The picture of a McDonald's in Russia is one the finest examples of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of
Perestroika.
Perestroika was a reformist political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Literally translated as 'Restructuring' Mikhail Gorbachev and many of his colleagues believed that the Soviet Union required urgent social and economic reforms to grow and strengthen the country.
It led to the opening up of Russia, more economic freedom and even a move towards democracy.
Historians cite the policy as one the leading causes for the fall of the Soviet Union.
