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Following the news, the McDonald's is closing all of its fast food restaurants in Russia

we're going back to 1990 when the ultimate symbol of Western capitalism first reached Moscow. Although change was underway, the capital of the

Communist Soviet Union was still a city of food shortages and endless cues. In 2015 Mike Lanchin spoke to George Cohen, a former

top McDonald's executive.

I couldn't sleep and I woke up about five in the morning. My wife was there and my two

young sons and I called the restaurant and I said, are there any lineups? And they said,

yet, no lineups. And I thought, God, that's strange. We're opening a 10 in the morning and there's been a lot of

hype on a lot of media hype around the world.

They've got to be people there. I can't understand why there's no lineups.

And I said to my wife you stay in bed honey I'm going to get up and hop in a cab and go there and see what's going on.

George Cohen, founder of McDonald's Canada, had been working towards this big day for more than a decade.

So we got to the restaurant and there were a lot of police in front of the restaurant but no people.

We turned the corner and there were thousands of thousands of people on a cold gray dismal mourning in Moscow waiting in line to get into McDonald's and there were barricades.

I said to the police, well, when are you going to let the barricades. I said to the police

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