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One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 10:05:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		It tends to produce really bad engineering.  Here's an article on the East German Trabant: http://www.dailycamera.com/longmont-news/ci_19739662

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 10:37:47 AM   
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My fav. is the odd three wheel car, popular in the UK.


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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 10:41:26 AM   
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very exciting going around a round about on two wheels or for having sex in
otherwise, the fascination wore off fairly quickly, but then im not a guy:)


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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 10:58:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		I had the pleasure of broadsiding a Trabba in Berlin driving a 25 yr old Mini Cooper. Mini 1 Commie piece of shit 0. The trabba had 2 front mounted drum brakes no hydraulic back up operating a single shoe, a fixed beam axle & leaf spring suspension. It made a Model T look like a fucking Viper. 3 cylinder 600cc engine

I wanted one.

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 11:36:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Not a diss, Steven (and the Trabant is inarguably a dreadful piece of shit), but there's a few quite well regarded bits of soviet engineering as well as the shite. They had satellites and space capsules up before your lot did, after all. Then there's the AK47, which is seen as a bit of a design classic and the TR88, which isn't, but was a lot easier to manufacture in number than the Panzers, which led to a great success at the battle of Brest-Litovsk...

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 11:51:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		Not a Diss Moonhead but the Soviet war effort was aided massively by western technology, hence the Arctic convoys. The engine for the T34 was ripped off from a Stutz originally & towards the end of the war a big Chrysler V8 was being imported. But hey they did also make the AK74 which is an awesome toy btw but that's counterbalanced by Concordski, the scariest POS I've flown on, the Zil, the Moscovich, the Wartberg, Lada, Dacia, & Skoda. Oh & boy you never saw communist era womens underwear. Jeeze that was unwittingly designed bondage gear.

Oh & the later tanks were absolute gash, using reactive armour, ie explosive pads to counter the offensive strike. Only problem was the explosives expanded slower than the incoming round so it was an epic fail.

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 11:58:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		True, I was forgetting the arctic convoys.
I thought the Zils were supposed to be pretty decent cars once they'd worked out the bugs in the initial designs? If the Politburo are going to be using the things, surely a lot of people would have been in trouble if they were complete lemons?

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 12:02:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Overweight, underpowered, POS it was a '50's yankee V8 engine from a Plymouth I think.

BTW leonid Breznev had the largest collection of Caddy's outside the States back then.

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 12:04:22 PM   
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I knew Breznev didn't like the things much.

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 12:07:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Moonhead, there's a huge philosophical discussion implied there about the desirability of having well designed consumer vs military goods - which is more important?

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 12:07:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		GAWD, what a piece of crap!Another reason to hate communism is the ugly arcitecture of buildings.
Now,....to be fair, the Russian women are some of the most beautiful in the world!
There's a site "Met-Art" that has mostly Russian Federation women in it and they're "15's!!!

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 12:08:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		I worked with a guy at Toyota @ Burnasston & Nick wanted a deuce & a Half to go with his Sherman & M10. It came from Estonia when he finally bought one.

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 12:10:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh & Polish Steel killed Lancia off. A fucking crime against humanity in my book.

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RE: One of the reasons I dislike communism - 1/16/2012 12:14:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Given that the USSR and your own country spent forty odd years in an arms race, I'd imagine the military goods were bound to win out, sadly. The fact that all of the resources were being pissed away on that was a big part of the reason the soviet union collapsed, after all.

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