Soviet Hot Rods

The USSR was criticized by the West for their failure to provide consumer comforts. The grocery stores were devoid of potato chips. The TVs were Black and White. Fashion was puritanical, but Detroit reserved a special disdain for Soviet cars and with good reason.

All they spoke about was the Lada.

The # 1 selling car during the 1970s with a 1.5L VAZ-2103 I4 engine from a Fiat design.

They sold by the millions, however the factories could never keep up with demand and I always joked that the USSR never had hot rods.

I knew nothing.

Nothing about the Volga V12 Coupe.

Or the Pobeda-Sport.

The Gaz-Torpedo.

The Babich Leningrad

The 1934 GAZ A-Aero.

And so many others.

Gone forever into rust.

As Neil Young sang, "Rust never sleeps."

Big Bear

The USA and the USSR waged a Cold War across the world. America and her proxy nations fought wars in Korea and Viet-Nam. Countless conflicts burned on every continent and in the air as well as on the sea. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stated at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956, "My vas pokhoronim!" or 'we shall bury you'.

This boast haunted the West and state security apparatus on this side of the Iron Curtain repressed any dissent with savagery.

Death to the SLA.

Death to the Baader-Meinhof Gang

Death to Che.

The USSR gambled on conquering Afghanistan.

1979-1988.

This failure weakened the Big Bear and Mikhail Gorbachev refused to support his East European allies.

Poland defected from the Soviet Bloc and the USSR fell apart with the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Western leaders toasted their victory, however Kruschchev's antecedents remember the power of mighty Rodina and Premier Putin rules the Kremlin with the seemingly full support of the Russian people. The Beasr has re-awakened and shovels are sought to fulfill Nikita's prophecy with help from the traitor Donald Trump.

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