Bell bottom trousers got to USSR! I see the Lada car too. I worked for an Ad Agency, in a lowly position, in 80's, that had 2 car client brands, Porsche and Lada. Guess which company car I was allowed to drive?
Oh, well, "Socialist Modernity" was a thing. I suppose I'll post some images from the Middle East before too long, as "before the late 1970s", people and images from, say Iraq (prior to Saddam Hussein), Iran (before the Mullahs came to power), or Syrian look remarkably like these from the Soviet Union.
As to the cars, I'm 'guessing' the Soviet product (quite a brand mix, by the way); I recall a friend drove a Lada Samara some 20 years ago: it was quite something, but it still drove--everything was "analogue" and the like, but I'm betting that more "modern" cars won't last that lone with the exception being of perhaps the "technicals" (Toyota pickups) driven by the Taliban or "ISIS"…
Bell bottom trousers got to USSR! I see the Lada car too. I worked for an Ad Agency, in a lowly position, in 80's, that had 2 car client brands, Porsche and Lada. Guess which company car I was allowed to drive?
Oh, well, "Socialist Modernity" was a thing. I suppose I'll post some images from the Middle East before too long, as "before the late 1970s", people and images from, say Iraq (prior to Saddam Hussein), Iran (before the Mullahs came to power), or Syrian look remarkably like these from the Soviet Union.
As to the cars, I'm 'guessing' the Soviet product (quite a brand mix, by the way); I recall a friend drove a Lada Samara some 20 years ago: it was quite something, but it still drove--everything was "analogue" and the like, but I'm betting that more "modern" cars won't last that lone with the exception being of perhaps the "technicals" (Toyota pickups) driven by the Taliban or "ISIS"…