Video - Pepsi's Brief Stint as a Naval Superpower!
Pepsi's Legendary Fleet Back in the late 1980s, something incredibly bizarre happened - the Pepsi company ended up accidentally owning the 6th largest military fleet on the entire planet! It all started when Pepsi signed a deal to sell their sodas in the Soviet Union. The Soviet people loved Pepsi so much that the company was owed a whopping 3 billion dollars. But the Soviets didn't have that kind of money to pay them back. So instead of cash, the Soviets offered to pay Pepsi with something a little...different. They traded Pepsi 17 massive Soviet submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a bunch of other warships! Just like that, the Pepsi corporation instantly went from a regular soda company to operating the 6th biggest military navy in the world. They had more firepower than two-thirds of the world's nations! Can you imagine - Pepsi delivery trucks rolling up to grocery stores while Soviet submarine escorts tagged along? Or Pepsi declaring an all-out "Cola War" against their big rivals Coca-Cola? Of course, Pepsi didn't really want to be in the military business. So they quickly sold off their brand new navy fleet to a Swedish company that scrapped and recycled the whole thing. But for a brief, bizarre moment in history, the Pepsi cola corporation was a major global military superpower - all thanks to the Soviet Union's insatiable thirst for their delicious carbonated beverages!