Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday. When the Soviet Union ended in 1991, a spate of American businesses entered Russia. In 1997, while an economic transition was ...
The commercial only aired internationally, as Gorbachev was, and still is, a controversial figure in Russia, with some lamenting the fall of the Soviet Union under his watch and others praising his ...
Tom Darbyshire, right, poses with former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev during the filming of a Pizza Hut commercial in Moscow.(Tom Darbyshire) In 1997, Tom Darbyshire made the pitch. He had the ...