San Francisco, California

36. Lenin Drinking Coca-Cola


Rodolfo Tejera

Silkscreen, 1980s

San Francisco, California

10023

    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian revolutionary and the first head of the Soviet Union, is shown drinking a coke. Designed by a Cuban artist while in the U. S., the artist is making an ironic statement about the attraction of “forbidden” Western products. In 1972, Pepsi signed an agreement with the Soviet Union that made it the first Western product to be sold to Russian consumers. Coca Cola was considered synonymous with capitalism, and was only legally sold in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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