The walls are pockmarked from shrapnel and the golden arches are melted at Ukraine’s first McDonald’s. But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations, still serves as a refuge in Kyiv.
  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
    143·
    17 hours ago

    I hate to agree with russia, but all mcdonalds should be destroyed. It’s poison garbage food and you all should know it.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      16 hours ago

      it’s garbage, but don’t forget, russia used to have mcd’s themselves. and even now, russia has a knockoff mcd’z.

      • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
        61·
        16 hours ago

        I find it very curious how russia does some interesting things like that. One of the few places that invest heavily in sovereignty and makes resistance to us brands. A pity they kind of do that for the wrong reasons and are imperialist themselves

        • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          What’s interesting about this? MacDonald’s left after the fullscale invasion, and someone bought the assets to make a cheap kickoff.

          It is not about sovereignty, they try to preserve Moscow as “rich and just like the West”, cause it’s the place foreigners visit.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          15 hours ago

          yeah it’s wild how they can despise the west… but also, want to be the west themselves? they despise capitalists… and have hollowed out their own country with crony capitalism… they’re a failed petrostate who are losing a war to a tiny neighbor, 1000-1600 dead every day, going on longer than WW1.

          oh and they have the second largest pile of nuclear weapons in the world (or first, depending on whose numbers you trust)…