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Hello Sergei. I heard in another video your whife got mad when you asked what roadhead is. I think I know why. Well a "roadhead" refers to the end of a road. Thing is in american slang road head also refers to a woman giving you a blowjob while you are driving. Like getting head (blowjob) while on the road.

They should have gifted the car to Stalin.

you guys have your own headaches in America. many are on antidepressants for a reason

Were they really poor quality? They were pretty damn simple.

D Can yeah but you gotta think about the Soviet military. Not only is Russia geographically disadvantaged in terms of materials needed for auto manufacturing but most of it went to the military. Which was absolutely massive like holy shit. The only reason the US was able to compete with Soviet spending was cause they spent so much on research projects trying to make the highest and sometimes most ridiculous things. I.e. the F-35 which has costed like 1.3 trillion and US has less than a thousand of them. The Soviet Union comparatively had way more troops and vehicles and after a couple of thousands tanks in a year your supply of rubber runs low. So a soviet official what matters more to you? Making sure your thousands of tanks have brakes or one manufacturing bloke has his brakes on his 20 year old car?

Oil. Why take on all the challenges listed by Mr. Sputnikoff and on this thread when the end result is curtailing the USSR's petroleum exports and having to bicker over sharing out Romania's production? That's pretty much why the Third Reich invaded the USSR, and very much why they lost.

In Quebec they have a joke on LADA: How do you get spare parts for a Lada? - You follow one and pick them up from the road!

Even though I wouldn't fully agree - we have a LADA 7 in Eastern Europe and it's still working after 40 years with 250 000 kms on it.

I'd like to get one as a second car. I don't care about reliability.

I also wanted to say that as an American, Canada is awesome. I just wish they had the same rights as America.

@@commodoresixfour7478 I'm going to try to bring our old Lada to Canada. Not sure how much it can possibly cost tho. Apparently the shipment can vary from 1.5 (for a quarter of a container) to 3k $. For us it has a lot of sentimental value. But if you really want a Lada, check out the newer models. They actually kept the same design of Ladas up until 2010. Pretty sure you could find one in central Europe in good condition and low mileage

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Thanks, Yakov!

I can’t see Finns buying Ladas for any reasons of solidarity, but since Finns are very resourceful people, I could see them buying them because they knew how to cheaply keep them running!

@@mattkaustickomments But people did. Even though Finland wasn't a communist country, there were many communists and other USSR symphatizers here back in the day. Nowadays nobody is buying Ladas anymore, the Top 3 most popular new cars in Finland are all Toyotas.

@@Tuppoo94 Thanks for the info. That is surprising to me given the Winter War… I know it was 80+ years ago,but I figured there would still be some underlying wariness and even animosity. “What are the crazy neighbors going to do next?” Plus a feeling of “at least we’re not commies like those guys!”

Axios .king Sounds like there were winners and losers in the Soviet Marxist economy just like there are winners and losers in a free market system. You just happened to be one of the lucky winners. Good for you. I will take my free market system over a government controlled system any day of the year.

@@bluewater454 they were most probably some officals in party or related organizations. Or they could work "outside" (Cuba, Libya, Irak...) and were special paid. And related to party or secret service. There were ways to have a good life, but all were connected with politics.

USHANKA SHOW oh sure but we also sacrificed people's well being, it just isn't as apparent since our propaganda is super effective. We always have excess labor but "no jobs" and a capital surplus, see Beezos or Zuckerberg or whoever else with billions. See capitalists economies are always failing, all the time, count the economic crises just within the last few decades. Also remember the Soviet Union was undergoing capitalist restoration by the end of its run culminating with that drunk Boris Yeltsin. Speaking of economies, The US in particular constantly needs wars to keep fueling the fires. We've never been not at war. We have sacrifice zones all other, like Detroit or Pine Ridge.

Might be because they've not been doing it as long or as intensely as everybody else.

What I got from this video: Basically those who wanted top-end cars bitched a lot that it took 9 years. I guess you didn't really need that brand new car that bad if you're ready to wait that long. If you're soviet and you bothered to learn a capitalist language like English chances are you're kinda biased towards a capitalistic mentality in the first place..

Просто очень много машин шло на импорт. По-сути не обеспечив собственный рынок, СССР обеспечил машинами Кубу и некоторые латинские страны. Народ готов был платить за автомобили, но они не продавали собственному народу. В СССР у власти находились идиоты, которые нарушили основную концепцию коммунизма. Не нужно представлять СССР как идеальный мир, в нем было очень много недостатков, но система образования и работа с население в СССР была не идеально, но на очень высоком уровне.

Constant level of quality. That is the problem. Even their serial military aircrfts were unique pieces. If you try fit a wing from one to another, it would probably do not fit.

I had a volga 3110, its a decent car, had overheating problems tho,especially the feul pump, but thats understandable since it wasnt made for iraqi weather

Never heard of FIAT for steel deal. I need to research that

@@UshankaShow Well, googling once is search, twice is research. Maybe the story is true maybe not really. Different opinions out there...

I was thinking the same thing.

Maybe in Estonia they had lots of money. Most families I knew scraped by although both parents worked full time. No worries about apartment rent though, it was dirt cheap

Thank you very much for the quick response. I have been Binge Watching your videos. Keep up the great work. I am especially interested in Soviet Agriculture. My family has a dairy farm and I work in agricultural consulting in upstate NY. I don't know how much time you spent around the collective farms, but I would love to hear anything you remember about that. Thank you.

Yes, that story is true, I lived and worked in USSR from 1984-86, I saw a policeman park his Lada and he remove the windscreen wipers and put them in the car as did all other drivers, Otherwise, they would be STOLEN.

dave krest. Fiat -- Fix It Again Tony . Ford -- Figure on repairs daily. Dodge -- Drips oil drops grease everywhere. Renault -- Run? No! Saab -- Don't come to me with your Saab (sob) story. G.M. -- General Malfunctions.

Fiats are now made in Mexico so its now "Fix it again Tito!"

Lol that's funny. But nowadays they are a bit more reliable.

Ford in the UK use to be the dagenham busbin down to the strike years. they would try to trun out the same number of cars. but be a busbin on wheels.

fix or repair daily

I prefer paying 3 cents for a bus ride its almost 7€ here in west germany

+Russia Good Bus fare was 5 cents in 1950 -1970s. Trolley-Bus 4 cents, Tram - 3 cents. I was musician and travelling thru Moscow in overcrowded public transportation with musical instruments was daily torture. You never know it you make it in one piece.

Why are you working so hard to defend Communism that killed millions of people around the world?

@@gamewizard1760 fun fact: capitalism killed, starved to death, set dictatorships, etc, moron.

@@phobochrome ok so liberalism did that too?

My dad told me a story of when him and my mom were driving his dad's car in a field and ended up hitting the only tree around... they had just gotten the car. I think it was fixable, otherwise I image they would have to wait so many more years back then. Moved to America in 1990.

After 25 years since manufacturing you can bring any car into the US

Check Ebay for Lada prices, today its a rich people's collector car.

They cared. But they didn't understand all needs of people. Medicine, education, some times apartments were free. Soviet goverment invested much into transport sistem.

except that jaguar is owned by ford. and you can't spell beetle. indian taxi drivers are STILL DRIVING copies of the BRITISH HILLMAN HUNTER FROM THE 50'S. you have new car of your own design that have no heaters or air conditioning! but what could anyone expect? Your engineers usually know NOTHING about engineering because they were rich kids who BRIBED their way thru university.

I hope you're not referring to Hindustan Ambassador. It may have been most selling car in India, but at the global level it doesn't even rate and 2nd? No. The Beetle is actually 2nd most selling car in the world now after Toyota Corolla. Ford Model T has even sold more units than Hindustan Ambassador, so that would make your car at least 4th and probably lower than that.

Dorian Philotheates reagan joke

Влад Третья́к- Actually, version of original Soviet joke used by Reagan. Reagan himself was not very original...

They had a lot of $$$. Go and check how many MIG 21 they sold. Nothing else, just MIG 21's. The problem is where did the money made from MIG 21's go? It went to R&D of the military and the new production.

That's an interesting twist)) But you you are wrong about "OVERNIGHT". Waiting list for Lada was nine years In nine years that new car was already outdated..

That's not true about Japan. It's true Japan got nuked twice, but the overwhelming majority of it's industry was still in tact. Japans biggest loses were it's over seas colonies which provided a huge amount of oil for a nation that had no oil of its own. Not to mention, Japan had a pretty modernized Industry and military before the war. They were a pretty strong industrial power. Because of their location and strength, they became the dominate regional power. After the war, US military bases were still operational in japan, and thus Japan was heavily funded by the US. Now lets take the USSR on the other hand. It had to build almost all of its industry from scratch starting in the late 1920's, then completely overhaul it's military from scratch after that industrialization (in the 1930's). the USSR in some ways had a lot of natural resources, but lacked some lighter metals. This is why the USSR realized that if it was going to survive and industrialize, it had to use foreign currency to buy the lighter metals it needed. The Kopek was seen as an enigma in the west. This meant exporting goods for trade. When the great patriotic war came around, the USSR lost 27 million people to the nazi's, and lost almost all of their industry to the nazi's, yet simultaneously dealt with 75-80% of nazi forces during the war. The USSR barely had the means to recover itself after the war, yet alone fund all of the new soviet republics that existed all around the soviet union. Now lets take a look at the US. The US and western Europe on the other hand, has always had access to an overwhelming amount of resources from third world countries. The US and western Europe Would use a mixture of political subterfuge, threaten economic blockades (embargoes), Threaten harsh tariffs as their "peaceful means" to get poor countries to comply with western interest, and allow their big corporations come in and gobble up all the land, industry and natural resources of the poor countries. That's not all. The West would fund coups against sovereign nations so that they could have control over the economy of that nation. Iran is but one example of this which i will link right here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat . Mossadegh was a democratically elected leader who wanted to nationalize Iran's oil. Why did he want to nationalize the oil? because he despised the fact that the British owned Iran's oil. He wanted to use that oil to serve the people of Iran, and not a foreign power. The British despised this outrage of not being allowed to own the economy of another nation! This would lead to the US and British funding an islamic coup in a joint operation. Then they installed a right wing dictatorship to ensure they still had control over the region. The US repeatedly either helped many right wing dictators come into power, or supported them. This is why countries like Saudi Arabia and Turkey are US allies, despite Saudi Arabia funding ISIS (which in itself was created by the US funding so many Islamic coups and destabilizing the middle east).

I think it's important to point out just how far behind the Soviet Union was right after the octvember revolution, and right after the great patriotic war. The USSR started as a society with almost no industry, and industrialized at an incredibly fast pace in the late 20's and 30's to the point that it could quickly modernize it's army and eventually defeat the nazi's. after WW2 the USSR was extremely devastated, set back by about a decade, and perhaps more. The USSR during the cold war was far behind the USA in economic development from the start. The USA going almost completely unscathed during the war played a big part in that. So the USSR being behind the USA was not because the people weren't incentivized enough, but because it simply started off with lower development. To top it off, there are plenty of former soviet citizens I've talked to who don't think the incentive structure had anything to do with the soviet downfall, but that it was the devastating 1985 reforms, for which there is more than information that proves this. With all that said, The USSR economy developed steadily throughout the cold war. wages may not have risen, but they didn't have to, because wages could increasingly buy more things with increases in productivity (this is why the USSR currency was seen as an enigma in the west). The USSR economy was growing faster than the American economy over the course of decades. It's probably that it would have caught up, that is until the 1985 perestroika reforms which were absolutely devastating to the Soviet system. When compared to countries at a similar level of development, it's economy was growing much faster. Point is, it's really unfair to compare the US and USSR level of development, because the odds were always stacked against the USSR. Despite that, the USSR was growing quite well, until the forced introduction of capitalism in 1985.

Total nonsense! Most of USSR territory was never even touched by the war. While Germany and Japan were totally devastated.

The European part of Russia, which was the most industrial part at the time, was devastated. WWII is the reason much of Europe in general was far behind the USA in industry. This allowed America to twist the facts and say we're the greatest country in the world. Why, just look at all these cars and refrigerators we have!

Foreign production Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Fiat sought to extend its worldwide reach by entering into various collaborative agreements with smaller manufacturers (mostly in developing nations) by licensing the 124 design following its discontinuation in mainstream Western European markets. The best known (and most produced) of all the 124 derivates is the Russian-built Lada, which has to date, sold over 15 million units.

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"people who still have their Chaika"?????? Where did you ever see that? Chaika was never sold to individuals.

USHANKA SHOW Sir, I read an article in the newspaper that LADA cars are highly coveted and being bought back from UK And other parts of europe. is thos true?

its probably even harder now

Offic_ Goes the rates are faked obviously.

Pancake Lord Who would pay to fake such polls? The Russian anti communist government? The Russian billionaire oligarchical capitalists? The Western anti communist liberal governments? The Western billionaire subsidized institutes like Hoover and Mises institutes?

Luke Bruce any company that does public polls. Demands on who pays.

Pancake Lord Heh ok.

Maybe if they relied on there nuclear program more during the cold war they could have decentralized and moved closer to communism.

BVargas78 Well they were forced to under constant threat from the imperialist West who were doing everything they could, through invasion, war, sanctions and sabotage, to try and destroy Socialism as a concept.

Military spending wasn't really an option because of the arms race. The Soviets were just as afraid of us Americans as we were of them. Any nation's highest priority is the security of the state. Our economy is what really brought down the USSR, spending half of it's GDP on defense while the USA only needing to spend a fraction of theirs.

why worry about the past? look at the US military machine today. is it any different? they suck 'enemy' out of their finger to make people believe there is a threat. old, primitive tactics

This is complete nonsense. Money in communist countries was just a necessary method for the people to get the products in the stores, it had no market value. If the Soviet Union printed a trillion rubles it didn't change any price in the stores, because its was just paper anyway. Only a market economy can collapse due to inflation, and the Soviet economy was not a market economy. This is why the US could not keep up on the long term with Soviet military production, if they built a new submarine that would cost 2 billion dollars for the US, for the Soviets it didn't actually cost a dime.

or not.

@@cliziait is interesting.

@@UshankaShow I think the cause of that is because they waste too much in the military forces...

They were indeed, but only because the USSR was desperate for foreign currency.

@@colinmacdonald5732 like any other country, but this was a comment during my communist times😂

Compared to here, that's PLENTY. Most people live paycheck to paycheck.

There no moral equivalency between the tradeoffs between the system in the former USSR and the USA. Your system fell apart because you ran out of other people's money trying to take over the world. I served in the cold war in the US Army and I never doubted to that we'd kick your sorry asses when the time came. The USSR was a complete joke.

The air force told me the same BS.

They were about 3 years wages, so as Jeremy Clarkson put it 'It's like calling a Maserati a people's car'