Generals Eisenhower, Montgomery, and Zhukov toast victory together. Ike Eisenhower was a heavy Coca-Cola drinker and wanted it for his soldiers too. By the end of the war, the US Army had consumed 5 billion bottles of Coca-Cola, produced at 64 production sites worldwide. Georgy Zhukov also enjoyed the Coca-Cola, which the Americans shipped in abundance to the Soviet Union during the conflict. But with the rise of the Iron Curtain, the Yankee soft drink was banned across the Iron Curtain. To please Zhukov, the Truman administration ordered a covert operation to manufacture a special, limited batch of 50 cases of clear Coca-Cola for Zhukov, which could be passed off as vodka to pass through Soviet security. It was also packaged in square bottles with white caps bearing a red star.
