Who here lived in a communist country? Report!

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Azazel
This doesn't have much to do with cars, does it.

About cars, there were significant import tariffs, but at least you could import them. There were Italian cars here, some German cars, lots of Renault 4 and simmilar. Few luxury cars for the elite. Also motocycles.

Yugoslavia had its own auto industry which produced cars, trucks, buses, motocycles and everything else. It started with licenced FIAT models and ended in the now famous Yugo line of products

I am guessing it was very protected but the products were still better then most of their eastern counterparts.

Wartburg being one of the more solid cars from the East. Illustrative example though, as it was built in former BMW factory - it was much worse then contemporary BMW models.

Lots of Ladas were imported from SSSR and even a small number of Trabants. There were initially waiting lines for cars here, but much smaller then in Hungary where they had to wait for a Trabant, which was unthinkable here, and ridiculed. I'd sooner shoot myself then drive a Trabant thank you

[Az]

I know that you could import that. That's the way my father got the Ford Taunus. great car, btw.

[VetLegion]

Did he drive it all the way back to Georgia? Which way did he drive, through Turkey or SSSR? Or was it by ship?

[Az]

through the USSR.

[BeBMan]

Lived in Eastern Germany. Still live there, but it is not commieland anymore, which I prefer

Now I´m an Eurocom

[Az]

Obviously, the people that live now in Germany prefer the federal germany to the east germany. But the feelings of the people in the countries that are now 3rd world countries beg to differ.

[Serb]

Lenin.
Partiya.
Komsomol.

[VetLegion]

Azazel, based on your axiom, do you think our Sergej here is better off now or worse?

Partija

State owned factories

Yugoslavian communism

[Serb]

WOW, it's a nice looking flag.

Originally posted by VetLegion
Azazel, based on your axiom, do you think our Sergej here is better off now or worse?

What axiom?

[Heresson]

[SIZE=1] Originally posted by Sir Og

Oh! First Bulgarian Apolytoner.
Or first that I noticed....

By the way, I think my scn is the only one in which a Bulgarian civ appeared... I may be wrong, though.

[Serb]

It's party time for you now?
I remember when German newbie appeared here, you replied " Oh no, not another German"

Is something wrong with you? I thought you are hostile to new guys. Are you drunk or something?
(btw, Sir Og was here for quite a while
)

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Serb
WOW, it's a nice looking flag.

It is ok. Our anthem was the boring 'Hej slaveni' the Polish use also. SSSR had much better one, but that is the only thing you had better

What axiom?

Read his last sentence.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by VetLegion

There were initially waiting lines for cars here, but much smaller then in Hungary where they had to wait for a Trabant, which was unthinkable here, and ridiculed. I'd sooner shoot myself then drive a Trabant thank you

My parents had such a car

umm, Edited out the link, because of stupid popups there

Edit2: here´s a better pic .....

http://www.jasoncholt.com/prague/scanpics/trabant.jpg

[Harovan]

Nice car. Is his name Schorsch?

[VetLegion]

A band from Belgrade has a song about it. The words go something along the lines: /we had a trabant, but the pigs ate it/we use the engine now to cut firewood/But now we have a wartburg/and all the pigs broke their teeth/ ...

Plastic cars are the future I agree, but Trabant was a little too much ahead of its time.