What a Pizza Hut ad says about Gorbachev – and Russia
The former Soviet leader’s appearance in a 1998 pizza commercial played on his conflicted reputation. …
“We were looking for some way to use Gorbachev… as a source of controversy, and let the pizza bring people together. At least they could agree that he had brought them pizza, and that was a good thing,” one of the writers, Tom Derbyshire, told the BBC.