Watch Mikhail Gorbachev star in a Pizza Hut commercial

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“Mr. Gorby!, tear into that pizza.”

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Second, he would not eat pizza on film. That disappointed Pizza Hut.

I mean, I don’t blame him. Even the former leader of the USSR knew that it wasn’t good.

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My Mandela-oblongata caused me to remember this as a McDonald’s advert.

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The most bonkers thing to me is that they transliterated “pizza” as “pitstsa”. Which, you know, sounds a little too close to one of their competitors.

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There was a lot of that going around in the mid-90s.

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