I explored east Germany’s hip cities and Cold War relics – in the ultimate Communist car
I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom ...
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Communist cars: 8 Eastern Bloc horrors from behind the Iron Curtain
The car industry is very much a global business now. But it wasn’t always that way. Back in 1989, the world map was entirely different, with much of Eastern Europe languishing behind the Iron ...
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The first car made during Soviet era in Poland goes on display 73 years later
The chunky 1951 Warszawa M-20 bears the serial number 000001 it had when it left the FSO Passenger Car Factory in Warsaw on ...
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The first car made during Soviet-era in Poland goes on display 73 years later
The car was first given to the Soviet army marshal ... by a doctor’s family and a 1953 Buick that belonged to Poland’s communist-era Prime Minister Jozef Cyrankiewicz. The former leader ...
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I explored east Germany’s hip cities and Cold War relics – in the ultimate Communist car
Driving the car required a great deal of skill and ingenuity ... The name may have gone, but the huge bust of the co-author of The Communist Manifesto (who never actually visited Chemnitz) remains ...
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I explored east Germany’s hip cities and Cold War relics – in the ultimate Communist car
I am on the A72 Autobahn heading from Chemnitz to Zwickau – the birthplace of the Trabant – when I decide to put the car through its paces. We get to 85kph and I feel it shudder. But there’s ...