Let's all remember the time Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial

Post-Cold War Russia has been a country lacking in identity, trying to figure out how to move forward comfortably into the 21st century. Naturally, in 1997, a Pizza Hut commercial starring former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev once captured this sentiment perfectly and remains relevant.

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