The taste of freedom

People waiting in line for food in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s:

The opening day line for the newest outpost of the Shake Shack in Moscow:

That’s nothing, though, compared to the line to get into the first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union, which opened in Moscow in 1990.

A year later in Moscow, an estimated 1.6 million people turned out to see Metallica in concert. Look at all those people:

• communism
• food
• McDonald’s
• Metallica
• Russia
• Shake Shack
• Soviet Union