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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Stalin had a guy (Anastas Mikoyan) whose only job was to go to America and copy how they make hamburgers

Sebastian Gorka at the 2019 CPAC convention: “they want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.”

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Kenosha Kid, Antifa Supersoldier, 101st Wine Dads Division @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Mr. Premier, we must not allow a smash burger gap

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Dalton @daltonherriott.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"When he returned, Mikoyan introduced a number of popular American consumer products to the Soviet Union, including American hamburgers, ice cream, corn flakes, popcorn, tomato juice, grapefruit and corn on the cob." I would make a man king if he introduced me to even half of that stuff

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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The original Hamburgler

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Any Doubts @anydoubts.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

He wasn't just "a guy"; he was the Minister of Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union and an old Bolshevik. He remained in power from Lenin to Brezhnev (40 years!). Mikoyan purchased the entire food production plants, as well as packaging containers and other equipment, in America. Not just "copy".

This image captures a historical moment from the 1950s in Cuba, featuring prominent political figures.
The photo shows Soviet politician Anastas Mikoyan in the center interacting with Cuban officials.
On the far right, Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara is visible, engaged in the conversation.
The image appears to be a press photograph documenting a diplomatic meeting during that era.
In the foreground is a vintage radio set labeled "SAST SAHLETTE."

Google Translate of Russian text:

So, if we carefully study Mikoyan's memoirs and literature on the development of the food industry in the USSR in the 1930s, we can conclude the following. "Stalin's favorite People's Commissar" brought us more than just ice cream, hamburgers, mayonnaise, champagne, and buns. He purchased factories for canning meat, fish, and vegetables (with recipes for each), as well as fruit juice factories. Factories producing rusks, biscuits, candies, and chocolate were acquired. We received cooked sausage, cornflakes, ketchup, condensed and powdered milk, and tea and coffee packaging machines from America. American factories for producing sugar from beets, the first machine milking machines, quick-freezing technology, dry ice, and household refrigerators appeared in the USSR... Mikoyan himself wrote about this many years later:
"It's unlikely that more could have been accomplished in two months than our group managed." But each of us later, and sometimes even now, forty years later! – finds in the life of our native country some signs, echoes, traces of the work we accomplished as a result of our trip to the United States in the fall of 1936.
For me, my stay in the United States turned out to be a university course in the food industry and the American economy. Without a higher education, I returned from there enriched, with significant knowledge and a plan to transfer the experience of a developed capitalist country to our country.

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Laszlo Panaflex @laszlopanaflexx.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So he infiltrated a McDonald's? Diabolical!

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It's Gloria! @smilodonichthys.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

wow he's just like me fr

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Jen Guernsey @jenguernsey.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I had no idea! Most interesting. Though I keep thinking perhaps instead nis nane should have been Ananas 😆

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The USSR had a love-hate relationship with the USA, and admired many things about American industry. Uncle Sam (paid with expropriated Ukrainian grain and Kazakh beef, leading to great famines) was happy to oblige in all things except naval engineering, which is why the Red Navy was so shit.

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Pope Francis II, Ghoulmaxxing @francisgasparini.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I'm in favor of reducing and perhaps eliminating red meat for me personally, and for society in general, but I am MASSIVELY in favor of beating these people with their own stick

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bored loser @loserbored.com · 28/02/2026

Just proves beef is communist. As a true Patriot I only eat RFK Jr. Liverburgers

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Snarky Panda @snarkypanda.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Isn't RFK telling us to eat liver instead of beef now?

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 28/02/2026

In Soviet Russia, you have it their way.

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Fustbariclation @fustbariclation.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

How very peculiar! They had real food in the Soviet Union, why would they want industrial junk?

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FREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Did not know this!

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Captain Bergatron @captbergatron.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It's wild that we even know the guys name. History will remember.

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Citizen Paul Templeman @paultempleman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

😂😂 Is that true? I dearly hope so. I read ‘Muppets in Moscow’ by Natasha Lance Rogoff, telling the story of how America tried to take Sesame Street to Russia. Highly recommended..

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 28/02/2026

Yes! And he was tasked with figuring out how to feed starving Soviets. He was the brains behind the cookbook, “The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food”. There’s a fascinating @99pi.org podcast episode about him & the book (and the hamburgers): 99percentinvisible.org/episode/453-...

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The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food - 99% Invisible

Officially titled The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food, it was often known simply as “Kniga” (translated: “book”) because it was one of the only cookbooks to exist in the Soviet Union. The volume is pep...

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Leonid Illyich Brezhnev @leobrezhnev.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Yeah he flipped burgers alright

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