishmaninrussia 9 місяців тому +10

      I moved to Russia from England and have a better quality of life which I try to show in my videos.

    • @gpman6937
      @gpman6937 9 місяців тому +1

      @@englishmaninrussiaI am considering moving to st petersburg for the same reason, I am australian ❤

    • @wind2536
      @wind2536 8 місяців тому +3

      Or c occupation was the worst thing for Europe

  • @SuperCalbo
    @SuperCalbo 3 роки тому +9994

    “This women doesn’t know what she just ate, but she said it was unusual and delicious” 😂😂😂

    • @ThornsOfOurTime
      @ThornsOfOurTime 3 роки тому +822

      but thats not what she actually said in russian, she was like "maybe its cuz im hungry, because our stores are practically empty " basicaly everything tastes pretty good when you're starving

    • @MarioRodriguez-gr8wc
      @MarioRodriguez-gr8wc 3 роки тому +127

      @@ThornsOfOurTime I don’t know if it’s because when I was a child my buds weren’t developed, but McDonald’s used to taste so good. I’m 37 now.

    • @ThornsOfOurTime
      @ThornsOfOurTime 3 роки тому +92

      @@MarioRodriguez-gr8wc Im going to have to agree, first time I've tried it in 1998 and it tasted amazing, and so did many other burgers, now its actually so hard to find a good tasting burger in NYC

    • @mibz1117
      @mibz1117 3 роки тому +37

      @@ThornsOfOurTime yup I confirm beans and cheese is like caviar when you're poor and starving

    • @SmilesObrien
      @SmilesObrien 3 роки тому +4

      Me when I go to taco bell.
      Awesome pfp BTW :)

  • @defyboom1153
    @defyboom1153 4 роки тому +9111

    In Russia if you smile people thinks you’re laughing at them

    • @MarcinKralka
      @MarcinKralka 4 роки тому +516

      Same in other slavic countries.

    • @Jasmian
      @Jasmian 4 роки тому +61

      @@MarcinKralka not in mine

    • @danibenitez3392
      @danibenitez3392 4 роки тому +31

      @@Jasmian hmm where do you live?

    • @Jasmian
      @Jasmian 4 роки тому +110

      @@danibenitez3392 Slovenia

    • @GreenWhiteRevolution
      @GreenWhiteRevolution 4 роки тому +623

      Socialism and Communism don't make you happy. There is no laughing.

  • @rubenjorge13
    @rubenjorge13 3 роки тому +8271

    The most Russian man in the restaurant:
    "I Don't like it, it's not Russian"
    simply amazing 😂

    • @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121
      @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 3 роки тому +455

      @Stabswache he probably wanted to try by curiosity

    • @radziwill7193
      @radziwill7193 3 роки тому +275

      It's a wrong translation. He said "I didn't like it, and maybe ..." (а мне не понравилось, а может быть э).

    • @vipprin9857
      @vipprin9857 3 роки тому +11

      Lmao

    • @cringyhuman3210
      @cringyhuman3210 3 роки тому +118

      @@radziwill7193 bruh lol seeing so many arguments about this and it actually is just a wrong translation

    • @shane5385
      @shane5385 3 роки тому +22

      Well it definitely isn't great or anything, if he explained that poor people in America eat it then it might of made more sense to him.

  • @Commodore1702
    @Commodore1702 2 роки тому +1255

    And to think, today people are lining up like this for their last taste before McDonald's pulls out of Russia.

    • @alexandrualex1085
      @alexandrualex1085 2 роки тому +38

      Every begining had an end

    • @HolographicCathawk
      @HolographicCathawk 2 роки тому +72

      It's so sad. They clearly still want to experience Western things. It would be amazing if McDonald's closing was the straw to break the camel's back and get Russians to decide for themselves that war is a terrible idea that they won't comply with.

    • @diegof8853
      @diegof8853 2 роки тому +5

      ​@@alexandrualex1085 that shouldn't happened

    • @luxusken05
      @luxusken05 2 роки тому +4

      It signalled Russia opening to the world and now it's signalling the opposite.

    • @devinmcgroot7560
      @devinmcgroot7560 2 роки тому +79

      Not true. They have the factory, the recipes, and the restraunt. It will not close, it will simply reopen under a new name, but the food will be almost identical. What can Mcdonalds do about it? Sue them? In what court?

  • @bawoman
    @bawoman 3 роки тому +3962

    "This woman doesn't know what she just ate"
    Seems like a regular McDonald's experience to me.

    • @munk3064
      @munk3064 3 роки тому +62

      you don't even know half the things you eat

    • @PatrickReuploaded
      @PatrickReuploaded 3 роки тому +11

      It's the soviet union, that's why! 😠

    • @kajwbidonajdowlem5013
      @kajwbidonajdowlem5013 3 роки тому +25

      @@munk3064 is that how it is in america? damn

    • @zulkiflidin3700
      @zulkiflidin3700 3 роки тому +21

      We know the name
      Not the indgredient

    • @wujek7616
      @wujek7616 2 роки тому +10

      @@PatrickReuploaded No, it's the United States of A

  • @elonmusk6654
    @elonmusk6654 3 роки тому +5967

    This footage is way more interesting than we realize. This is a live culture absorption by another culture. Rarely got on camera. I loved the part where one employee is telling how people were confused because they were smiling according to the protocols so they can come across as nice and serving and the people thought they were laughing at them.

    • @fouronetwo813
      @fouronetwo813 3 роки тому +252

      When we going to Mars bro?

    • @Q__tube
      @Q__tube 3 роки тому +476

      Yea in Russia people are a lot more stoic. Its even weird to ask someone “hows it going” passively because they will think you are actually asking them how there life is going

    • @frgwyn3760
      @frgwyn3760 3 роки тому +24

      Just like when u visit Mars

    • @4d17y4h
      @4d17y4h 3 роки тому +8

      Just like chiraq cracking and hacking car pieces to be hit by reticent parts dealers sitting on surplus with your own produce struckbud 😁

    • @Hello8qwe
      @Hello8qwe 3 роки тому +10

      Tesla to the Moon!

  • @RLF1949
    @RLF1949 3 роки тому +7047

    "Finally we get those Big Mc"
    "What does it cost"
    "Everything"
    *Soviet flag goes down

    • @jimhalpert2889
      @jimhalpert2889 3 роки тому +114

      *a big slanted yellow M takes its place*

    • @cptTK421
      @cptTK421 3 роки тому +34

      One Golden sigil on a red Field, exchanged for another

    • @EternalResonance
      @EternalResonance 3 роки тому +10

      how do you like it? this does not taste like misery and tears. yuck

    • @HelloThere.....
      @HelloThere..... 3 роки тому +3

      Yo that's crazy because actually the Soviet Union did turn into the Russian independent state after this.

    • @RLF1949
      @RLF1949 3 роки тому

      @@HelloThere..... blyat. Imagine a Russian saw you joke.

  • @aryanverma8344
    @aryanverma8344 2 роки тому +495

    no matter what you think about Mc Donald's now you gotta admit when we all were kids this was the greatest thing ever especially when your mom buys you a happy meal

    • @1MicroCPU
      @1MicroCPU Рік тому +25

      My family was too poor to buy a happy meal but small cheese burger and nuggets with a shared drink and the playground was all we needed

    • @goldman77700
      @goldman77700 Рік тому +7

      Parents never bought us happy meals, just cheese burgers and fries. We never cared about the toys, so it worked out in the end.

    • @justinr9784
      @justinr9784 9 місяців тому +2

      Well you get so used to something that you don't remember what it was like the first time. This was exotic food for these people.

    • @vivvpprof
      @vivvpprof 8 місяців тому +3

      My parents were helathy food freaks so I ate at McD's at 25 for the first time 🤷‍♂

    • @lichtsoldat7697
      @lichtsoldat7697 4 місяці тому

      Absolutely! It was a big treat when I was a kid in the 70's. Loved it!

  • @eadghe
    @eadghe 3 роки тому +13219

    You could change the title to, _"USA launches chemical attack on Moscow 1990"_ .

    • @kirschitz64
      @kirschitz64 3 роки тому +769

      I'd classify this as more of a biological attack, but 10/10 comment anyways

    • @protonmaximum6193
      @protonmaximum6193 3 роки тому +398

      Capitalist heart disease attack moment

    • @wastedshores8635
      @wastedshores8635 3 роки тому +28

      seriously.

    • @gauravagrawal4564
      @gauravagrawal4564 3 роки тому +109

      Don’t eat. Who’s asking you to?

    • @ShadowReaper-pu2hx
      @ShadowReaper-pu2hx 3 роки тому +72

      I’ve never seen people so enthusiastic about getting attacked.

  • @adultsoul4735
    @adultsoul4735 3 роки тому +5144

    I am from Slovakia and I remember when I was a kid like 15 years ago they opened a first mcdonalds in my country. It was so expensive back then it is ironic now that back in the day it was cheaper to go have a whole lunch in a restaurant than to order a couple of burgers in mcdonalds so my parents took me there only for special ocasions like end of the school year when I passed with the good grades lol.

    • @MustacheDLuffy
      @MustacheDLuffy 3 роки тому +386

      It’s funny because the whole point of fast foods is that it’s supposed to be cheaper than restaurants. Hamburgers I swear are like $2 in McDonald’s here

    • @masternoble
      @masternoble 3 роки тому +81

      @@new-lviv As an American, we definitely understand that McDonalds is a 2 star place. And 2 stars is 2 stars too many for most of us.

    • @rombr820
      @rombr820 3 роки тому +70

      On Brazil you can lunch twice with the price of one Big Mac.

    • @ivantrofymenko1308
      @ivantrofymenko1308 3 роки тому +40

      This is how I remember it as well when McDs first came to my city in Ukraine ~20 yrs ago. It was a huge deal for us kids and we'd beg our parents to take us there on our birthdays

    • @Andwejfin1
      @Andwejfin1 3 роки тому +16

      First restaurant in slovakia was opened in 1995 :)

  • @PaulV.
    @PaulV. 3 роки тому +4963

    I was born in the Soviet Union and remember visiting with my parents that first Soviet McDonalds right after it was opened. The line was huge probably more than an hour just to enter the restaurant. But that wasnt because people were hungry. Most were standing just to get "the taste of American life" so it was kind of like a small Disneyland and not just a place to eat.

    • @alekaban89
      @alekaban89 3 роки тому +272

      Вы правы. Был всего лишь интерес. Помню бегали посмотреть, что это такое. А поесть я тогда и дома нормально мог.

    • @жительСпб-в4м
      @жительСпб-в4м 3 роки тому +133

      @@alekaban89 ахах я помню как в моем городе появился первый эскалатор в ТЦ, как мы пиздюками бегали после школы на нём покататься))

    • @Lucas-dm1ix
      @Lucas-dm1ix 3 роки тому +54

      How was living in Ussr?

    • @PaulV.
      @PaulV. 3 роки тому +500

      @@Lucas-dm1ix Much better than most people in the West thought. Until everything went downhill in the last couple of years the life was pretty care free and relaxed. State services were covering almost everything so people really needed money only for food, clothes, some home appliances and entertainment. Without that money obsession like in the modern world human relationships were much more warm and friendly. The cons were problems to achieve something above average for those who had a talent to do so and a really small choice of consumer goods and services.

    • @lovedove2661
      @lovedove2661 3 роки тому +49

      hahaha thanks for sharing made me smile and happy that they were all eager to try. the things we take for granted out here in america.

  • @Tantibus9
    @Tantibus9 8 місяців тому +45

    Half a day's wages for one meal? Some things never change

  • @yuseisatouissuffering
    @yuseisatouissuffering 3 роки тому +4382

    "I don't like it at all, it's not russian"
    Probably one of the most russian thing a Russian can said

    • @unterhau1102
      @unterhau1102 3 роки тому +38

      That's not what he said

    • @kolmaja
      @kolmaja 3 роки тому +9

      @@unterhau1102 what did he say?

    • @danielmaster8776
      @danielmaster8776 3 роки тому +10

      @@unterhau1102 Was it some bogus translation then?

    • @unterhau1102
      @unterhau1102 3 роки тому +87

      @@danielmaster8776 most likely. He didn't really get to finish the sentence because it was cut off

    • @ЕгорКарасик-ь5у
      @ЕгорКарасик-ь5у 3 роки тому +62

      @@unterhau1102 He said something along the lines of:
      "А мне не понравилось **narrator starts speaking** Оно же ведь не..."
      "But I didn't enjoy it. **narrator starts speaking** It's after all not even..."
      Still have no idea what that must mean, but still. The other translations are pretty straightforward and mostly correct.

  • @marty_debiru
    @marty_debiru 3 роки тому +2793

    Props to the russian kid making an effort to speak in english.

    • @stefanwalicord2512
      @stefanwalicord2512 3 роки тому +212

      I like how he used the word "beautiful."

    • @karelappelde3e750
      @karelappelde3e750 3 роки тому +43

      Not in the soviet🤣

    • @gergovagyok4191
      @gergovagyok4191 3 роки тому +134

      They learn English so you don’t have to learn another language. +1 to all other language speakers.

    • @jacob.overtime
      @jacob.overtime 3 роки тому +57

      @Dababy Jesus My Russian friends always tell me this. Apparently it’s much easier to learn English than Russian.

    • @gergovagyok4191
      @gergovagyok4191 3 роки тому +1

      @Dababy Jesus How sad

  • @captainwonderbar1657
    @captainwonderbar1657 3 роки тому +3201

    Meat, bread, potatoes and milk of the highest quality. None of these things have ever been inside a McDonald's.

  • @west_ldn_xxx5549
    @west_ldn_xxx5549 2 роки тому +331

    A rare video from 2055 shows McDonald's reopening its first restaurant in Moscov after a special economic action from the west in 2022.

    • @a_r_t1217
      @a_r_t1217 2 роки тому

      McDonald's will remain in Russia, only the business will be transferred to a Russian businessman, and the company itself will change its name and logo

    • @west_ldn_xxx5549
      @west_ldn_xxx5549 2 роки тому +2

      @@a_r_t1217 Good luck

    • @robben896
      @robben896 Рік тому +2

      🤣🤣

    • @Konchunas
      @Konchunas 9 місяців тому +3

      This is going to happen, but it will be a different Moscow.

    • @msimamsima9059
      @msimamsima9059 3 місяці тому

      2155 maybe

  • @fw_seahawks8622
    @fw_seahawks8622 3 роки тому +5933

    “I thought they were gonna throw me out after I spilled my milkshake, but they just gave me another one”
    Me:🥺

    • @joecool4656
      @joecool4656 3 роки тому +244

      I bet the kid remembered that for a long time. He had it hard

    • @Kuralai95
      @Kuralai95 3 роки тому +494

      @@BloodInTheStrawberries unfortunately that’s how a lot of kids were raised in Soviet Union. If you spill something or accidentally break smth you get yelled at and punished. But you can also understand why parents did that. Things were hard to get.

    • @USER-xm9ne
      @USER-xm9ne 3 роки тому +269

      @@Kuralai95 yep, cause communism makes everyone equally poor

    • @daenerysmax6267
      @daenerysmax6267 3 роки тому +246

      @@Kuralai95 unfortunately, it wasn't only the parents who did that. Waiters or workers at food stores had tremendous power in communist countries because they were the gatekeepers of food and they loved to flex that power. One bad move and you were out. They were extremely mean and impolite.

    • @Kuralai95
      @Kuralai95 3 роки тому +55

      @@daenerysmax6267 I didn’t know that part, it’s really sad. That’s why it’s crazy to me when there are people who miss those times

  • @gdgd5194
    @gdgd5194 3 роки тому +3006

    "Highest quality meat, buns and potatoes"
    Sure m8, ofc.

    • @niggnogg1935
      @niggnogg1935 3 роки тому +2

      Ok

    • @ZNotFound
      @ZNotFound 3 роки тому +197

      Highest quality because it's the only food available there.

    • @bear1271
      @bear1271 3 роки тому +7

      Shut up

    • @smashexentertainment676
      @smashexentertainment676 3 роки тому +95

      It's Soviet Russia, the bar is not that high to be honest.

    • @tylergannon7398
      @tylergannon7398 3 роки тому +65

      I mean to be fair Mc Donalds used to taste and was made differently in the 80s and 90s compared to today.

  • @KeeperOfKale222
    @KeeperOfKale222 3 роки тому +2702

    *Smiles in Russian*
    “What? What is wrong?”

    • @Tycini1
      @Tycini1 3 роки тому +39

      Well, what _is_ wrong?

    • @Tycini1
      @Tycini1 3 роки тому +58

      Why are you smiling?

    • @SobaYatai
      @SobaYatai 3 роки тому +13

      @@Tycini1 being nice and polite

    • @Polyglot_English
      @Polyglot_English 3 роки тому

      Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙 🤙

    • @zuxx00
      @zuxx00 3 роки тому +35

      "What is this "smile" you are talking about?"

  • @Fnf_guy3900
    @Fnf_guy3900 2 роки тому +167

    Rest in peace mcdonald In Russia 1990 to 2022

    • @columnedfox5508
      @columnedfox5508 2 роки тому +21

      blame it on Putin and his ring of cronies

    • @zaidprogrammer
      @zaidprogrammer 7 місяців тому +4

      A proud nation reduced to nothing

    • @anjmg3322
      @anjmg3322 7 місяців тому

      mcdonalds is still running. just not under the name "mcdonalds". not to please russia, but the west's "sanctions"

    • @Ignisan_66
      @Ignisan_66 7 місяців тому +1

      Good ridance. F*ck McDonalds

    • @Kramolnlk
      @Kramolnlk 4 місяці тому +1

      @@columnedfox5508 not only puten but the nation itself

  • @grassfedd4729
    @grassfedd4729 3 роки тому +1803

    “This woman doesn't know what she just ate, but it was unusual and delicious.”😂

    • @zeryuouros4411
      @zeryuouros4411 3 роки тому +65

      That perfectly describe McDonald

    • @xXxJokerManxXx
      @xXxJokerManxXx 3 роки тому +67

      I love how he narrates like they're watching animals in National Geographic lmao

    • @baddiezone
      @baddiezone 3 роки тому +7

      @@xXxJokerManxXx 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @user-bv3rz9wq4o
      @user-bv3rz9wq4o 3 роки тому +7

      because there was a deficit in food lots of stuff wasnt in stores

    • @johnathanryan2117
      @johnathanryan2117 3 роки тому +2

      That was the last time anyone saw her after she said there was nowt in shops.

  • @communismwithgiggles2515
    @communismwithgiggles2515 3 роки тому +4257

    "I've been taught to smile at everyone, but they think I'm laughing at them."
    Truly Russian, they don't smile unless they mean it

    • @jat5am
      @jat5am 3 роки тому +281

      actually, I hate when people smile with no meaning. Also have a bad feeling about ppl who make selfies smiling at their frontal camera being all alone in their rooms. Have always leftswiped profiles at Badoo/Tinder with such photos. Some soulwreck I see in their eyes.

    • @redlou3908
      @redlou3908 3 роки тому +18

      that was a wierd feeling literally read this in the exact second she said it

    • @crazydrummer181
      @crazydrummer181 3 роки тому +242

      @@jat5am may be hard to believe but some people in this world are actually happy and smile naturally.

    • @diobrando5746
      @diobrando5746 3 роки тому +60

      @@crazydrummer181 i dont believe it
      people dont normally smile when they dont find something funny
      idk about america but here ppl dont pretend anything

    • @crazydrummer181
      @crazydrummer181 3 роки тому +116

      @@diobrando5746 do you think people only smile when they find something funny? Sorry, you’re kinda hard to understand.

  • @jenkins2122
    @jenkins2122 3 роки тому +3971

    USSR : "you can't defeat me"
    USA : "I know, but he can"

  • @VELVETPERSON
    @VELVETPERSON 2 роки тому +72

    I caught the arrival and departure of McDonald's in my country. truly milestone event

    • @007Hutchings
      @007Hutchings 6 місяців тому

      Must be the most exciting part of your life

  • @EvieStevie-Ahgase
    @EvieStevie-Ahgase 3 роки тому +1544

    When I was younger my russian parents would only get me McDonalds 3 times a year; birthdays, last day of school, and a pitstop whenever we would go to the beach
    Even though they called it junk food it felt more like "rare occasion/holiday" food

    • @gigipeedee
      @gigipeedee 3 роки тому +119

      @Robo that doesn't stop it from having a beach, or summers

    • @EvieStevie-Ahgase
      @EvieStevie-Ahgase 3 роки тому +103

      @Robo bold of you to assume I was born and raised in russia
      And yes Russia does have beaches my mom grew up in Gelendzhik (google it if you dont belive me) which was right by the Black Sea and she would walk to the nearby beaches daily

    • @afdhalulakbar5382
      @afdhalulakbar5382 3 роки тому +16

      @Robo 🤦

    • @theeggjohnson5930
      @theeggjohnson5930 3 роки тому +66

      @@afdhalulakbar5382 i feel like hes the type of person that thinks Europe is a country

    • @o.g.willikers1717
      @o.g.willikers1717 3 роки тому +7

      @@EvieStevie-Ahgase my grandma and I would swim in the Black Sea and I remember the water was literally black

  • @lennertvandyck5185
    @lennertvandyck5185 3 роки тому +3766

    Girls: smiles
    Soviet Union: What is wrong?!

    • @cookingwithkimbap4432
      @cookingwithkimbap4432 3 роки тому +16

      Spelled wrong loser

    • @mpking7565
      @mpking7565 3 роки тому +37

      Smiling is rude

    • @runetide
      @runetide 3 роки тому +141

      @@cookingwithkimbap4432 I bet you scour the comment sections eager to find grammar mistakes just so you can act like a wanker.

    • @LupeSunglass
      @LupeSunglass 3 роки тому +62

      @@cookingwithkimbap4432 lol you're sad

    • @victorcabecinha
      @victorcabecinha 3 роки тому

      lmaooooooooo

  • @ВадимГаркуша-я1п
    @ВадимГаркуша-я1п 3 роки тому +3017

    Old man say: I dont like.
    Translater: I dont like, this not russian

    • @boempow1124
      @boempow1124 3 роки тому +75

      You’re future as a trans later 👋.

    • @gabrielrenanamantedeaviao.750
      @gabrielrenanamantedeaviao.750 3 роки тому +343

      How to make anti commie propaganda.mp4

    • @thulsa_doom
      @thulsa_doom 3 роки тому +1

      Макдак

    • @joel0
      @joel0 3 роки тому +7

      @@boempow1124 huh

    • @someoneinthecrowd4313
      @someoneinthecrowd4313 3 роки тому +255

      This is why knowing more than 1 language is crucial, and flow of information is crucial. If this Russian who knows English didn't tell me this, I would have never known and would have fallen victim to propaganda.

  • @robertm1015
    @robertm1015 4 дні тому +6

    That's crazy, 34 years later it costs half-a-day's wages in America for lunch.

  • @hhh-cl2be
    @hhh-cl2be 3 роки тому +2069

    Imagine spending your half days wage, and be hungry again 40 minutes later.

  • @fadheelm
    @fadheelm 3 роки тому +2536

    This was the last day when Russia had 0% obesity rate

    • @ZippOR35
      @ZippOR35 3 роки тому +86

      McDonald's in Russia and McDonald's in USA are very different in their quality of products :)

    • @rolloxra670
      @rolloxra670 3 роки тому +116

      And the last day they were starving

    • @dhananjayvasudeva7628
      @dhananjayvasudeva7628 3 роки тому +136

      @@rolloxra670 Russia was starving because USA ate all the food

    • @afsdaafdsf9928
      @afsdaafdsf9928 3 роки тому +8

      @@dhananjayvasudeva7628 У нас наши же коммунисты отбирали еду. Людям приходилось людоедствовать.

    • @rolloxra670
      @rolloxra670 3 роки тому +95

      @@dhananjayvasudeva7628 Didn’t know Americans went to the USSR to eat all their food lol

  • @bobbyburkland
    @bobbyburkland 3 роки тому +2258

    dude that spilled his shake thought they were gonna send him to the gulag

    • @joshuagraham3
      @joshuagraham3 3 роки тому +36

      Now that’s what I would like to see

    • @cirmal3826
      @cirmal3826 3 роки тому +8

      Lmao

    • @stanleywhiteman6450
      @stanleywhiteman6450 3 роки тому +102

      Because they advertised this as a "restaurant" in 1991. In restaurants in Soviet Union was certain rules and a dress code. This is why was his reaction. In reality it was not.a restaurant.

    • @b.elzebub9252
      @b.elzebub9252 3 роки тому +34

      @@stanleywhiteman6450 Ah, that makes sense. I felt something must have been lost in translation or something. Why would they kick you out for accidentally spilling a drink that you already paid for? I'd understand handing you a mop and frowning at you or something. But kicking you out? Seems harsh.

    • @Прекрасныйнезнакомец-п7ю
      @Прекрасныйнезнакомец-п7ю 3 роки тому +21

      No, he didn’t think that. The GULAGs were a thing of the past by that time already. And Russia was getting more and more open to the west.

  • @Thaofficialsensei
    @Thaofficialsensei 2 роки тому +41

    I'm not a Fast Food kinda guy anymore but I can Deff appreciate the value of people being able to eat or try new things. It was great to see the nostalgia that Mickie D's brings to a community

  • @nightbotisahuman7388
    @nightbotisahuman7388 3 роки тому +6961

    "I don't like it at all, it's not Russian" is the most Russian thing that I ever heard in my life.
    EDIT: I'm a cute doge and thank you🐶

    • @orangecobraEU
      @orangecobraEU 3 роки тому +225

      This was ussr mentality

    • @diligentone-six2688
      @diligentone-six2688 3 роки тому +91

      Well at least they get to eat something. I can hardly imagine waiting in line for groceries that are always low on supply.

    • @Destin5258
      @Destin5258 3 роки тому +45

      Well you gotta wonder why she even ate there then. Does she go to a Chinese restaurant and complain that the food is too Chinese too? Probably, so why not just go to a Russian restaurant instead? I'm not mad I'm just confused.

    • @idkwelp1082
      @idkwelp1082 3 роки тому +60

      @@Destin5258 Bro there were no actual restaurant's back in the USSR days, plus I think they don't allow food from other countries back in those days so these foods literally look like they are from a different planet it looks so weird to them.

    • @penname5050
      @penname5050 3 роки тому +2

      @@diligentone-six2688 welcome covid

  • @danidon7979
    @danidon7979 3 роки тому +2794

    1:35 Salute to the guy who were measuring every single peeled potato.

    • @Lnninpz
      @Lnninpz 3 роки тому +83

      and without gloves

    • @haroldkumar5900
      @haroldkumar5900 3 роки тому +236

      @@Lnninpz who cares? It gets fried

    • @Lnninpz
      @Lnninpz 3 роки тому +25

      @@haroldkumar5900 I do

    • @haroldkumar5900
      @haroldkumar5900 3 роки тому +181

      @@Lnninpz that's dumb, the fry oil is so hot it will kill any germs transferred to from that guys hand well before it's cooked. I went to culinary school and this is totally safe.

    • @spore6050
      @spore6050 3 роки тому +3

      @@haroldkumar5900 yeah everyone should know that germs have a surviving temperature as well

  • @AlgoCurioso2.0
    @AlgoCurioso2.0 3 роки тому +12687

    1:38 lets all thanks the potato measure guy that always leaves one lovely extremely large frie that we leave it for last.

  • @BobSnod
    @BobSnod 16 днів тому +12

    It costs half a days wage here in the UK in 2024

    • @strawberryswoosher7070
      @strawberryswoosher7070 5 днів тому

      in russia nowadays 1 hour of work barely grants you a bigmac, if we talk about Moscow. in other regions it's usually half less

    • @zhulikkulik
      @zhulikkulik День тому

      I'd say it's ~⅓ - ¼ in Russia. 500-600p for a single person (a simple combo: burger, fries and a drink, not something crazy). For Moscow it´s actually more like ⅐ - ⅛.

    • @strawberryswoosher7070
      @strawberryswoosher7070 День тому

      @@zhulikkulik i wonder what is considered a lunch in GB if the minimum national wage is 11.44 pounds per hour (1437 rub), and a simple combo costs 7,2 pounds (941 rub)

  • @Nickname10344
    @Nickname10344 4 роки тому +3746

    Nothing says “The Cold War is over” than McDonalds in Moscow. American Capitalism at its finest.

    • @namesurname9105
      @namesurname9105 3 роки тому +103

      I don't necessarily think that capitalism is good, both communism and capitalism are flawed.

    • @Nickname10344
      @Nickname10344 3 роки тому +226

      @@namesurname9105 True capitalism is hell. True communism is hell. You always need to go in between.

    • @bigman4644
      @bigman4644 3 роки тому +27

      It was Canadian diplomacy

    • @SebastianDiaz-eq6gs
      @SebastianDiaz-eq6gs 3 роки тому +35

      @@namesurname9105 looks like you don't know the communism look how bad is the argentina situation thanks to the socialism we are almost like Venezuela Cuba and north korea

    • @Miguel_El_Chileno
      @Miguel_El_Chileno 3 роки тому +10

      The Soviet Union Collapsed 30 years ago in 1991 and the United States will Collapse within 30 years due to National Bankruptcy/Sovereign Default and Civil War due to Partisan(ship) Radicalization and Polarization

  • @ramborghini88
    @ramborghini88 3 роки тому +1971

    The guy who dropped his shake thought someone was going to grab him and tell him “ come with me”

  • @officialniktheking6891
    @officialniktheking6891 3 роки тому +988

    I grew up in the south of Russia and my city did not have a mcdonalds. It was 1998 and my mom had to fly to Moscow for business. She bought me a happy meal and did not tough a single fry till she got home from the airport. Good times

    • @spazerabanekozeroshki
      @spazerabanekozeroshki 3 роки тому +39

      What did you think of the happy meal

    • @BeyondPostal
      @BeyondPostal 3 роки тому +101

      @@spazerabanekozeroshki I have a hunch it made him "Happy"

    • @thomash7294
      @thomash7294 3 роки тому +22

      Wasn't it cold lol?

    • @acel2413
      @acel2413 3 роки тому +31

      @@thomash7294 the good old communest microwave heated it

    • @tomservo5347
      @tomservo5347 3 роки тому +43

      Wow! Aren't mom's wonderful? Loose fries in the bag are fair game in my book.

  • @VieleGuteFahrer
    @VieleGuteFahrer 2 роки тому +25

    It’s 2022 and Russia is one step closer to soviet times after McDonald's announced to close all their stores. 🤔

  • @honeybellebuzlucay5867
    @honeybellebuzlucay5867 3 роки тому +5596

    "I don't like it at all, it's not Russian."
    *Continues to sip cola aggressively*
    Edit: So apparently the old man didn't say "it's not russian" it was added by the translator, sorry about that

    • @mtf_nine_tailed_fox385
      @mtf_nine_tailed_fox385 3 роки тому +292

      _"I don't like McDonald's"_
      (While Holding an Empty Big Mac Wraper, and a half cup of coke left)

    • @donttreadonmegamereviews4928
      @donttreadonmegamereviews4928 3 роки тому +285

      Its called being in denial, because he knew what he was eating was the product of America.

    • @ArtyomCCCP
      @ArtyomCCCP 3 роки тому +117

      But russians already knew what is cola,they had pepsi since 60s

    • @georgebush623
      @georgebush623 3 роки тому +25

      But... He didnt take a sip...

    • @dannymckenzie8329
      @dannymckenzie8329 3 роки тому +9

      This is so clearly from a different time and place

  • @dylanriley4364
    @dylanriley4364 3 роки тому +1528

    “Meat, bread, potatoes and milk of the highest quality” lol, that’s not usually how I would describe McDonalds.

    • @rich925cal1
      @rich925cal1 3 роки тому +10

      Milk? Tf
      Oooooh, the shake ...? 🤔

    • @sus4644
      @sus4644 3 роки тому +36

      @@rich925cal1 c h e e s e

    • @maximus_9114
      @maximus_9114 3 роки тому +5

      Unless you are the CEO, that is

    • @donttreadonmegamereviews4928
      @donttreadonmegamereviews4928 3 роки тому +28

      McDonalds probably was in higher quality back in 1990 then it is today.

    • @pepeokatze
      @pepeokatze 3 роки тому +3

      The soviet union is so bad McDonalds Milkshake taste like heavens milk 😏😏😏 This is why you shouldnt vote in communist like the Dems !!!! Now the USA is doomed to follow communism 🤢🤮🤮

  • @X23SSaviourGundam
    @X23SSaviourGundam 3 роки тому +5239

    "I don't like it at all, it's not Russian" said the most stereotypically dressed Russian in the 80s

    • @hasselnttper3730
      @hasselnttper3730 3 роки тому +181

      I love non-Norwegian food *because* it isn't Norwegian. Who wants salty fish or salty meat every day? No one under the age of 90.

    • @gatzon2757
      @gatzon2757 3 роки тому +34

      @@hasselnttper3730 salty meat sounds interesting

    • @ciphernine7637
      @ciphernine7637 3 роки тому +32

      @@hasselnttper3730 Exactly! I'm sure Norwegian food is lovely, but I love to try all different sorts of cuisines.
      I really wonder what this guy expected.

    • @labadaba5088
      @labadaba5088 3 роки тому +51

      yeah, I was thinking, dude, McDonald's is American food, why you go to American resturant when you want Russian food.

    • @miistre
      @miistre 3 роки тому +18

      He didnt actually say that dk why they translated it that way

  • @HarleyLuna31
    @HarleyLuna31 2 місяці тому +7

    The first guy wasnt used to have a full stomach 😂

  • @oak1739
    @oak1739 3 роки тому +1924

    "When I smile , they think I laughing at them"
    Russia, folks.

    • @Мирич-з4е
      @Мирич-з4е 3 роки тому +215

      When I have a different opinion, they think I hate them.
      USA, folks.

    • @no-if1ol
      @no-if1ol 3 роки тому +51

      Literally! In russia you dont just smile at people out of politeness or whatever like how you do in the west. That was one of the first sights of westernization in russia.

    • @TinyBolts1
      @TinyBolts1 3 роки тому +13

      all of eastern europe is like that

    • @cinema_yo
      @cinema_yo 3 роки тому +11

      @@Мирич-з4е Liberals*

    • @cockus123
      @cockus123 3 роки тому +5

      @@Мирич-з4е when was this the USA? U don’t know what ur talking bout.

  • @mrbeef3528
    @mrbeef3528 3 роки тому +3058

    "One woman, speaking in Russian, confessed to not knowing what it was she ate."
    LMAOOOO

    • @fem.2019
      @fem.2019 3 роки тому +1

      Lol

    • @lucid4271
      @lucid4271 3 роки тому +28

      "And here we can see more than 6 people in one store standing close to each other without a mask, In moscow, 1990"

    • @insomb
      @insomb 3 роки тому +40

      Same thing in the United States, still trying to figure out what it is.

    • @stefannotchev7209
      @stefannotchev7209 3 роки тому +1

      @@lucid4271 just so strange to me lmao. I started working at McDonald’s over the summer while the pandemic was in full swing

    • @k.umquat8604
      @k.umquat8604 3 роки тому +41

      @Jason B It's not because she's brainwashed, how would anyone know what a burger is if you were trying it for the first time?

  • @mandarinmanus
    @mandarinmanus 3 роки тому +649

    EXCHANGE RATES: Probably gonna get buried but for those curious, I did some research and it turns out 1 dollar in 1990 was equivalent to about 0.59 Rubles. That makes an 8 ruble Russian McMeal equivalent to about 13.50 in 1990 USD. Adjusted for inflation, that comes out to about $27 in 2021 USD. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25, with take home pay after Medicare and social security being more like $6.70 an hour. Multiply that by 4, and you have half a day's wages coming out to $26.80.

    • @mullajohn2803
      @mullajohn2803 3 роки тому +30

      Damn thats alot

    • @MalleusRegum
      @MalleusRegum 3 роки тому +66

      @@mullajohn2803 The late USSR wages were paradoxically high, however, even better than in modern Russia. Too high. There weren't enough goods for all that money, especially when enterprises started hiding and storing stuff to sell it later at better "market" prices.

    • @zj871023
      @zj871023 3 роки тому +17

      @@MalleusRegum well that sounds rather corporate and capitalist for a communist country/enterprise :D
      let that be a lesson for all :D

    • @Faxy95
      @Faxy95 3 роки тому +7

      That's insane. In the 90's we payed less than $2 AUD for a big mac, and when it came to my country in the 70's a big mac was about half a dollar. A whole meal in the 90's was just a few dollars.

    • @Anakeish
      @Anakeish 3 роки тому +8

      That's pretty impossible that 1 dolar = 0.59 Rubles. Russia in 1990 entered massive inflation. In 1986, 800 rubles was worth 11$ XD

  • @tacticalpause3767
    @tacticalpause3767 2 роки тому +77

    Annnnnnnnnnnd…it’s gone

    • @Lurk-s
      @Lurk-s 4 місяці тому

      Russians: what?!
      Mc:yes, it's gone, poof.

    • @user-rj4gu5oh3k
      @user-rj4gu5oh3k 3 місяці тому +2

      Mcdonalds is still there it just got bought by a rich Russian dude.

  • @skylargray455
    @skylargray455 3 роки тому +1063

    "they are ripping us off"
    Yep, that's typical for McDonald's

    • @Renovartio
      @Renovartio 3 роки тому +40

      And yet cheaper than pretty much all other restaurants 🤔

    • @MrBrett-rs5tb
      @MrBrett-rs5tb 3 роки тому +13

      Cap

    • @MrBrett-rs5tb
      @MrBrett-rs5tb 3 роки тому +39

      They cheap af it’s not a rip off

    • @Jyko11
      @Jyko11 3 роки тому +1

      This comment is made by Fanboys outside Mcdonals gang.

    • @OfficialDiffy
      @OfficialDiffy 3 роки тому +18

      If you think McDonald's are expensive, then boy do I have some burger joints for you!

  • @mrvk39
    @mrvk39 4 роки тому +2339

    Training Russian workers to smile all the time - that must've been a feat of management and psychology!

    • @ClearsightAltAccount
      @ClearsightAltAccount 3 роки тому +13

      Russians always smile tho

    • @hostileenvironment6107
      @hostileenvironment6107 3 роки тому +111

      @@ClearsightAltAccountBy smile do you mean smile upside down?

    • @ClearsightAltAccount
      @ClearsightAltAccount 3 роки тому +3

      @@hostileenvironment6107 nope

    • @daifee9174
      @daifee9174 3 роки тому +20

      I mean, nor americans or russians know something called the NEUTRAL face, russians always frown and americans always smile.

    • @kyriljordanov2086
      @kyriljordanov2086 3 роки тому +9

      Not for the young. They were already pretty Westernized by 1990.

  • @mashroob
    @mashroob 3 роки тому +947

    Meanwhile in ‘Murica...
    “I SAID I wanted a number 1 with a DIET COKE! Where’s your manager?”

  • @TheSOADMezmerize
    @TheSOADMezmerize 2 роки тому +76

    absolutely surreal to see this and seeing a glimpse of today's russia, they really reverted back to pre-mcdonald's soviet union.

    • @localshopkeeper9517
      @localshopkeeper9517 2 роки тому

      loool

    • @zoricadjuric12
      @zoricadjuric12 2 роки тому

      Its from 1990.

    • @a_r_t1217
      @a_r_t1217 2 роки тому

      McDonald's will remain in Russia, only the business will be transferred to a Russian businessman, and the company itself will change its name and logo

    • @Ignisan_66
      @Ignisan_66 7 місяців тому

      They are no longer your puppet.

    • @АртёмСотников-я2я
      @АртёмСотников-я2я 6 місяців тому

      Persecution for expressing an unpopular opinion, taboo topics, banned words and canceling people's careers just by denouncing them.
      Oh, wait, that's not Russia. It's the United States today.
      Anyway, were we talking about the USSR?

  • @seyoftime9999
    @seyoftime9999 3 роки тому +2995

    Girl: smiles
    Soviet union: we don't do that here

    • @croissantlover1
      @croissantlover1 3 роки тому +42

      well, after Capitalism, they do!

    • @ШУЕ5000
      @ШУЕ5000 3 роки тому +81

      @@croissantlover1 No, we don't >:(

    • @RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UK
      @RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UK 3 роки тому +104

      @@croissantlover1
      No, it’s still considered strange to smile to strangers in Russia, otherwise people will think you’re crazy. But in America it’s normal.

    • @drakoronus
      @drakoronus 3 роки тому +1

      @@RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UK No they won't wtf

    • @croissantlover1
      @croissantlover1 3 роки тому

      @@ШУЕ5000 haha you do!

  • @lkvideos7181
    @lkvideos7181 3 роки тому +471

    "It's very beautiful, but I kinda expected more" pretty much summs up my McDonalds experience.

    • @Polyglot_English
      @Polyglot_English 3 роки тому

      Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙 🤙 🤙 🤙 🤙

    • @aPanchoSamurai
      @aPanchoSamurai 3 роки тому

      69th like

    • @creatorzp
      @creatorzp 3 роки тому +4

      minus the "beautiful" part.

    • @loafbread1920
      @loafbread1920 3 роки тому +3

      You mean "very blyatiful" comrad fix it

  • @Celler2
    @Celler2 3 роки тому +1228

    I remember this, My Grandma took me, I was but 6 years old, we stood in line for nearly 7 hours. I think the ketchup packs and strawberry milkshake was my fav items, and my very tired grandma sitting across from me.

  • @Fermifire
    @Fermifire 5 місяців тому +7

    1990: I'm lovin' it!
    2024: I can't afford it!

  • @__-pl3jg
    @__-pl3jg 3 роки тому +133

    Guys....This was not very long ago. Can you imagine being in a place where the average person thinks you're laughing at them simply because you're smiling? What a gem of history this video is.

    • @fazmalist6986
      @fazmalist6986 3 роки тому +27

      Russians don’t respect false emotions. It is common in the US but not here)

    • @NewNicator
      @NewNicator 3 роки тому +4

      Not only a former Soviet thing but in Central Europe as well. Think I read that one of the reasons Walmart failed in Germany is that consumers felt uncomfortable from the forced-smiles made by employees, saying it felt flirtatious. People often prefer genuine facial-reactions when interacting with someone in these regions.

    • @GregLemons
      @GregLemons 3 роки тому +4

      @Robo It's got nothing to do with the USSR it's about the region and culture.. Are you serious

  • @user-xo5zt3ig6h
    @user-xo5zt3ig6h 3 роки тому +2159

    So the man says: ”Well, _I_ didn't like it. But maybe...” (Ну, _мне_ не понравилось. А может быть...) And then they cut it off.
    Translation: ”I don't like it at all, it's not Russian.”
    Woman goes: "There was such a stampede here.” (Такая давка была)
    Translation: "We need more of these places. There's nothing in our restaurants.”
    The challenges of translations I guess 😁

    • @patricksoares6253
      @patricksoares6253 3 роки тому +130

      Are you serious? Damn

    • @magistro999
      @magistro999 3 роки тому +370

      Woman says: "We're all hungry, there is nothing in our stores" as well. But yes, they did cut off phrases, and translations are a little strange.

    • @user-xo5zt3ig6h
      @user-xo5zt3ig6h 3 роки тому +150

      @@magistro999 yeah, she talked about stores before that and said ”you could say, we are all hungry”. That's why I posted specific Russian phrases after which translations stop matching original phrases. She said nothing about restaurants and needing more of them. And things they did translate like that one they have loud and clear. And then when they make it up it's very quiet but you can still hear in this cases. And when guy supposedly said that he was worried they will throw him out it's muted to completely inaudible. While you can hear what he said before and after. So I am curious if he said that too :)

    • @prgn7
      @prgn7 3 роки тому +14

      О русский, привет

    • @ferdtheterd3897
      @ferdtheterd3897 3 роки тому +36

      Sometimes they do it on purpose lol

  • @culpritdesign
    @culpritdesign 3 роки тому +1871

    1990: McDonald’s invaded Russia
    1991: USSR collapses
    🤔

    • @JS-wp4gs
      @JS-wp4gs 3 роки тому +164

      Behold the power of the hamburger and sickle

    • @bruhm4571
      @bruhm4571 3 роки тому +106

      Ronald McDonald, fighter of communism

    • @ThoughtCrimeCriminal
      @ThoughtCrimeCriminal 3 роки тому +28

      Don't worry they just rebranded
      They coming back for payback with China, I mean they got China Joe in office . I suggest we better start learning Chinese and or Russian.

    • @themoshpit8341
      @themoshpit8341 3 роки тому +30

      @@ThoughtCrimeCriminal Russian is a funner language than Chinese and way more badass. Also, I believe Russia isn't really communist, at least not as bad as China. Seriously though, who voted for Biden!? And now they are regretting it ahahahha

    • @ClideGeardenaweseomeness
      @ClideGeardenaweseomeness 3 роки тому +6

      @@JS-wp4gs I think you mean pickle

  • @alexwu358
    @alexwu358 2 роки тому +40

    RIP Russian McDonalds 1990-2022

    • @alexwu358
      @alexwu358 5 місяців тому

      @JohnSmith-jv8ze Upgraded to Submarine

    • @jebojebic1621
      @jebojebic1621 5 місяців тому

      @@alexwu358 And Twin towers are upgraded to a hole 🤭

  • @HiddenLotus111
    @HiddenLotus111 3 роки тому +372

    The staff smiling had the guests wondering if they were laughing at them. Incredible

    • @rvrmdude
      @rvrmdude 3 роки тому +34

      Apparently smiling is only polite in western culture .

    • @marsultor6131
      @marsultor6131 3 роки тому +32

      I think it was more that they had to smile constantly. That’s weird.

    • @corey725
      @corey725 3 роки тому +51

      Smiling all the time is a very western thing. It is not a indicator of a countries citizens overall happiness, rather it is a social norm here in the West. I find the fact we smile all the time despite our feelings pretty creepy tbh lol.

    • @Dr.HooWho
      @Dr.HooWho 3 роки тому

      @@corey725 well people smile so others wouldnt feel like they are annoying to them always

    • @mariomm9080
      @mariomm9080 3 роки тому +27

      @@rvrmdude because russians dont use fake smiles like western people

  • @ottovonweaboo6355
    @ottovonweaboo6355 3 роки тому +2316

    For me this was the true ending of the cold war

    • @firsfnamelastname8490
      @firsfnamelastname8490 3 роки тому +74

      It ended?

    • @crk77777
      @crk77777 3 роки тому +60

      @@firsfnamelastname8490 You know, that's almost exactly the thought that entered my head upon reading his comment..

    • @fartunyep4501
      @fartunyep4501 3 роки тому +8

      @@firsfnamelastname8490 so true its still on lool

    • @RhythmAddictedState
      @RhythmAddictedState 3 роки тому +17

      The Cold War never ended lmao

    • @darodism
      @darodism 3 роки тому +3

      100%

  • @kadafi4lyf
    @kadafi4lyf 3 роки тому +2499

    1:38 lmao can you imagine a bureacrat coming and saying to you "dmitri, you will measure potatos for imperialist restaurant chain"

    • @chill_pilll
      @chill_pilll 3 роки тому +142

      Damn how you know my name?

    • @titaiao
      @titaiao 3 роки тому +146

      @@chill_pilll we all know you... we always observe you... better change your shampoo, isn't good for your skin.

    • @joseiraheta5218
      @joseiraheta5218 3 роки тому +66

      @@chill_pilll we also watch u at night so we know ur safe

    • @Evandarlingisdaddy
      @Evandarlingisdaddy 3 роки тому +77

      @@chill_pilll Don’t worry serial number 42069, you’re not on our list yet

    • @somthingimportants
      @somthingimportants 3 роки тому +46

      @@chill_pilll go back to sleep, we will keep you safe from truth and choice

  • @jrich52804
    @jrich52804 2 роки тому +27

    Today, March 8, 2022. McDonald's closed all locations in Russia.

    • @ferventtrickster3362
      @ferventtrickster3362 2 роки тому +4

      🇷🇺😓😢😭😭да здравствует россия🇷🇺🇸🇮🇸🇰

    • @what_d0_1_say
      @what_d0_1_say 21 день тому

      all locations were closed on dec 1 2022

  • @The_Horizon
    @The_Horizon 3 роки тому +7080

    "Meat, Bread, Potatoes, and Milk" of the highest quality does not make me picture a hamburger

    • @stats.fmaaanton
      @stats.fmaaanton 3 роки тому +40

      Love ur videos about griefing pay to win servers dude!

    • @warszawianek
      @warszawianek 3 роки тому +37

      Ah yes so we have high quality milk melted on top of meat put in between bread with a side of potatoes

    • @moisesmontecillo7570
      @moisesmontecillo7570 3 роки тому +30

      Probably not in that order but theres some white folks that eat Roast and wash it down with milk. I thought it was so weird when I was a teen and just started dating my wife but she was eating dinner and had milk with her main and I thought it was gross cuz well I'm mexican. We dont do that but yeah... idk kinda went off on a tangent

    • @KudosK42
      @KudosK42 3 роки тому +2

      Well its the 90's so it wasn't a big deal.

    • @5446isnotmynumber
      @5446isnotmynumber 3 роки тому +5

      @praise the omnissiah! It is the lowest quality

  • @craigthescott5074
    @craigthescott5074 3 роки тому +298

    My wife is Russian she said she and her mom waited all day in the 90’s in a line that went on forever to eat at the first McDonald’s in Moscow. And she hates McDonald’s.

    • @Light-cy1gp
      @Light-cy1gp 3 роки тому +4

      😂😂That made me laugh!

    • @euphra5674
      @euphra5674 3 роки тому

      Dad

    • @jotenmike
      @jotenmike 3 роки тому +3

      What else would you do in Russia

    • @b.elzebub9252
      @b.elzebub9252 3 роки тому

      Sounds like a serious case of the FOMO's

    • @Abandonsoyciety
      @Abandonsoyciety 3 роки тому +2

      Maybe she hates mcdonalds because of that lol

  • @Caesar88888
    @Caesar88888 3 роки тому +2495

    lol I remember when 25 years ago first mcDonalds opened in Ukraine my parents believed it was very high quality food, because what else could you expect from american company? and when we were kids we used to trick mcDonalds workers to give us free food, we left one hamburger and cola at a table and went to toilet, seeing half eaten food on the table workers threw it away, then we came back and demanded to give us food they threw away, and when they asked what exactly we had we said it was 3 big macs, 3 milkshakes,3 pies and so on, and they used to give us all that for free.
    Friend taught me this trick 😁

  • @caseyandtoryshalloween1236
    @caseyandtoryshalloween1236 2 роки тому +14

    This woman doesn’t know what she just ate but she said it was “unusual and delicious” 32 years later and we still don’t know what’s in McDonald’s food🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @Joelontugs
    @Joelontugs 4 роки тому +2532

    Lenin has turned into a fidget spinner in his grave lol

    • @mentiquebakabila4254
      @mentiquebakabila4254 4 роки тому +6

      Don’t get it

    • @LordDavid04
      @LordDavid04 4 роки тому +121

      What grave? He's embalmed in a mausoleum in the Kremlin.

    • @kekfromkekistan3057
      @kekfromkekistan3057 4 роки тому +130

      @@mentiquebakabila4254 it means that Lenin, the anti-capitalist. Is very upset at the fact that the USSR was becoming capitalist.

    • @pasta8709
      @pasta8709 3 роки тому +19

      @@kekfromkekistan3057 Communist country needs revisionist like Gorbachev.

    • @FoxyBoxery
      @FoxyBoxery 3 роки тому +9

      Lmfao, we need a Lenin fidget spinner!

  • @andrewgunn9408
    @andrewgunn9408 3 роки тому +2123

    America: "I'm loving it."
    USSR: "We're loving it."

    • @heyhey8626
      @heyhey8626 3 роки тому +13

      this isn't comedy

    • @memoo183
      @memoo183 3 роки тому +93

      @@heyhey8626 but you are a clown 🤡

    • @Panzer_Runner
      @Panzer_Runner 3 роки тому +72

      @@heyhey8626 comedy is subjective, Murray

    • @heyhey8626
      @heyhey8626 3 роки тому +4

      @@Panzer_Runner I don't get the reference.

    • @ЛевЕвсеев-ш6н
      @ЛевЕвсеев-ш6н 3 роки тому +62

      @@heyhey8626 "You wouldn't get it."

  • @universal_wisdom3416
    @universal_wisdom3416 3 роки тому +3201

    Cute McDonald’s girls: **smiling profusely**
    Ruskies: “is there problem??”

    • @yaboiiz2766
      @yaboiiz2766 3 роки тому +69

      She’s beautiful

    • @Xorthane
      @Xorthane 3 роки тому +80

      @@yaboiiz2766 not anymore 🤔

    • @orcmama8
      @orcmama8 3 роки тому +21

      "Theres no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going... "

    • @KosherPorky
      @KosherPorky 3 роки тому +82

      @@Xorthane lol you're not wrong. 31 years does a lot to a person.. especially a russian

    • @krasnodar94
      @krasnodar94 3 роки тому +40

      @@KosherPorky we dont age . just look at our leader

  • @trswqb-8853
    @trswqb-8853 2 роки тому +31

    We've gone full circle

  • @tlechannel4509
    @tlechannel4509 3 роки тому +201

    I genuinely love everything about this video. From the guys saying he doesn't like it because it's not Russian to the guy thinking he was going to get thrown out for spilling his milkshake but instead got another one.

  • @RaxOnya
    @RaxOnya 3 роки тому +1474

    I always knew when Putin smiles, he is laughing at us.

  • @hdexotic1914
    @hdexotic1914 3 роки тому +1857

    *spills milkshake
    “you are go to gulag now”

  • @OGYouTubeEnjoyer
    @OGYouTubeEnjoyer 22 дні тому +6

    "Costs half-a-day's wage" So not much different then over here.

  • @GandyDev
    @GandyDev 3 роки тому +478

    Imagine putting half a days wages into food and then someone in the crowd bumps you and you drop it all

    • @RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UK
      @RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UK 3 роки тому +62

      They would give you another meal anyway

    • @T1C45
      @T1C45 3 роки тому +38

      McDonalds would clean up the mess and give you another meal.
      With a smile at that.

    • @plowking813
      @plowking813 3 роки тому +8

      imagine putting all income into rent or housing 🤣

    • @JM-nt5ex
      @JM-nt5ex 3 роки тому +6

      @@T1C45 Have you ever been to McDonalds? They'd get angry, complain, and possibly call you names. I've seen some places where workers are legit confrontational

    • @momoneylee
      @momoneylee 3 роки тому +6

      @@JM-nt5ex only if you're a doormat

  • @Mic_Glow
    @Mic_Glow 3 роки тому +215

    They eased off on the "fake smile" policy outside US. Maybe they realized in some countries it's not good practice.

    • @Chelz12
      @Chelz12 3 роки тому +23

      Who smiles in McDonald’s in Us? Hahaha it’s a lackluster place

    • @stefannotchev7209
      @stefannotchev7209 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah lmao I certainly don’t. Granted, I’m a grill worker/assembler, but presenters aren’t rly all smiles either

    • @mehdisol7094
      @mehdisol7094 3 роки тому +6

      i wish they would smile at my mcdonald

    • @vic2958
      @vic2958 3 роки тому +7

      they don’t smile in the US 😭

    • @Juggs009
      @Juggs009 3 роки тому +6

      Bruh the employees in every mcdonalds I've gone in my life looked depressed af and didn't want to be there, whaddya mean?

  • @wevegottrouble5891
    @wevegottrouble5891 3 роки тому +1774

    "I spilled my Milkshake and thought they'd send me to the Gulags! Instead they brought me a new one!"

  • @fluffy-puffy-puppy
    @fluffy-puffy-puppy 2 роки тому +27

    Press f to pay respect to both Ronalds👇

  • @Gab2008
    @Gab2008 3 роки тому +840

    I love how they replaced the Soviet Union with a McDonald’s

    • @Xighor
      @Xighor 3 роки тому +53

      McDonald's actually feeds people unlike the Soviet Union..

    • @jakubb9498
      @jakubb9498 3 роки тому +15

      The flag has same colors. Red and yellow go well together!

    • @Hades.666
      @Hades.666 3 роки тому +1

      @@Xighor that was a good one

    • @christopherjohansson3073
      @christopherjohansson3073 3 роки тому +3

      @@Xighor Haha communism no food funni

    • @Xighor
      @Xighor 3 роки тому +9

      @@christopherjohansson3073 It's not funny it's actually sad how many have starved to death thanks to communism
      Let people still keep falling for their tricks and think these dictators are their friends
      People in Venezuela are still eating pets. Rats and out of bind
      Soviet Union and China are other examples

  • @Fleecejonhson
    @Fleecejonhson 3 роки тому +1689

    The cashier: 😃
    Customer: why are you laughing at me?”
    LMAO 😆

    • @stefannotchev7209
      @stefannotchev7209 3 роки тому +98

      Customer: what, you wanna fight?!
      Cashier: no no I just-
      Manager: hey! I told you to keep smiling

    • @RonaldRegan314
      @RonaldRegan314 3 роки тому +16

      Lol what a silly situation 😅

    • @LaserTractor
      @LaserTractor 3 роки тому +72

      @@RonaldRegan314 smile when reason to smile. Easy unspoken rule in russia

    • @acutechicken5798
      @acutechicken5798 3 роки тому +83

      In Russia, people only smile towards friends and family, not with strangers. For this reason, the person was suspicious.

    • @cautarepvp2079
      @cautarepvp2079 3 роки тому

      loool

  • @ltabdelhak8996
    @ltabdelhak8996 3 роки тому +1697

    “how did it taste, sir ?”
    “it tastes like capitalism”

    • @zurzakne-etra7069
      @zurzakne-etra7069 3 роки тому +26

      with covid and capitalism failing the poorest of the poor, whist the richest 0.01 person doubled and tripled their wealth, I don't know if this is a good thing or not lol

    • @liasmettler2996
      @liasmettler2996 3 роки тому +79

      @@zurzakne-etra7069 actually, covid measures forbid capitalism to take place, which is why the poor are getting poorer

    • @dislike_button33
      @dislike_button33 3 роки тому +88

      @@zurzakne-etra7069 Capitalism is doing just fine. Communism has never worked.

    • @waterbender6288
      @waterbender6288 3 роки тому +41

      @@zurzakne-etra7069 the government is preventing capitalism from taking place its not failing it’s just being choked to death by the government.

    • @Pray888
      @Pray888 3 роки тому +41

      @@zurzakne-etra7069 Capitalism also produced the vaccine in under a year. Any socialist nation, if the USSR is anything to go by, would take decades and then decades more to actually get enough produced.

  • @videogamemusicrenditionsby7625
    @videogamemusicrenditionsby7625 2 роки тому +3

    Several people think that having macdonalds in a country is a signal of "progress". Absolutely ludicrous....