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PepsiCo owned the sixth most powerful navy in the world after a 1989 barter deal with the Soviet Union.

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REFUTED
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Is it true that PepsiCo owned the sixth most powerful navy in the world after a 1989 barter deal with the Soviet Union?

No. Two sources directly address the 1989 PepsiCo-Soviet barter: a Wikipedia article calls the powerful-navy claim an erroneous factoid, noting the warships were small, old and unseaworthy, and a Skeptics StackExchange answer denies PepsiCo was the sixth largest military or navy. A third source allows only that PepsiCo may briefly have owned the sixth largest fleet of demilitarised submarines, calling the broader assertion poetic rather than factual.

Verdict: REFUTED · 0 sources for, 3 against · Last checked

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PepsiCo
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PepsiCo. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo

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Was PepsiCo really sixth largest military force?
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Was PepsiCo really sixth largest military force?. (n.d.). history.stackexchange.com. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/47831/was-pepsico-really-sixth-largest-military-force

Was the Pepsico company command the 6th biggest military in the world for a brief time?
2021
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Was the Pepsico company command the 6th biggest military in the world for a brief time?. (2021). skeptics.stackexchange.com. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50302/was-the-pepsico-company-command-the-6th-biggest-military-in-the-world-for-a-brie

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