Once a powerful symbol of change in Russia, McDonald's closes its doors after invasion of Ukraine - ABC News

McDonald's first opened its doors in Moscow just after the Berlin Wall came down, but now it's closing those same doors as Russia moves from once optimistically embracing symbols of the West to now outwardly rejecting them.

Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a gleaming new McDonald's. It was the first American fast-food restaurant to enter the Soviet… [+5668 chars]

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