Why Communists Sucked at Making Cars | WheelHouse

[@LifeofBoris]

nice music you have there

[@ryanalfe2146]

nice it’s boris

[@jhusty5594]

is it real boris !??!?

[@da_rektor3958]

Hello Boris

[@alrizal8953]

ITSSSSS BORISS

[@5cylinderdreamz]

Hey Boris you should get an rs1000

[@AsbestosMuffins]

"I didn't order a convertable!" "Let me see something, ah yes car was made on friday." "What does that have to do with it!" "Factory only has roofs on first three days of week."

[@gratefuldean69]

Hahaha

[@kylepirko9251]

@Jakub Komárek that's cool to know, my man. Thanks!

[@yeyliz2161]

convertible*

[@atarvhegde5210]

At least , the rich people in ussr had choice of ZIL Limosines, In India , we followed the soviet model and that made importing cars illegal. Due to all this socialist shit , Indians had no options. Only in 90s, after USSR collapsed , liberization happened.

[@garage5125]

chevrolet was making limousines that all of them were convertible. they were all converting to ,, roof of" faster than any todays cars. all you needed to do was crash into lada, and the roof came off in split second:-))

[@adamzalabai]

Do Up to Speed on Lada. We really need it.

[@metallicarchaea1820]

Honestly they need an Up to Speed on Lada before an UtS on Prius like so many people ask for.

[@marcik.8471]

@@metallicarchaea1820 fucking definetly. But the americans don't really know about the magic of Ladas. Especially VFTSs.

[@FluffyL3vy]

@@marcik.8471 Americans don't know about how Moskvitch raped everyone at 68' Rally.

[@weezy1989]

The most bullet proof car ever made.. I'm from Jamaica and have never seen one down n out. The freaking body with fall off around the engine haha #greatness

[@Piotr94L]

@@marcik.8471 VFTS and Rotary too

[@paulromsky9527]

I had a girlfriend who grew up in Minsk in the 60s,70s,80s. She was not a techie at all, but she had a great knowledge of automobiles. She told me, because of the lack of repair garages and the poor roads in Belarus (part of the Soviet Union back then), you had to learn how to do basic maintenance on your own car before you could drive. She was taught the basic knowledge of every part of the car in high school - if you wanted to drive you needed to pass that class. Tune up, oil change, change tire, coolant maintenance, brake inspection/replace, inspect wires and ignition, clean and gap spark plugs, chassis lube, clean air/oil filters... they reused oil filters, tighten bolts... the list went on.

[@jonathanng138]

You must be a baby boomer then

[@matthewevans3718]

Wish I had that class in high school

[@BatCaveOz]

It is weird that it took her three decades to grow up.

[@matthewevans3718]

@@BatCaveOz lol

[@paulromsky9527]

@@BatCaveOz ​ She was 5 in 1968, 15 in 1978, and 20 in 1983. So that is what I call growing up (ages 5 to 20), before that you are a very young child, after that you are an adult. So, she grew up in the 60's, 70's and 80's... not weird at all.

[@cvetomirgeorgiev9106]

I live in Bulgaria and it's impossible to go to a village without seeing a Lada, Moskvich or a Trabant. Old people genuinely love them and you can get them second hand for dirt cheap.

[@gabrielnascimento1021]

I have half bottle of Vodka Ok it's yours

[@cvetomirgeorgiev9106]

@@gabrielnascimento1021 honestly you could probably buy one for a few bottles of Rakija

[@cvetomirgeorgiev9106]

@@znj4450 well I'm not legally allowed to drink it since I'm 15 but that doesn't stop me

[@rafsccp]

ladas are worthing over 10k euros lol

[@reelne]

​@@rafsccp where are they worth 10k lol? Dunno bout germany and other nice countries, but here in Russia you can get one for literally 300 euros in good condition. It's a shitty car tho, mostly used by teenagers to drift.

[@Rimonds]

Hi guys, I'm from Latvia. Before 1991 we ware a part of USSR. My granddad got a car after 12 years of waiting in line. When I was 10 he thought me how to drive, it was his beloved LADA VAZ- 21076. It's a light 4 cylinder 1.6L 75Hp rear-wheel drive 5-speed manual car that was simply AMAZING, omg that feel of those cars is insanely cool. I got it as my first car at age of 20 when I got my drivers license. I still have the car as my second car. Great cars but anything above 120kmh/75 mph is scary :D You really feel the speed in that thing and brake are horrible. :D

[@kingpotato7183]

Over 20 years and the car still works

[@j_rivera2007]

Wait ✅-small 1.6 liter engine ✅-manual ✅-rwd ✅-light Yep basically a Miata

[@Darkest_matter]

@@kingpotato7183 yeah I'd expect the car to work 20 years down the line

[@demonrat9667]

Lol imagine having to wait 12 years to be able to get a car... i got my first car before i could legally drive in America lol... my elderly neighbor had a 74 buick electra that sat under his car port for years. I mowed his lawn and other lawns in the neighborhood the summer of my freshman year in high school and bought the car for 600 dollars. Then I worked on the car myself and got it into running order and started driving it just out on country dirt roads to learn how to drive... and when I turned like 14 or 15 i got my learners permit and 16 i got my actual drivers license... in capitalism a child can own a car... under communism and adult has to wait 12 years to even be able to have a car LOLOL

[@nikosk.8216]

@@dougerrohmer So true. Cuba really had balls. Making a country standing on it's own on embargo is serius tough.

[@S314159265358979]

I lived in USSR for 20 years since I was born, but never saw that MELKUS sport car you mentioned. Now I see why: it was produced in eastern Germany. These things never reached the mainland of USSR.

[@Booruvcheek]

When I was a kid in USSR in the 80's, one of my favorite pastimes was to learn and be able to recognize all car models, not just by the way they looked, but by their sound. So I could tell whether it was a Volga or a Moskvich / Izh driving by my window without looking. It wasn't hard. There were about 10 models, I guess, on the street. I remember my own excitement, when newer models, like VAZ 2108/2109, Moskvich 2141 and Tavria started showing up. But I have never, ever seen Melkus. I would probably jump out of my pants, that's how fast I would run to see that car. Nope. All I could see were the usual cars: ZAZ-968 (and, occasionally, older ZAZ-965, I still like how it looks), Moskvich 2140, sometimes a Moskvich 408 or Moskvich 412 would show up (hey! it had fins! I used to like these cars because of their taillights). Then there were IZh cars, this factory was a Moskvich (AZLK) offshoot, so they shared a lot. Like there was Moskvich 412, and there was IZh-412. But there were other models, like station wagon IZh-2125. VAZ cars (Ladas) were numerous, of course - VAZ-2101 (including 21011 and 21013), VAZ-2102, VAZ-2103, (then) newer VAZ-2104, 2105, 2106 and "Mercedes wannabe" VAZ-2107. Volgas, like GAZ-24 (or even older GAZ-21) were far fewer in number, but it surprisingly, they were used as taxis (by state taxi companies, the only taxi companies). GAZ also produced "executive-class" cars, like Chaika ("Seagull") GAZ-M13 and GAZ-14, but those were rare sights on the street. When I was a kid I kept hearing you could rent one for wedding. Can't tell if that was true or how hard would that be (note: not "how expensive", but "how hard would it be to get all the approvals and permissions"). As you can see, not that many models, especially considering that some (like the ever popular VAZ-2101, VAZ-21011 and VAZ-21013) were essentially the same model with different engine options or trim levels. In addition, they were not that much different, like 1.2L or 1.3L engine variations.

[@palpits3729]

wheres the latvia car

[@S314159265358979]

@@Booruvcheek we as kids were betting on certain car model and start counting, there weren't many of them)) and all the same trash

[@Tiger-lg5of]

Theres a good USSR video on YT about SKODA history.

[@gotoban4360]

it was german not soviet

[@SiqueScarface]

The Melkus 1000RS was the project of a guy named Heinz Melkus in Dresden, East Germany. His small company was a car dealership, had a driving school, and Heinz Melkus and his sons were racing drivers, building and driving their own cars like the SRG MT 77, an open wheel car with the engine of the Lada/Fiat 124 and the gearbox of the Wartburg 311. The Melkus 1000RS used the 3cyl 2stroke engine of the Wartburg 353 and also its front screen.

[@skulldude101]

cool info

[@mishyDism]

Fun story. My grandad from Kiev got lucky and got a Volga without the waiting list because he was a scientist. The day he exited the factory, multiple people were waiting outside to offer to buy it. One person even offered 3 times the original price. But my grandad said no and kept it for himself which I respect :D

[@Nemo7The7Pirate7]

Amazing. I would expect at least somebody in that group offer your granddad's life for it. Crime was very low at those times I guess.

[@skflwphgaawfas7402]

No it wasn't. It was just overlooked or bypassed by the media to make "the more progressive country, which is socialist" look better than others. Fun fact: in today's russia nothing has changed

[@julianpetkov8320]

@@Nemo7The7Pirate7 Don't know about Ukraine, but in Bulgaria you could leave your door unlocked, unless you lived next to the Gypsy Mahal, but even that wasn't too risky. Crime was rare because there were no drugs and most people had to be at work.

[@kineticmusiclines]

@@julianpetkov8320 Crime was state run at the time. ...as a Pole I know it well.

[@vadimnesen8060]

@@kineticmusiclines that sumerizes ussr

[@andrewnardo1021]

It’s 2019 and Igor the machinist is still waiting for his car.

[@abrunosON]

Igor is a pos for not attending the 1969 neighbor's local party leader event. How dare he monopolize his time to help his sick dying mom and starved son? Doesn't he know that his time is the people's time?

[@daihatsumidget2700]

2020 now

[@buildawall5803]

Boi i got some news 4 u

[@Ultrase7en767]

Trust me I'm an engineer

[@IgorsWoodCrafts]

I confirm

[@r3b1rth53]

As a Russian, I've never been that offended with something I completely agree with

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

LOL respect to people who lived under soviet lands. but to be fair most people around the world were starving last thing they cared about was a means of transportation.

[@AndreAndFriends]

It was all Polish fault. Only if we tried little harder, the Warsaw Pact would rule the world. Now the USA is the new CCCP. Tovarish Beijing Biden.

[@polentusmax6100]

@@AndreAndFriends Ah yes, poland to rule the world, i guess you had to start another world war to get this

[@AndreAndFriends]

@@polentusmax6100 what?

[@polentusmax6100]

@@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx i would buy a car if a were in those comunist countries too, since food was rationated. You can always find a lot of oportunities where nobody have a car to move stuff around. And the resale value was amazing in those countries, so a car was a investment.

[@tepesvoda464]

A Moskwich owner goes to an auto parts store: Hei, can I have a fuel cap for my Moskwich? Store keeper thinks for a moment, then nods and says: Ok. That sounds like a fair exchange.

[@gamewizard1760]

Moskvich cars were much lower priced than other cars of the USSR, so they were affordable to many who wouldn't have even been able to get a Lada, and it was planned that way. Moskvich made affordable cars, Lada was the mid range, and Volga was the top tier. There were niche market cars, like the limousines that high ranking party officials used, but you couldn't buy those as a member of the public. Even if they were available to the public, the price would have been so high, that you wouldn't have been able to afford one on a workers pay. They were the Rolls Royces and Bentleys of the USSR.

[@cristianghidireac7628]

“All people are equal, but some are more equal than others”

[@Jent1466]

Animal farm

[@Cofimaslisa]

capitalism

[@szymusu]

@@Cofimaslisa ?

[@Cofimaslisa]

@@szymusu in capitalism, people are equal to each other(poor) and some are more equal(rich bilionaires gaining because we are poor)

[@testaccount4191]

@@Cofimaslisa I don't think you have read animal farm

[@Alorand]

How can you not even mention the Lada Niva? It was winning races and selling like hotcakes in Western Europe. It was amazing for it's time.

[@generalhorse493]

Apparently it couldn't drive over a little sapling without blowing out the oil in it's engine. If Top Gear is to be believed.

[@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и]

@@generalhorse493 They was BS-ing this car. Did you forget - how they was BS about low living battery in Tesla Roadster?!

[@generalhorse493]

@@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и Interesting, considering it was the soviet car they liked the most out of the whole bunch.

[@valerkand9270]

@@generalhorse493 Yeah, they're BSing. Those Nivas are actually really capable of going offroad

[@generalhorse493]

@@valerkand9270 The one featured was doing a great job offroad, it's puny engine just got stopped by a rogue sapling.

[@moonsapling]

Whatever soviet car you get, you go offroad with it.

[@nicolapalmieri7344]

Yugo offroad with it

[@nicolapalmieri7344]

Get it?

[@lcl0082]

@@nicolapalmieri7344 Get out (jk lol)

[@peteeraste5097]

Wherever you go in Russia, you can call it an off-road journey.

[@nicolapalmieri7344]

@@peteeraste5097 nyet, you call it Group B Rally Stage

[@fraser21]

I know you won't get this from a car channel, but in fairness the cities were also designed to be a lot more livable without everyone needing their own car

[@troyc4841]

In my country the design is that the car is a necessity as there is limited public transport and all jobs are 50 + miles away. you cannot live close to job because you cannot afford.

[@jamesray1439]

I knew I’d find an r/communism nerd. Listen bud, capitalism won the Cold War. Hell had it not been for Lend Lease in the 40’s, communist wouldn’t have survived WW2.

[@jamesray1439]

@@fraser21 communism worked so well it needed the capitalist west to financially save it multiple times.

[@goiabagamer5551]

yes, people lived like 10 minutes of walk from their job

[@urabus5363]

I was gonna say the USSR had really good public transport so there was basically no need for a car.

[@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559]

AWD is the communism of engine power distribution

[@bibasik7]

Except it actually works.

[@ignoolio12nera96]

Not to be drivingwheelsnazi that would be 4wd with all diffs closed

[@averageboi5195]

No that would be 4wd

[@samantoniak1657]

Actually I think open all wheel drive is a good analogy. the wheel doing the least work gets the most power.

[@aurandon]

Sam Antoniak this is savage

[@darius2640]

Imagine being among those 4% who got a car tho. No traffic jams, park in two spaces sideways where you want, thats the life

[@Random-nf7qb]

Not quite, cities weren't built for cars - no parking spots, big fines, narrow streets... Plus parts were hard to find - wipers and mirrors were stolen.

[@Donax695]

meanwhile back in a day my fam in Czechoslovakia had three fiats and nobody found it weird :D

[@MetalTrabant]

You can still get that feeling in North Korea...

[@drumyogi9281]

Eh not really. The black market was very, very high. For instance before the fall of the USSR upwards of 80% of commerce was black market in Romania. Your car would probably be keyed if you were a civilian or worse, stolen and scrapped for metal due to envy.

[@blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602]

*gets sent to gulag

[@IceMan-il7dx]

Soviets best engineers built rockets. The flunkies were sent to build cars.

[@savagetuner2404]

Ice Man their best engineers weren’t from Russia.

[@gabrielnascimento1021]

@@savagetuner2404 their best engineers were probably from Eastern Germany

[@savagetuner2404]

Gabriel Nascimento oy vey, they knew who to get

[@hardworker5588]

And the flunkies STILL just copied western cars. AOCommunist needs to move to Cuba to experience her workers paradise. Why do I think that instead of that she'll just be given her own show on MSNBC pulling down 3 mil per year and living like 18th century European aristocracy.

[@savagetuner2404]

HARD WORKER that sums it up right there.

[@augustsutherland2962]

It's really a totally opposite attitude to the US at the time. These cars are slow and not luxurious but they're built for DIRT CHEAP and are fairly reliable. This makes it the most practical option for a country that had Just gotten out of feudalism 50 years before, and industrialized only 10-20 years after that. It's easy to look at it as bad from a vantage in the US but for the soviets to even be making these by the mid 20th century is a testament to the strengths of a communist government(not that there aren't a good few weaknesses too.)

[@erikcapozzi3425]

America isn't that old and they just had a civil war before 2 world wars..one of which they supplied 75% of allied goods

[@claudiobizama5603]

Funfact: Auto VAZ/Lada made a Wankel Rotary engine for the 2101 and the Samara, some with twin or 3 rotors. But it was exclusive to police or KGB agents.

[@spikespiegel5878]

a VAZda?

[@Piotr94L]

You mean VAZ (Lada) 21018 (single rotor) and 21019/21057 2 rotor. 3 Rotor was only in GAZ 24 Wolga

[@AkeemKerimov]

And they still make those engines. You can buy one for smth like 650 dollars. With carburetor :)

[@eziiii]

@@AkeemKerimov Where can I get one?

[@sneakysnake7695]

@@AkeemKerimov I know where to get replacements for an RX7 lol

[@gunya0]

RWD Ladas are still popular in Russia as dirt-cheap missile cars for ice drifting. And yeah, we have ice drifting championships here and classic ladas are the one of the best cars for that because of slim 13 inch tires and low weight.

[@blackcountryme]

We get Russian dashcam shows in the UK, Lada's are used as missiles to crash into other cars!

[@2bitmarketanarchist337]

Sounds like a lot of fun

[@alexandrvasilev2865]

@@blackcountryme that is a national sport! Like russian roulette

[@danon7646]

Ladas using everywhere

[@gunya0]

@@2bitmarketanarchist337 Sure it is! Here is a couple of videos kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2KpdaSeiaesp9E kzbin.info/www/bejne/emenoHmebZiUaZo

[@gabrielmoreira3453]

Designer: My design Communists: our design

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

Our *Stolen design

[@RIVERS2504]

@@ranjanbiswas3233 Someone doesn't know the meme

[@IsaakHunt]

Nope - "people's design"

[@p0tat0boi19]

I know the meme

[@ranjanbiswas3233]

@@RIVERS2504 I know, that's why I told stolen to make it dark humor.

[@Unfassbarer]

Danke!

[@ruscaryt4480]

my grandpa has lada. lada drives good. as comrade Boris once said, "you drive into deer, you make shashlik."

[@mrbiggiecheese312]

He said moose

[@ruscaryt4480]

moose is overrated

[@noone-io4yj]

He also said "VAAADIM BLYAT"

[@darkinstinct420]

@@ruscaryt4480 ты русский? Я азербайджанский

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

Shish Kebab?

[@wiktorjachyra1869]

The joke at the beginning was a joke that Ronald Regan made btw

[@coleprivett9125]

So its basically about plumbers taking a while to come work?

[@wiktorjachyra1869]

@@coleprivett9125 no, it's about how it was making fun of the late timing of the delivery

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

This was a joke that people in the USSR said. Reagan got quite a lot translated for his speeches Another one : Once, Gorbachev was late for a meeting. He asked his driver to sit on the rear seat and drive himself, and started speeding. The car was seen by 2 cops on bikes, one of them starts chasing the car, then comes back to his partner "so, did you fine him ?" "no, no, he's too high profile, too important" "we were told to fine everyone, who was it ?" "I did not recognise him. But his driver was Gorbachev"

[@mrh0ck3y]

@@Duke_of_Lorraine see, I understand your joke. In still don't get the plumber joke.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

@@mrh0ck3y it's about the massive shortages for everything. You need to go through a 10-years waiting list to get your car (it was real give or take a few years, to give you an idea about how civilian car production was unable of following the demand) ? The joke is it's the same even for something as basic as a plumber. This was a joke soviet citizens told, Reagan had them collected and translated. A good way of showing how greater America was compared to the USSR. A man enters the office of a KGB agent "good afternoon, sir, I want to signal the theft of my pet parrot" "sir, we are the KGB here. For a theft, you need to signal to the police" "it's already done, but I want to tell that should my parrot be found, I strongly disagree with anything my parrot might say"

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

At least they used the metric system.

[@savagetuner2404]

I'm Not Using My Real Name which got them to the moon right Edit: The clowns directly below don't realize they switched to metric AFTER they landed on the moon. Total idiots.

[@steppewop]

@@savagetuner2404 NASA uses metric.

[@astaldo]

Daniel NASA used imperial to get the moon and later switched to metric

[@MrBingping]

Not very well...

[@BaxterRoss]

Go away commie

[@JaredZorg]

The entire industry of the USSR developed during the war. The industrialization that Stalin carried out in anticipation of aggression from the bourgeois states was all with the expectation that soon the USSR would be attacked. Therefore, all svoet products have pronounced features (Simplicity and reliability) don't care about comfort and aesthetics, the main thing is that everything should be simple and reliable! This is how Soviet cars were created. Western engineering is not designed for Russian roads or weather. Many small details and the complexity of the design make the car fragile at extreme temperatures and impossible to repair the car by yourself. If you are driving through the Siberian taiga in the middle of winter and your beautiful and comfortable car breaks down, you are dead. The Soviet car is made in such a way that even if it breaks down you can fix it yourself with a piece of shit and a stick. If you are in Russia and prefer comfort over safety, rest in peace.

[@QCJSiteB]

"Everyone is equal!.....except for me, this is my special car...........go back to work"

[@TraustiGeir]

While all the animals were equal, some were more equal than others.

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

Capitalism is when the corporations enslaves the state. Communism is when the state becomes a corporation.

[@tony_5156]

TraustiGeir animals vs civilized man Apples and oranges kid Try Try again

[@TraustiGeir]

@@tony_5156 I see you haven't read much of Orwell's work. That was a quote from his book, "Animal Farm".

[@jannadrielcervo7753]

@@TenorCantusFirmus Fair enough.

[@thedandydandyyoutubechanny1847]

that joke was from ronnie regan who got it straight from gorbachev

[@K3mrM]

Mind to explain it? I just dont get the joke

[@thedandydandyyoutubechanny1847]

K3mrM the short version is that the plumber is coming in 10 years

[@sethmurphy531]

Daaang I just got that lol thank you!

[@kwanlinus6999]

Under Communism, wait for everything

[@zejdland]

@@K3mrM it's a joke about communist bureaucracy and the waiting lists

[@maitsepolitsei]

As somebody who was lived in USSR it is nice to see someone from forign country to have interest about our past and culture. Basic knowledge in this video was correct but I think I should comment some points. The thing is: despite new car with purchase licence via workers union might took really 7-10 years like You said there was many other options as well - and not only corrupted way what You mentioned. 1) used car - both private persons and state owned companies was able to sell their used cars and privat persons typically could buy them freely. 2) all new cars did not required licence for buying - small car zaz was most times available without any restriction, also during 80s there was the same case with other manufacturer Moschvich. 3) there was huge amount of cars what was owened by state owned companies but in reality nobody was banned their usage for private purposes - all kind of micro buses, light trucks, taxies etc. 4) people who had relatives in west or personal access to there (like ship stuff) had possibility to import western car, they was not banned in USSR, just complicated to keep alive without proper servicing. So.. despite there was some limiatations - it was actually like 50% easier to use or own car in USSR than this video points out :)

[@KrotowX]

Thanks about correction. As one who lived in USSR too I can agree with that. It still was very hard to get a car for average guy without connections and some notable amount of money.

[@90boiler]

Ant still 1000 times harder to get a damn car (or a normal washing machine, or a proper TV) than in any normal wester country.

[@YoutubeUser-nd8qv]

@@90boiler Seems we need that now, as we are fucking up the globe with this insane consuming festival we have going on. Nobody should be allowed to buy a new phone every year etc. but the whole economy would collapse if people would not buy new stuff all the time. Failed model.

[@doboziandras8935]

@@KZbinUser-nd8qv You right.

[@1mfilms]

@@KZbinUser-nd8qv You don't have to buy a new phone every year (actually, every other year is the norm). I know plenty of people that hold onto their phone for years. BUT innovative new features and excellent deals makes getting a new phone that more attractive. And it's great we all have the option to buy a new phone easily or just keep the one we have for years.

[@TOFKAS01]

8:55 Funfact: Melkus was one of the few privat companies in the GDR. And its still existing. For example, Ronny Melkus was a teammate of Ralf Schumacher in Formula 3.

[@TheKubyk]

and it was made from Wartburg 353. 51kW, 0-100 12 seconds

[@rainer2810]

A Melkus RS 1000 GTR had 90 -100 HP from a three cylinder Wartburg 2stroke Engine. The car was handcrafted in the GDR.

[@Cooliohenrik]

0-60 in 55 seconds........... what am i complaining about that i have in 8 seconds 0-60

[@ventil9446]

What car?

[@nicolapalmieri7344]

@@ventil9446 the Moskvich 400

[@savagetuner2404]

Evil Morty that’s communism for ya.

[@alterbr33d]

And that's full throttle. What if you want to relax a little and put your foot down halfway?

[@peterpeterson4800]

In that time, going 96,5606km/h is either very fast, or practically impossible due to the roads. The top speed limit is still around 100 km/h in many places around the world today, so most of the time, it makes no differnce. Apart from the car beating itself to death when it's always going at it's top speed.

[@GrantMC2]

The Volga is like the rolls royce of Russian cars, I get super excited when I see one in my home country, but they are pretty rare now

[@bittegibeinennamenan5576]

What about GAZ-13 Chaika or GAZ-M20 Pobeda?

[@wetlettuce4768]

The Chaika was the Rolls Royce of the Soviet Union, Volga is more like a Merc E class.

[@ashkira2]

@@wetlettuce4768 Rolls-Royce analog was Zil, Chaika's 13 and 14 was cheaper version.

[@David-cy5zu]

Alleyup1994USA us car 400 cubic inches 130 horse’s

[@larsnothnick5736]

The Wolga was the Taxi brand in east germany.

[@rikkee5157]

In Soviet Russia You don't own a car, car owns you

[@mcbridemotorsports]

100%

[@_Anthony___]

Not True

[@yousefkiller1293]

Generic Soviet stfu

[@Giwrgoschico]

Whaaaat?

[@aperson-ci8nj]

Your joke stink booooo!!!

[@harrold.j.marakta.1505]

5:31 you have Finland on the Soviet map even though it was just part of it for 1 or 2 years we became independent in 1917 and haven't been a part of Russia ever since

[@MrPlowboy66]

USSR. Third world living conditions,with a first world military.

[@totalignoranceinc]

And yet we follow their example by spending more than the next 7 countries combined on our military while our infrastructure crumbles. Oh and were also fighting a never ending war in Afghanistan you know the same thing that financially destroyed the ussr

[@MrPlowboy66]

@@totalignoranceinc our infrastructure crumbles bc it's the easiest way politicians can milk money from the system. Obama spent 787 bil. On infrastructure.

[@anthony-li5hp]

@@totalignoranceinc but the commies were there to fight an enemy. were there for profit and political favors from Israel. and we spend more than the next 7 countries because we have to protect all the pussys in the nato because there communist/socialist economys cant afford there own military.

[@timothybennett0313]

@@totalignoranceinc yet our infrastructure is ten times better than there's as well as our military. Also GDP at $19 trillion where we only spend about half a trillion on military. We don't fix our infrastructure because we can't. Communist AOC wants to have 90% marginal tax but that will ruin the country. America is the best military and economy.

[@PaulRudd1941]

@@timothybennett0313 you misspelled "theirs" mate. Plus you provide no sources for your comment. Your credibility is as good as Mr. Trumps

[@johnnywatkins5617]

I own a 1975 Lada 2101 imported to the US from Ukraine. They were definitely made to be simple and easily repairable. The owners manual has detailed pictures of rebuilding the engine, although I can’t read Russian.

[@uis246]

Right to Repair, soviet edition

[@attila535]

Many people here in Eastern Europe, especially old folks remember these cars fondly, as they were nearly indestructable.

[@mattcannon8467]

People will be digging these out of the ground and driving them home

[@DjDizzy216]

So these heavy-metal box-cars last forever? That’s a shame.

[@Big.W.]

DJ Dizzy They were made in Tank factories, so they’re pretty much armored cars.

[@JakeTurbine]

@@DjDizzy216 Why is that a shame?

[@hobowizard3124]

@@DjDizzy216 heavy ? most of them don't have over 1000 kilos , and the ones that do were the "luxury" ones

[@Т1000-м1и]

This video is pretty dense and not stretched out to 25 minutes, which is rare to find now. Thanks

[@TechShowdown]

The Ronald Reagan joke at the start though lmao

[@elemental9039]

Tech Showdown what did it mean .. could u explain please... thx

[@CarlosJose-yw4mj]

Explain pls

[@E46_Lenker]

Carlos José just search Ronald Reagan funny Moments

[@peter-radiantpipes2800]

Tech Showdown it’s worth googling and watching for sure. The American, polish and Russian joke is awesome!

[@samueljackson856]

I literally am going to click off this garbage video to watch Reagan

[@JoMiMi_h]

🙌 *SOVIETCHARGERS!* 🙌 *"The USSR was **_T H I C C_** "*

[@Omar-em7rl]

T H I C C

[@LouisSubearth]

@crazymonkeyboom They were okay, not too thick, nor too thin.

[@EverettdaBear]

@@LouisSubearth Other than the ones who starved, right?

[@LouisSubearth]

@@EverettdaBear There were declassified documents stating the average caloric input between the average Soviet and average American were roughly the same. That's a bit at odds with a starving population, isn't it?

[@EverettdaBear]

@@LouisSubearth blatantly false garbage. Communism is cancer.

[@reneheroux2178]

*takes refrigerator and gives it a 30 HP engine, DA THIS IS GÜÜD!*

[@EpilepsyWarning]

LMFAO

[@gloverelaxis]

how fucking stupid are you that you think Russian uses umlauts. they have a completely different alphabet you absolute dunce

[@hohtari1]

This deserves top comment spot. Imagining this in my head made me look like i had an epileptic shock.

[@randomguyonyoutube6738]

@RockabillyFox your life is a r/woosh

[@sieravirs1107]

@@gloverelaxis cough cough east germany

[@Old_school02]

As someone who is very familiar with socialism and Communism. The reason on to why cars weren't a priority and wrin. Russia's eyes, it's because cars are not a basic need.

[@claudiobizama5603]

Kinda disappointed they didn't mention the best selling export USSR, the VAZ Niva.

[@davidrobinson3148]

@@DanArnets1492 4:35 :You may know VAZ by their export name, Lada...

[@blackcountryme]

I remember the Lada Riva, a pile of crap it was too... Rust included under the vinyl roof at no extra cost.

[@skaltura]

Yeah, Niva i hear is quite excellent little car. Never driven one tho, but for what it is, and for what it is meant for it is outright brilliant.

[@Konformation07]

Well that's because it was actually a good car. Can't mention that one.

[@BangFarang1]

@@davidrobinson3148 The manufacturer name was AvtoVAZ but the marketing name in USSR was Zhiguli. So Zhiguli Niva in local market and Lada Niva abroad.

[@LunringNassar]

To anyone who doesn't get the joke that Nolan said on the start of the video: When the guy said there's a 10 year waiting list, "should I pick it up on morning or afternoon" then he said, "The plumber's coming in the morning" meaning he also had to wait 10 years for the plumber to come.

[@FREESPIRITSSOARING]

lol i didn't get it at first

[@LunringNassar]

@Silverio Garcia the car took 10 years to get, the plumber also took 10 years to wait.

[@peterdarr383]

The reason for the explanation is because of the "dumbing down" of America. Keep up the good work.

[@jd_the_cat]

How am I the only one that understands Soviet humor?

[@bluelotusnanebi]

@@jd_the_cat yeah, if you don’t have even a basic understanding of Soviet realities, Soviet jokes would easily fly over your head lol

[@definitelyjustcj4148]

0:47 it’s actually the UNION of Soviet Socialist Republics not United

[@EdmontonRails]

Should be the enslaved peoples under the soviet union.

[@justsomeofmyfavs]

@Judson Joist No, it doesn't. The word "soviet" means "council" or "committee" (in this specific context, because it also means "advice").

[@einekartoffel3531]

Always knew unions were evil

[@justsomeofmyfavs]

@Judson Joist No, it's more like "Union of Councils". What "USSR" literally means is "Union of Council-based Socialist Republics". A revolutionary "council" was an assembly of workers or peasants purporting to represent their local community/city/region and deciding on policies within it. Kind of like legislative and executive power all rolled into one (and rarely elected in today's sense, of course). In early days of the revolution, these councils were the ruling power. Hence the expression "Vlast' sovietov" i. e. "rule of councils". A bad idea, of course - legislature and execution should be separated to avoid corruption of the former by the latter.

[@honkhonk8009]

translation

[@philipgrice1026]

What is completely overlooked here is that car crazy America only happened after WWII, when the USA was wealthy from selling aircraft, tanks, guns, munitions, etc., etc, to the rest of the world. Russia was broke then like the rest of Europe. The US intimidation of the USSR and socialist countries by building ever more bombers and nuclear devices force them to rearm constantly, consuming hard currency needed for welfare and manufacturing development. I've visited Russia and driven several of their vehicles. They were sturdy and dependable considering the lack of freeways or even just surfaced roads in the country. Now if we consider the gross pollution of the world by the USA producing ever more oil and gasoline with vehicles that spewed toxins into our atmosphere we may want to consider which country was better for our long term survival on this planet. Our only planet. Remember, Americans sucked at building rockets until they hired German NAZIs. Same with jet engines. Pharmaceuticals too. IBM rose to fame using punched card technology developed by Herman Hollerith. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian. America was built on the profits of slave labor, war profiteering and immigrants that competed to become successful despite their hard experiences abroad. That includes quite a few Russians too such as Igor Sikorsky.

[@mvk4343]

Tesla was Yugoslav

[@mvk4343]

Regardless, we can also see the Soviets were more dedicated to building mass public transit too, while Detroit took down their streetcar systems after being bullied by the auto manufacturers there

[@DRAINTVofficial]

Skoda cars such as the MB1000 and Favorit where unique cars made in czsk during communism. those cars were really efficient and reliable for its time

[@Piotr94L]

As we were laughing in Poland " tysiąc Małych Błędów" 1000 small issues. But Czech rally cars like 130RS, 160RS MTX or 200RS were Eastern Block Porsches.

[@niktodt1]

Exactly! Here in Slovakia there were dozens of them on the street like 10 years ago. Very nice cars for their time.

[@penzlic]

not to mention their rally victories in class all over Europe

[@DRAINTVofficial]

TATRA Trucks!

[@MorbidEmpireRD]

Sorry, but Skoda Favorit was not a good car. My dad had one 20 years ago and it was terrible. Yeah, it was easy to fix. But what's the point if you have to fix it every week. And for it's 1.3l petrol engine, it was very very thirsty.

[@maratines]

“Mr. Gorbachev, supercharge those cars!” - Ronald Reagan

[@XSpt1]

Best comment ever

[@brethren111]

Njet

[@JavierCR25]

Your comment sir... your comment is pure freaking gold...

[@constantinandro684]

I laughed so hard

[@jameshartley2302]

Lol

[@peterpeterson4800]

You are really rating that sexy and indestructable Lada too low. And have you heared of the Lada 4x4? Now that is one all-terrain vehicle.

[@Daedalus-BC308]

Even Top Gear liked the 4X4.

[@TheOmegaozzy]

We used to have on back in Russia. A yellow Lada niva, That car would break once a month but we loved it lol

[@LJ-fe8vb]

Niva😍

[@jrutt0722]

@@Daedalus-BC308 im pretty sure the second they said that, it broke down

[@Eko_Kats]

@@jrutt0722 well still repairable with 2 screwdrivers and 3 more tools anywhere it broke

[@tatwood93]

Nolan, I get it, you are a car nerd, you have many tools, shop, lift, decent amount of money, probably live in a city. What these cars lack in power, they make up for in practicality in the backwoods. Very simple, very easy to repair, not much to go wrong. Essential if you are far away from civilization. Theoretically though how much horsepower does a person actually need? I could get around with less than 10. And with the right drivetrain setup could likely pull many many mpgs, possibly more than 100. So why is it that 125hp is considered not much power? When you really think about it that's a lot of excess. And how much gas (money) are we wasting just because we want to feel "safe" or superior to communists/our peers? Driving around in a city in even a 200hp car is such a waste, there's literally no reason to have that much power other than the fact that everything else has that much power.. Anyhow, when I hear people cry about not being able to buy parts, or new cars, or how difficult and expensive they are to maintain, cracked a big wheel on a pothole, turbo going out, I think back to the communist cars and realize they had the design right. And of course Americans have zero patience and are accustomed to being catered to, so a 5 year wait time is a failure of communism, while a 5 year loan with 25% interest under threat of repossession is normal and people will congratulate you for entering such an agreement. Oh and now you have to wait in the US too. But I'm sure somehow it was still caused by communism!!!

[@justinc6962]

It was caused by the biological weapon they've released on the world

[@tatwood93]

@@justinc6962 right, the failed containment was definitely malicious, you can tell by how often our leaders met and praised each other and their actions in response to the virus. Also, no country geopolitically allied with USA had anything to do with the spread of the virus, and neither did US economic interests. No sir, we here in the US can only ever be victims and never part of the problem.

[@Cabron_fiber]

You forgot about Lada Niva! One of the best cars for off-road. Also, you didn’t mention UAZ. They made couple of interesting cars)

[@yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907]

This was about the bad cars

[@COEmotion566]

ZAZ!! Запорожець

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

didn't UAZ make military trucks?

[@yehor25]

@@COEmotion566 свiй хлопець.

[@pel0511]

Мне кажется, что Американцы любят унижать наш и без этого неидеальный автопром. Аж хочется сказать что-то типа: "Your Muscle Cars eat too much gas and their suspension is bad!"

[@simondavid6506]

My grandfather told me when I was little, that he ordered a red Lada 1200, and 8 years later he got an orange Skoda 120L. #takeitorwaitanother10years. 😅

[@filipfilip9717]

Where u from?

[@simondavid6506]

@@filipfilip9717 I'm from Hungary.

[@filipfilip9717]

@@simondavid6506 ayyy im from Slovenia

[@garage5125]

he replaced lada by škoda 120? ladas were better in basically everything, škodas had engine in the back, and they sounded like rally car, but except that they didn t have anything to do with fast cars (top speed was supposed to be 150km /h but the speedometer was saying 140-150 when you were doing like 90-100 . they might have better handling than ladas, but that was caused by that fact than they were so weak, people were joking about them than the absolute dream of škoda owners is to spin the weels of skoda on ice:-)) they were constantly cooking the engine, and when you crashed into lada, you were able to fit that škoda 120 into the trunk of the lada, and still had enough space to fit there some luggage... i disagree with this video, but these skodas with engine in the back were really terrible cars.

[@simondavid6506]

@@garage5125 It might be, but the pure fact is that, people were just happy to get a car at that time. 😅

[@deadmansfire]

Damn,no mention of the Lada Niva? The Soviet G-Class (in that that they are still producing it with no big change)

[@Piotr94L]

Niva was soviet SUV true badass was UAZ

[@AkeemKerimov]

More like Suzuki jimny class. G-class is UAZ Hunter (modified UAZ 469 ‘71)

[@emilsbumbieris7810]

True. One of the best cars in Soviet times

[@martintotev4508]

Only its like 30 times more off-road caplable

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

Most hunters in my country are preferring NIVA for obvious reasons..

[@timlatte8302]

I knew 3 guys who bought 2nd hand 4wd ladas they loved them, had no trouble,thought the local dealers had fixed all faults and paid only small money. The 2wd cars had heated back windows to keep your hands warm while pushing them...

[@notaslav]

Let’s see who in my family drove a Soviet car! (I’m Ukrainian) -Uncle had Lada 2101 -Grandfather drove Volga for the government -Other grandfather had Tatra truck -Dad owned *5 lada nivas* before the fall of the soviet union -lots of other uncles with lots of other ladas Note: both sides of my family were christians lol Edit: just realized I made a similar comment 4 weeks ago, stupid me.

[@tomassmrcina6179]

Tatra💪🇨🇿

[@wev7196]

was your grandpa one of the people who kidnapped people off the street in the volga or just a kjb agent

[@notaslav]

@@wev7196 neither actually, he just drove around government officials or something like that

[@wev7196]

@@notaslav nice

[@cohengamertv6548]

Black volgas bad

[@alexb4339]

Ok, Donut, dats fine, but where are those? GAZ - 13 and 14 executive class sedans (only for party members, sure, but they were there) LADA 2121/Niva (heard this one was very popular among farmers abroad USSR) infamous rotary LADA 2101 Late ussr LADA 2108/2109 (up-to-time hatchbacks with FWD) ZIL limousines (super-high class mammoths for elite) UAZ 462/469 (the real russian G-class) Moskvitch 401, 406, GAZ - 24 and 2402 wagon Cmon, guys, there's so much to tell and you shorten it so hard :( Like this so Donut guys make another one!

[@Random-nf7qb]

@j q fuck you

[@Zigzag_artichoke]

I'd love to learn about all this stuff, Donut. 90 years of alternate car history deserves more than 1 video

[@alexb4339]

@j q likewise, ma boi

[@ghoulbuster1]

he talked about bad cars, not good ones

[@urdaddywingnut7820]

Alex B -- Wow man, it sounds like Nathan needs to turn this into a three- if not 4- part series to cover all you just mentioned, because I surely found this to be one of their more interesting videos 😃

[@nomad27]

My grand-dad finally got a permit to purchase a car after many years of waiting. When he was finally allowed to go get his car from the car lot, it was sitting in the middle, blocked behind all kinds of broken or extremely old cars. He was told he can wait few months or get one of the broken ones right now, spending the permit. This was a hint to get the cash out and start paying the local guys. After a small fortune and few bottles of vodka changed hands, the blocking cars were moved out of the way, only to reveal "his" car didn't have wheels. "All yours" they said. Some time and quite a lot of cash later, he was driving his very own car. He kept that car for more than 25 years, maintaining it by himself. Then, after immigrating to Israel, he had the choice of either owning a car or receiving state "pension". Can't have both, they said. If you own a car, you're doing well enough to get by on your own. So he had to avoid owing one. Governmental laws are shit. Stay away from socialism, kids!

[@nomad27]

@Theodore Marakas Not actually called "Mafia" though.. I think "Putinism" is the word you are looking for.

[@nomad27]

@Theodore Marakas Yep.

[@satchelsatchel]

So, during the process of "a small fortune and few bottles of vodka" changing hands, and the blocking cars being moved out of the way, your grandfather never noticed that the car didn't have wheels? And those other men moved "all kinds of broken or extremely old cars" even when they knew that they were clearing a path for a car which could not move? Cool story, bro.

[@nomad27]

@@satchelsatchel (Feeding the troll) Your first comment is getting into too much detail. It is possible that he didn't see the wheels. Or perhaps he did see the missing wheels but decided he'll deal with that later on, or tow the car without them. Is it THAT important to you? I wish I could ask him. I can't. Your second comment - The point in this kind of behavior is to get some money on top of their very low salary. So in this regard getting payed to clear a path to a car which cannot move is better than clearing a path to a car that CAN move :)

[@KaitouKaiju]

Sounds like a corruption problem not a communism problem (USSR was not socialist). The same sort of ripoff bribery happens in capitalist countries too. Where do you think lemon laws came from?

[@Wqghfxz]

Not only they sucked at making automobiles, they sucked basically at everything because of iron curtains and no competition.

[@deandupont5503]

Joke time: After the Berlin Wall fell, anyone caught spitting chewing gum into the street would be fined heavily. Why? It caused traffic jams. If a Trabant stopped on the gum, it would be unable to free itself, blocking the roadway. (Yeah, never hear a lot about great German comedy.)

[@olmaBLN]

A Trabant and cow shit are lying on the grass. Cow shit: What the hell are you? - Trabant: I am a car! - Cow shit: I you call yourself a car, I call myself a Pizza.

[@StanislavG.]

I heard another one, it goes something like -Why do Ladas have a rear windshield wiper? For people who have to push it from behind and spit all the way

[@olmaBLN]

@@StanislavG. Why Yugo provided back windshield heating? To get warm fingers, when pushed in winter.

[@TheMuro22]

I' m exchanging a Trabant for a pile of slurry. Y'know, shit for shit...

[@tylisirn]

German humour is no laughing matter.

[@F1-Person]

The Background music.. Too familiar. *iissssss B O R I S*

[@ihategreengr4203]

Im subscribet to him lol

[@aperson-wh7kl]

“Hey buddy, still alive?”

[@LifeofBoris]

I have been summoned

[@F1-Person]

@@LifeofBoris HOLY CRAP IT'S THE SLAV KING

[@laksamanasuhendra5868]

@@LifeofBoris boris?

[@fredphilips5320]

Lada-Vaz 2101: I'm the most sold car in the USSR. Fiat 124: *That's me.*

[@Blortoblorto]

Fiat was a communist company run by a communist city. It’s solidarity not a copy.

[@caya2000]

The Soviet Union and the Soviet Block are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. The Soviet Union was a country that existed from 1922 to 1991, while the Soviet Block referred to the countries that were under its influence during the Cold War. Washing them together is a mistake because it ignores their individual histories and experiences. Each country in the Soviet Block had its own unique relationship with the Soviet Union, and lumping them together erases those differences. It is important to understand each country's distinct story to fully comprehend their place in history. The countries of East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania have all made significant contributions to the automotive industry. Despite being behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War era, these countries managed to produce cars that were not only affordable but also reliable. The Trabant from East Germany was a popular car in its time and is still remembered fondly by many today. In Poland, the FSO Polonez was a hit with drivers who appreciated its spacious interior and low-price tag. Czechoslovakia produced the Skoda 1000 MB which was known for its durability and reliability. Romania's Dacia brand has been producing cars since the 1960s and has gained a reputation for making affordable yet robust vehicles. Yugoslavia's Zastava brand produced cars such as the Yugo which became popular in Europe due to their low price point. Hungary also has a rich history of producing luxury coaches and city buses that have earned worldwide recognition. The country's skilled craftsmen and engineers have been able to create vehicles that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional. These coaches and buses have been used by various transportation companies, including those in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa. Despite facing numerous challenges over the years, including economic instability and political upheaval, these countries have managed to make significant contributions to the automotive industry. Their legacy lives on through classic car enthusiasts who appreciate their unique designs and affordability. Despite the fact that there was a waiting list for some cars, people in Hungary were still able to purchase certain models within a two-week delivery time, such as Moskvitches and Zaporozeces. It highlights the importance of supply and demand in determining availability and pricing. While some may have to wait longer for their desired car, even years, others were able to obtain it relatively quickly even behind the iron curtain.

[@penzlic]

and not a single mention of fantastic KAMAZ trucks who dominated Dakar through years? No MAZ heavy 8x8 ? No BeLAZ mining trucks? No Niva? No URAL bikes? No Tatras? (its Czech, but melkus is DDR, so....) Very VERY biased video imho.

[@invertedv12powerhouse77]

I think it focuses more on civilian vehicles. Anything built for military/gov uses is great.

[@waclosh]

Yeah the research was not done properly.

[@MrCptfishin]

Should have scrolled before I posted.... You said the same thing... But added some I was unaware of... Thx... I'll be looking them up now...

[@nwphoosh]

@@invertedv12powerhouse77 the Niva was a civilian vehicle made under the Lada brand. One of the best 4x4's in the world.

[@crabyman3555]

All of what you called are military cars......not given to Civilians. A Soviet civilian could not get a Kamaz or a Tatra, so it doesnt matter

[@netiturtle]

I'm not sure where the reliability myth started from but it wasn't from people who owned them. My 1st 20 years were spent in Soviet Union and my family owned one of those copied Fiat's, namely VAZ-2101 or Lada 01 as we knew them. When temperatures fell below 0 C, our apartment backyard was filled with whining from starterengines as the drivers tried to get their cars started in the morning. Some just didn't dive at winter. And VAZ's(idk why but we called them Lada's like in the west) were the good ones, Moskvitš was the bad one. Suspension was indeed tough but the spring coils went soft overtime, so they were filled with rubberballs. IF you had spring coils, leaf springs were a real thing for other cars like the Moskvitš or Zaporozhets . Ignition plugs would constantly get wet or suddy and needed re-calibrating, clutch disks wore out way too fast. And the cars rusted everywhere, good thing they were made of thick steel. Cars were incredibly simplified to bring reliability up, but they were still bad. They were very easy to repair, that part the video got right. And parts were widely available. Also they were rear-wheel drive, which made them fun during winter, like dirt-poor version of BMW. My father allowed me behind wheel when I was 11, can't have that anymore either :)

[@Fz0077]

people tend to confuse reliability with low maintenance cost. same thing with t34 tank, it wasnt reliable at all, but easy to fix if broken, and even easier to replace.

[@henryrodgers7386]

Your vehicular problems remind me of a Polish friend of mine. So he decides to buy his first washing machine, and his father says a certain model is absolutely the best. He gets the thing home, and three days later it throws a belt. "Why did you recommend this boat anchor?!?" He snaps. "It may break every other load, but it's very easy to fix." I think that was the idea behind the Lada. Still, Soviet cars are rare and special here in the US. I saw a... Pobeda, I think it was called? for sale here for over $5000, quite a bit in the Midwestern states. .

[@pokrec]

"Gnyotsya, ne lamiotsya" - it bends, but it won't break. We used this saying in the context of Soviet products. Some of them really were tough and functional (those less complicated like kitchen pots), but the quality of majority of products based only on the ease of fix and low cost of maintenance, they broke very frequently. Washing mahines in Poland of that time gad only one weak point: an electromechanical programmer device. It was a drum revolved by a synchronous motor in 1 rev/hour speed, that turned on/off the mechanical contacts placed on a perimeter of the drum. It was wearable and a horror to fix (if it was possible), in case of replacement need, this part was not so easy to find and buy.

[@CanComp]

I also remember that Moskvitsch had a pretty poor reputation.

[@egykilenckilenchet]

Same, i live in an ex-soviet block country, and back in the 1980s it was standard to literally crawl under your car every single weekend, and when you started a long journey you would pack half the car in spare parts in the trunk for roadside repairs... and the same people say Ladas were so reliable... I think it's just nostalgia. Yeah they still run, but barely, and after thousands of hours spent repairing them during their lifetime...

[@crxdelsolsir]

Joke at the front I heard in a Ronald Reagan's speech.

[@CHixon]

Nice presentation. I wanted to do a write up on USSR cars in school back in the '70's but soon discovered that there was no information available at the public library.

[@blyaticon8190]

I still see Trabants from the 70s driving in Germany, they might not be fast but reliable af

[@bleuebrade3655]

They're super polluting tho, so you probably won't see them for much longer

[@DutchDiederik]

Sure. Over engineered, super simple technology is reliable by design. That's why African dictators are still driving around in Mercedeses from the 1970s.

[@skdKitsune]

@@DutchDiederik A trabant is anything but over engineered... And mercedes is just quality itself. Benz invented the damn car

[@DutchDiederik]

@@skdKitsune I phrased that sentence poorly. The over-engineered part referred to Mercedes, the simple technology referred to the Trabant. Mercs from the 1970s are indestructible. I don't think they are as reliable today as they once were.

[@skdKitsune]

@@DutchDiederik Okay that I can agree with. But nowadays cars are not made to be reliable. Sad truth is they just want you to buy a new car

[@S314159265358979]

I was born in USSR in 1972 but never heard this joke there. Probably because it's so funny and so true. Btw, it was told by Reagan, it would be great if you mentioned this fact.

[@helloweener2007]

Maybe you have heard thus joke. "Do you know that Lada stops to produce cars?" "No, why?" "The blacksmith died"

[@samtab8729]

Helloweener wait a sec, Lada still makes cars

[@helloweener2007]

@@samtab8729 Nobody says that the "facts" you claim to be true in a joke, has to be true. 😉

[@GeorgeSemel]

No problem getting any kind of car you want in ole Mother Russia! Those dash cam videos are habit forming.

[@S314159265358979]

Commentators who defend the commie regime must be themselves commies or just blind tribalists. There was indeed scarcity even for the garbage that they called cars (if it was in Sahara, even sand would be in short supply). All of about a dozen of car owners that I personally knew got it using shortcuts like being communist activists and/or by bribing other communists or according to some quotas for members of Kolchoz, etc..

[@claudiosanchez764]

Man this bring back memories, when i was like 15 my parents owned a Lada niva 1.7 it was an awesome car to drive and you could do repairs using a rubber band and some gum, we sold it and now im 21 and i wish we have kept it, great video guys!!

[@axeldiaz7441]

Nolan dismantling communism at the end of a video is always a nice treat

[@123reivaj]

_In Soviet Russia you do not fly away with the car in a high-speed explosion_ ... _The car explode and throw you to fly away at high-speed_ .

[@Sh0Q_]

We may laugh now but these cars would run with a shovel full of gravel in them instead of motor oil

[@TheMuro22]

They even did. That's really the quality of soviet oil

[@5dancingisraelis535]

Mmm gravel and motor oil.. love that communist food

[@NerdyCatCoffeeee]

That is true. Our cars can even run on wood, or coal. We can do anything.

[@kombrug]

@@NerdyCatCoffeeee К сожалению можем делать что угодно кроме инфраструктуры

[@DanE-ew1yt]

@@NerdyCatCoffeeee anything except make a good car.

[@ravenouself4181]

That map of the USSR with Finland but without the Baltics

[@agastyanadadhur9485]

and no tajikistan, kyrgyzstan, and turkmenistan

[@joerobinson69]

For anyone scratching their heads at the plumber joke in the beginning (as I was): it references a joke made by President Reagan in the 1980s regarding how all goods and services took forever to obtain because of the inefficiency of communism. The plumber was going to come the same morning 10 years in the future as the car (not the following day). I got confused because it sounded like the plumber was going to come the following day and the car was going to come in 10 years.

[@DriverAnonim]

I'm from Poland and I can say one thing, comiunism sucks. I my country car history, everything was blocked by gov. They always say things like because... "it's too heavy" , "it's too expensive" , "AC? better open window, it's cheaper, You must be like the everybody..." ;p

[@orzorzelski1142]

So much this! Most innovations in many fields - not just car industry - were stopped because of government meddling (be it political reasons or outright incompetence of gov officials). There were some quite interesting designs and prototypes that might've been about just as good as contemporary western products or better, like FSO Wars (car) or K-202 (computer). Communism IS bad. Unless you want to ruin your country, then it's great.

[@m-catparanormalresearch5569]

I love Poland, they have a long history of knowing what to do with tyrants

[@austinrasmussen1870]

The kjb Wants to know your location.

[@mmmmmmm2000bacon]

Except for that time they invented space travel

[@ecoromka]

And now you're very unique, I guess?

[@Milnoc]

Ladas were very popular in Canada during the 1980s, especially in the province of Quebec. They were the cheapest cars available at the time, were assembled in the Maritimes, and worked reasonably well once you've resolved its electrical issues under warranty. I'm curious to see if the rumours that they might be coming back to Canada turn out to be true. With the heavy competition from Japan, Europe and South Korea, I suspect they make much better cars today and could find a new audience.

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

I agree. Also there's apparently a huge market in Quebec for "winter cars". Like apparently some people in Quebec have a different car/truck/SUV that they use for winter instead of the vehicle they use during ths rest of the year. The "winter car" endures the snow and the salt on the roads so that the other vehicle the person owns doesn't have to. A Lada SUV could be a great winter vehicle. Also I think that's why Mitsubishi's North American offices are headquartered in Quebec City. Mitsubishi offers their cars for less than other car companies that sell in Canada (I don't think they're as good as other car companies cars though) which probably makes Mitsubishi vehicles good "winter cars" and probably leads to Mitsubishi regularly selling lots of automobiles in Quebec.

[@Milnoc]

@@SurprisinglyDeep Quebecers definitely don't have a fear of manual transmissions. They're not that difficult to find over here. As for desiring a Lada, due to recent events in Ukraine, that's no longer an option. I would now prefer a Dacia.

[@taitai4real]

But they never suck at making AK-47

[@svetko05]

That's the problem. All their efforts were to make weapons and military vehicles. They didn't care for the normal people and their needs.

[@tourettesguy3858]

That was copied too from a STG44

[@nielsmichiels1939]

...........Maybe because the *ukrainians* built them. XD

[@taitai4real]

Tourettes Guy STG44 was the one that inspired AK47

[@alexs9953]

Woooooooo yeaaaaaahhhhhh * gunshots*

[@bikerboy3k]

My father had an m21 when we were living in Italy. 2.3 in-line engine correct, I remember distinctly that it sounded like a tractor when turned on, had flat "bench" in the front that could be laid down and would allow an adult to sleep comfortably by resting the head on the rear "bench" and straighten the legs on the flat front one. It had a hydraulic Shifter pump and this was eventually what made it unusable because the pump's support bracket broke and my father couldn't fix it to the chassis anymore and couldn't find replacements. We became homeless in 2006 and parked the car across a river on the road while we slept in an abandoned trailer we found across that river in a field. One morning some hunters were shooting in the area and we were woken up by projectiles flying over and into the trailer, luckily we didn't get hit. Maybe they didn't know someone was living there. My father said they were doing it on purpose to have fun and scare us but who knows maybe they genuinely didn't know someone was in there. When we went to the car to go to the village and buy some food, as the car was stuck in 1st gear due to the pump being unusable, we saw several shotgun pellet holes in the right side of the car. Maybe the hunters thought was an abandoned car, and you already know what my father thought. Malicious acts. The projectiles didn't penetrate to the other side and to this day when you open the right hand side doors you can hear the pellets tumbling around on the inside of the doors. Before all this, many years before we were traveling through Slovakia and we stopped for a break, but the car wouldn't start back up. The starter was low on juice. So my father took from the back a lever, inserted it into the front grill(you'll see a small recess on the front chrome bumper and a hole when looking at the car from the front), climbed with his feet on the lever and cranked the engine that way. We went along our way just fine after that. It had blue sort of wool interior, the material was similar to those stuffed animals from the soviet Era that had metal wires in them to help them maintain their shape. It's synthetic and coarse, people from eastern europe would know what I'm talking about. The cigarette lighter worked and the radio had all letters in Cyrillic and we couldn't really tell what they meant although my father was forced to learn Russian during the 70s he could at least tell which one was volume, on and off and which one was the heater. The horn was actuated by a chrome ring running on the inside of the steering wheel bolted to the center and could be pressed wherever your hands were on the steering wheel. They were miserable times but this car was very unique and interesting to me.

[@JeffDvrx]

this was a great comment to read, glad you both made it through all that

[@reidthompson8979]

Have you forgotten how amazing their trucks are? During the Cold War, the USSR was making much, much better off-road military trucks that the US. Examples: Ural 4320, kraz 255, kraz 260, and maz 537

[@ravindrachavan8513]

I mean most of their cars were German and American ripoffs

[@Blortoblorto]

The ridiculous thing is that we shit on the malaise era western cars but somehow posture like socialist cars were worse. They weren’t.

[@don30594]

That doesn’t fit the United States propaganda

[@mfree80286]

Yes, they got a lot of information in how to do things properly from the lend-leased 150,000 Studebaker and REO produced U6 trucks we sent over for WWII.

[@Morhgoz]

Forgot UAZ-469 from that list!

[@MilitaryArmamentsCompany]

My dad had a VAZ 2106 in the 80s, I still love that car (actually thinking about getting one). Yes it is true, Soviet cars technologically wore pretty far behind Western auto industry, and getting them in USSR was a challenge (my father got his with out waiting because he purchased it on his father's name, my grandfather was many times awarded veteran of world war 2, so he had privileges, like purchasing a car with out waiting). But there is one thing that many people miss about those days, and that was valuing what you had, many people in the West will probably think it's a bit strange, but if you purchased a car in USSR, you felt like you wore on top of the world, and that went for many other things too. Today we went to far in the opposite direction, enormous overproduction, and as a result very little sense of value in anything.

[@XOFInfantryman]

Okay We get it You liked being eternally dirty poor and never having the option to have something better

[@x1pyroveride]

*buys a Lada 2107* thinks: this thing is a pos, it needs more power *drops SR20 in lada* Now this is a car!

[@Guy.B]

No no no my friend. You say "Vot e eta machina blyat!"

[@Doug_R1]

Or one up it, Drop a Ural Military truck engine into a lada, there's a channel on youtube called Garage 54 that did that and called it Ladzilla. Somehow, it worked.

[@thomashanson6603]

@@Doug_R1 that channel is so good

[@michaelgahler4729]

Min 3:45. Der Moskwich 400 ist keine Kopie vom Opel Kadett. Er wurde auf den gleichen Maschine produziert. Diese wurden in Deutschland in Rüsselsheim abgebaut, nach Moskau geschafft und dort wieder aufgebaut. Er wurde auf den originalen Maschinen gebaut.

[@АнтонАнонимусов]

Русские тут? Kinda true. These dirt cheap crappy ladas make for sick winter drift missiles, tho. I own one myself.

[@bluh654]

they're great backyard racers.

[@greehun]

жигульмээээ Agree. Russian lada-based missiles are the craziest one :)

[@niktodt1]

In eastern EU we have drift shows with Ladas drifting XD

[@speedy.1074]

олды здесь???

[@tedarcher9120]

Неа, только коммунисты

[@maxlehti673]

It bothers the hell out of me that Finland is on that map of the USSR

[@1cspr1]

Oh gosh, no. Did you make it to your safe space in time to shelter yourself from the insensitive KZbin person?

[@инструктормотобезопасности]

It Бothers you? Don't be bothered. It's in control of competent people, who are good with planning counterpolitics and tactical warfare. Have a tea.

[@Stray___]

@@инструктормотобезопасности I don't think Russia is better off than Finland politically speaking, but I loved how you spelled bother with a Б to low-key imply your nationality. Nice touch 👌

[@инструктормотобезопасности]

@ilovepancakeswithjam I guess what happens in Finland, stays in Finland..

[@ciggy_]

Well to be fair, if it wasn’t for the german mercenaries that the Finnish aristocrats brought into the civil war Finland probably would have been part of the Soviet Union so you shouldn’t be to bothered

[@Viskoze]

Had Lada 2106 for 4 years as a daily. To be fair, there hasn't been a single time where it didn't get me from a to b. Drained battery - just hand crank it, carb flooded - use ziptie you find under rear seat, fuel pump overheating - it overheats 20 meters before the place you were intended to stop and starts working just as you are about to leave, fuel tank clogged - connect a water bottle with fuel straight to the fuel pump, engine working rough - ladies love it... don't get me started on removable rear seat for 3 and tent on roof for 2. Objectively that car is garbage, but damn, it has a soul and moments I've had with it are priceless.

[@bamuz]

A few months ago just before the war started I was looking into importing some Russian cars because honestly they’re all pretty cool little cars

[@MrLobsterity]

But now TV shows convinced you these cars are pure evil?

[@bamuz]

@@MrLobsterity lmaooo no. They weren’t shipping them over here then. Hell idk if they are now or not. Ps I’m far from the “Russia bad, Putin bad” narrative. 😉

[@ronwalsh]

I got to drive a Trabant back in the early 90's, and it was fantastic. Nothing better than two stroke power in what was described to me as sort of fiberglass body.

[@gammagirl1992]

Fun fact: The Trabant is made of Duroplast. Most toilet seats are also made out of Duroplast.

[@TIBORANGE]

Talk about Russia but show a picture of a Melkus 1000....but this was a „private“ project from the gdr....the Engine was from a Wartburg...it was heavily tuned and pretty fast!

[@spikespiegel5878]

that's what i said when i saw it

[@boxermeister3321]

@@spikespiegel5878 ich auch

[@woottastic]

It was made in Soviet-controlled Germany... So that's why it makes sense to be on this list.

[@skepticalbadger]

Watch the whole video. Which is about cars from communist countries, not just Russia.

[@Phunker1]

@@woottastic nope

[@faizan_e24]

9:43 my man literally got decapitated in a car wreck 😂

[@Roundtableoffools]

One like, one respect for the crash dummy

[@beckhanra]

Bah, that was in the 60's. Those crash tests weren't about safety back then, they were about making the most spectacular decapitation.

[@dimarews]

@@beckhanra this was a proto-moskvich crash test, which shown that the safety was inefficient; later they improved that shit and it passed the tests.

[@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx]

I'm pretty sure that many people driving the same vehicle had the same fate so RIP we shouldn't make fun.

[@budlewis721]

How do you get figuratively decapitated in a car wreck? Lose your mind? Get amnesia?

[@dullahan7677]

Shit, I'd take an early '80s LADA Niva 4x4 any old day of the week, my friend.

[@Soundbrigade]

In Sweden they were very popular. Compared to other 4x4 they were robust and really in for some off-limit driving, all the extras was INCLUDED (winch for instance) and was just half the price of any competitor. My friends had two of them and now regret they sold them.

[@kadeconnally7489]

They sucked at feeding people too😂

[@MikoOhneHose]

Kade Connally They sucked / sucks at pretty much everything.

[@gnomeofbendixen3213]

@@MikoOhneHose well they don't suck at killing people

[@no_4259]

Kade Connally that’s the point xD

[@CounterLife]

@@gnomeofbendixen3213 *laughs in Stalin*

[@NaschAzure]

*one million years gulag*

[@name-jn3ri]

Russians: We're starving! USSR: *sends dog to space*

[@chingghishan5707]

Zach L Indians: where starving Government: build multi billion dollar statue 2x larger then the Statue of Liberty.

[@ryantyniec1081]

*Dog dies*

[@ezeooo]

Русские были первыми в космосе, Америка отправилась на Луну позже в подвал Голливуда.

[@menaceman9011]

Zach L ahahahahaha

[@jdb1478]

Ryan Tyniec Dog Starves*

[@АвторазборкаЛитва]

I live in Lithuania. My parents had Lada, made in 1982. Later we sold this car to Russia in 1994.

[@StupidusMaximusTheFirst]

I don't see anything wrong with borrowing ideas, concepts, designs etc. We all do this, you didn't reinvent your own wheel either, that's how progress works. They obviously went more for practicality, since resources were scarce, as you've said. Simple and easy to fix. I suppose it sucks to have to wait a decade to get a car, but that's what they had to do, the 50k tanks were probably a priority since you too had 50k tanks. And although you didn't have to wait to get a car in the US, you could get both the 50k tanks and lots of fancy cars for every US citizen. Why do you think this is? Well, that's because other allied countries in the west had their resources stolen, so they would have to wait for years instead of you. They'd use horses or bicycles just so you can have your fancy mustang. Think about this for a minute, then come back without the smug attitude.

[@beavis2678]

That doesn't mean the cars objectively sucked And wtf do you mean by smug attitude?

[@Handyman1199]

Im dailying a 1989 Trabant 601, Love it and fix it myself. It’ll get the RS1000 3-cylinder by next year

[@maskoffjack]

When i still lived in Russia my Grandpas Russian SUV broke every week, literally and holy shit it burned our wallets but then we got a Lexus, i instantly noticed how shit russian cars are after having a Japanese one.

[@pel0511]

Предатель родины) В говёности машин виноваты только партия и 90-е (Ранние жиги хороши)!

[@LeoMkII]

how tf do you switch from a Lada (I guess) to a fucking Lexus??? did your grandpa win the soviet lottery or something?

[@RT22-pb2pp]

As american I did same. Got toyota and realized how crappy usa cars are.

[@Park_Place]

@@LeoMkII Probably after the collapse of the USSR

[@doublechin8088]

*RED ARMY wants to know your location*

[@abhishekdev258]

doesn't have the same ring to it as "freedom is here, open up" or "US Army wants to know your location"

[@zanemccune8759]

Red Menace detected! Liberty Prime activated.

[@SvyatoslavBiz]

@@zanemccune8759 It's from other opera.

[@abhishekdev258]

@-T-X-M- "US Army wants to know your location" has been taken from a meme. He obviously is using the same reference. But it is not as good because the former meme has a real basis. This one doesn't.

[@abhishekdev258]

@-T-X-M- Iraq war, war in Kuwait, US pressure not to buy Iran's oil but yes..this doesn't have real basis.

[@Istoeumapemba]

Here in Brazil, after returning of car imports, we got three Lada models. The unbeatable Niva, the boring Samara, and the Laika (2101), that was the cheapest car sold in Brazil (Costed 6900 dollars, against VW Beetle's 7200 dollars). Still today, there are Niva Clubs in Brazil.