The Soviet Union had to assign 17 submarines and three surface ships with a total value of $ 3 billion to pay for fresh water for Pepsi in 1989.

The Pepsi Group has a net worth of more than $ 18.8 billion and its products are sold in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.

In 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower wanted to bring American culture to the Soviet Union by arranging to organize the "American National Exhibition" at Sokolniki Park in Moscow.

Prior to the exhibition, Pepsi marketing vice president Donald Kendall asked Nixon to help "introduce the corporation to Soviet leaders" and was agreed.

Kendall quickly runs to help Khrushchev and offers him a glass of soft drink.

In 1972, Pepsi reached an agreement with the Soviet Union to become the first Western product to be sold in the country.

The deal signed by the Soviet Union with Pepsi was expected to expire in the late 1980s. However, vodka was devalued at this time and could not be exchanged with Pepsi.

In May 1989, the Soviet government proposed an agreement to allow Pepsi to act as an intermediary in the project of dismantling and selling scrap metal 17 submarines and three surface ships including a cruiser, a destroyer and a

This historic agreement helped Pepsi own the sixth largest naval fleet in the world.

"We disarm the Soviet Union faster than you do," Donald Kendall stated bluntly in a conversation with US national security adviser Brent Scowcroft afterwards.