Test the West. Are Russians the better capitalists? Faster than the Americans, the Russians will consolidate their beer market
They came, saw and conquered. And on a broad front too. Now Russian brewers are racing to snap up the best deals from under each others noses. At one time it would have been called redistribution, nowadays it’s consolidation.
Nineteen sixty-eight was a fateful year. In the USA both human rights activist Martin Luther King and Secretary of State for Justice Robert Kennedy were shot. Civil war broke out in Biafra. The Czech uprising in Prague rocked the Soviet regime but did not bring it down. In Europe and the USA students fought with the police. Long-haired types chanted "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh". Decent folk quaked in fear of the Reds.) mind/."
The Beatles no longer exist, nor does the USSR. Hard to believe, but "Back in the USSR" is a party favourite, 35 years on.
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