1945 finally passed in peace.

During this year, Soviet industry developed by leaps and bounds after absorbing the technology of the Axis powers, not only in terms of the quantity of production, but also in terms of technology and quality.

Some factories, after receiving the technology brought by the Axis powers, began to study the application of these technologies to their own products, so as to improve the production quality and production technology of their own products.

Under such circumstances, the Gorky Automobile Plant and the Stalin Automobile Plant in Moscow, which absorbed the technology of major German automobile manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, and Porsche, used the obtained technology to improve their own production lines, and launched new models such as ZIS-110 and GAZ-M20, as well as improved models such as ZIS-103 and GAZ-71-73.

There are also factories that simply copy German technology and produce some "knockoffs". With the tacit approval of the government, the Soviet version of the "National Radio" (the people's radio of the Novosibirsk Electronics Plant), the "Volkswagen Beetle" (the GAZ-M2 of the Gorky Automobile Plant) and other gadgets were created and began to seize the market of the USSR and its socialist allies.

The main reason for the popularity of these products was that they were able to adapt to the needs of the Soviet market.

At that time, the material life of the Soviet people was not rich, and not everyone could afford a radio or a car.

However, after the advent of the people's radio and the Soviet version of the "Beetle", the popularity of radios and automobiles in the Soviet Union increased sharply, because the production cost of the "national radio" and the "Beetle car" were much lower than those of similar products, and the selling price was much lower than that of ordinary similar products, and the number of people who could afford these things naturally increased.

The impact of the "national radio" on the Soviet Union and its socialist allies was undoubtedly enormous; it not only eliminated some of the original radios, but also increased the popularity of radios, strengthened the propaganda efficiency of propaganda and radio and television organizations, and enabled the propaganda of the party and government to reach the ears of the general public through atmospheric radio waves, thus enhancing the ability of the masses of the people to receive information.

In addition to the people's radio and the Beetle car, there was one product that had a huge impact on the entire Eastern world.

Even in the 21st century, this product is still known to the world, and sales continue unabated, and almost everyone living in cities around the world has drunk this orange-flavored drink from Nazi Germany.

Speaking of which, it is estimated that many bigwigs who are familiar with history should also guess what this is. That's right, this popular product in the Soviet Union is the famous Fanta!

Many people think that Fanta was invented by the Americans, but in fact, the birthplace of this orange soda was not in the United States, but in Nazi Germany under Hitler. So how did this drink come about?

After the outbreak of World War II, as the relationship between the United States and Nazi Germany began to strain, the German Coca-Cola Company was no longer able to obtain the main syrup raw materials for the production of cola from the United States, resulting in the German Coca-Cola Company being unable to produce the original cola products.

In order to keep the factory running and the workers subsisting, Max Kate, the head of Coca-Cola, Germany, had to create a new drink called Fanta using whey and coloring, which were only available in Germany. The drink was soon produced on the production line of the Coca-Cola factory in Germany, and later became one of the most popular drinks in Nazi Germany.

After the Soviet occupation of Germany, all of the technical documentation and production equipment of the German Coca-Cola Company were removed by the Soviet industrial demolition department as punishment for its service to Nazi German propaganda (Volkswagen and the manufacturer of national radios were also subjected to the same treatment).

All the equipment for the production of Fanta was transported to the territory of the Soviet Union and, under Manturov's arrangement, received by a food processing plant in Novosibirsk, began to operate at the end of 1945.

Of course, in order to cater to the political needs of the Soviet Union, the newly produced "Fanta" (the name was too lazy to change) was packaged with revolutionary elements (such as a sickle, a hammer, Stalin's head, etc.), and the new advertising also added socialist slogans, turning Fanta, a drink that was originally full of capitalist characteristics, into one of the elements of socialist culture.

Since its launch in 1945, Fanta has conquered the entire Soviet market and expanded into other socialist and neutral countries. But at the same time as the hot sales, some people familiar with the matter are also complaining about the "copycat behavior" of the Novosibirsk soda factory (the manufacturer that produces Fanta).

Soon after, when these opinions were submitted to the party secretary of the factory, the factory quickly thought of a way to clear the "copycat charge", that is, to introduce other fruit-flavored soda drinks (including apple-flavored, grape-flavored, etc.).

At the beginning of 1946, the grape-flavored Fanta began to be introduced to the market, followed by lemon-flavored and apple-flavored sodas, which made the Soviet people drink soda decades earlier.

As a time-traveler from the 21st century, Manturov still feels a little out of tune with this phenomenon.

But in any case, being able to drink cold orange-flavored Fanta on a hot summer day in 1946 was also a simple treat to some extent. Coupled with the beautiful women around him and the beautiful scenery on the banks of the Neva River, he felt like he was in paradise.

"Vorodia, if it weren't for you, when would the Soviet people have had the opportunity to drink Fanta?"

Manturov took Katya's jade hand, smelled the feminine scent emanating from Katya's body, and said: "If you are an ordinary worker, you will have to wait at least forty years, and if you are a bureaucrat, you should be able to get it in a privileged store in twenty or thirty years, but the price should not be cheap." ”

"Before, I didn't notice much change in our country and history, because from the perspective of an ordinary citizen, the country's economic figures, changes in the territory, changes in the situation, and changes in the political arena are all things that are out of reach. Not everyone can feel it directly, and not everyone cares.

This change is no longer noticeable when we leave the battlefield, leave the government office, and return home.

But culture and food are different, and any change in culture and lifestyle will affect the way people live across the country. This lifestyle and cultural change can affect people's lives at every level, and can be perceived and felt at all levels. Katia was also struck by this phenomenon, and she had never been able to truly feel the change in history as she did today.