Do You Love Coca-Cola Enough That You Would Smuggle It? This Guy Did
by N/A, 10 years ago |
2 min read
You may be a Coke fan, but are you so big a fan that they made you your own specific drink? Probably not. One man in history, though, did have such an honor.
When General Dwight Eisenhower was negotiating with Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, he brought him a gift he thought he'd really love—some Coca-Cola.
And Eisenhower was right—Zhukov totally loved it! He ate—or rather, drank—it right up!
Zhukov couldn't exactly be seen shipping in bulk amounts of Coca-Cola, though. Even though he was having these negotiations with Eisenhower, the Cold War was still in effect, and making an agreement with the most American of American countries would defin
But the man just HAD to have his Coca-Cola fix!
Zhukov ended up making a request through the U.S. military for some of the drink to be covertly shipped without its brown coloring, making it a clear drink, and have it put in disguised bottles with Soviet stars on the top. Coke agreed to the deal, and Zh
It's been suggested that President Harry Truman was actually involved in the Coca-Cola operation, though we haven't confirmed this.
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