My dad worked for Pepsi Co in the 1990's as a construction project manager in former Warsaw Pact countries, turning factories that had been making missiles into factories making Fritos and soda cans. He also worked for Pepsi for a few years in Sochi and Moscow. Eventually things got too hot for him to stay there, because he wouldn't play along with the increasing corruption. But he made some great friends in Russia and I got to meet a few of them when they came to visit the US. His interpreter, who has been living in exile in Holland for the last fifteen years or so, is still very close to my mom. Very kind people. Their leadership is screwing them.
My dad worked for Pepsi Co in the 1990's as a construction project manager in former Warsaw Pact countries, turning factories that had been making missiles into factories making Fritos and soda cans. He also worked for Pepsi for a few years in Sochi and Moscow. Eventually things got too hot for him to stay there, because he wouldn't play along with the increasing corruption. But he made some great friends in Russia and I got to meet a few of them when they came to visit the US. His interpreter, who has been living in exile in Holland for the last fifteen years or so, is still very close to my mom. Very kind people. Their leadership is screwing them.