Putin's war has closed every McDonald's in Russia. I remember the excitement when they first opened | Viv Groskop

Thirty years ago I queued beside my St Petersburg friends on their first visit to the Golden Arches. After communism and the cold war, the ‘Beeg Mak’ was a taste of the world they had dreamed of, writes Viv Groskop

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