Lol, yes the good old days of the 1967 soviet Moskvitch.
Posted on 08/29/2019 9:13:25 PM PDT by NorseViking
Good for Trump recognizing this for what it is. Another Obama/Bush plot.
Yeah, I’ve heard similar through the grapevine, that some older and now less employed Ukrainians now fondly remember the old Soviet economy/job market.
It’s gotta be tough being Ukrainian. Such a strong and beautiful people and a beautiful country, too, but damn, that neighborhood has been one of the historically worst places to be. Ever!
Last year Ukraine had the lowest new car sales since 1967.
Just imagine what car sales hey had in 1960s and why.
My heart aches for those born to such things. What a tough place to be.
I wouldn’t want to be a Ukrainian in 1930s but it seems like Khruschev and Brezhnev era has made a better following. That is why Donbas area in full blood Communist and the rest of the country expects Europe to deliver a better quality comminism than the Soviet version with more free stuff at less expense.
Interesting. Thanks for that insight! It helps.
Lol, yes the good old days of the 1967 soviet Moskvitch.
My dad owned one at the time. Beats any non-luxury European make for the price. An 1969 m-24 with V-8 was a best deal in East Europe. It had poor sales mainly because of little parking space for full size cars and high fuel price in East Germany.
1973 Volga Gaz-24 Russian Legendary Car in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxj2kuLBN_s&t=319s
Well, now USSR is no more, and I live very very far away. Also, my child hid dream, at least one of them has come true. I own and I drive a 1973 Volga GAZ-24. Funny, but all these 40 + years that I was dreaming of this car not knowing that it was already driving on those beat up Soviet roads counting down to the day we met in the Far-Away-Land...
This was a very prized item in Poland for sure.
By the way a 1989 Moskvich a Cadillac-sized decent reliability and cost $3200 in 1990 with v-8. Maybe the post-Soviet economy wasn't that poor but kept down on purpose to curb competition?
They are more than half of Ukraine
Do you know half of Ukraine?:) Flipping in their associations it not completely new for them. A decade of bad experience and they would be back licking Russian boots. It is already starting. The main challenge for Russia would be to avoid awarding this behavior too generously.
In my humble opinion the best outcome for everyone would be for Ukraine to become a self-sufficient truly independent country running its foreign policy according to its own interests and not as a proxy for foreign powers in their rivalry against each other. Just picking between sponsors doesn’t change anything.
Too bad their political class doesn’t let it happen. For that reason it would be a perpetually destabilized third world country for a long time.
I know folks from west of the dnieper. The mood is anti Russian
That’s because you are American. If you are Russian they would be anti American. It is how it works there.
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