Matt Novak, aka @Paleofuture just tweeted that today, well, today, January 31, 1990 was the day that McDonald's first opened its doors in the then-Soviet Union, now Russia.
As novel as that thought was, even more interesting is Arizona State University graduate student and attorney John Carter McKnight's flickr feed of his 1989 attendance of the USSR's first rock festival.
Put on your time travel uniforms and enjoy.
[The Soviet Union in 1988-1989 by John Carter McKnight]
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