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For the commander of which organisation did the Coca Cola Company make White Coke?
White Coke was a clear variant of Coca-Cola produced in the 1940s at the request of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov.
Marshal Zhukov, commander of the Red Army that had defeated Nazi Germany in 1945, was introduced to Coca-Cola by US General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was a Coca-Cola fan. Zhukov became addicted to Coca-Cola but, because it was regarded in the USSR as a symbol of American imperialism, he was reluctant to be seen consuming it. Apparently Zhukov enquired of the US military whether Coca-Cola could be manufactured and packaged to resemble vodka, and the request was eventually passed on to US President Harry S. Truman. The President's staff contacted the chairman of the Board of the Coca-Cola Export Corporation who was overseeing the establishment of Coca-Cola plants in Austria. Zhukov's special order reached Mladin Zarubica, a technical supervisor who had been sent to Austria in 1946 to supervise the establishment of a large bottling plant. Zarubica found a chemist who could remove the colouring from Coca-Cola without changing the flavour.
The colourless version of Coca-Cola was bottled using straight, clear glass bottles with a white cap and a red star in the middle. The bottle and the cap were produced by the Crown Cork and Seal Company in Brussels. The first shipment of White Coke consisted of 50 cases and, while goods entering the Soviet zone normally took weeks to be cleared by the authorities, Coca-Cola shipments were never stopped.
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