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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 114310, member: 25&quot;]<i>However, products of many manufacturing companies, were in fact rather superior to their western equivalents and of consistent quality</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The T34 was a remarkable tank, true, but the Lada was not all that wonderful. The&nbsp; only Soviet era products routinely avaliable in England in the 60s were cheaper copies of German cameras.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, when I had to go to Moscow in that period, I&#039;d go home with an almost empty suitcase, having sold all the new clothes I had brought with me for black market roubles to keep me in cheap caviar and stuff. It was the same in Warsaw, everything was pretty cheap anyway, but with a handful of dollars you could dine with the apparatchniks and fight off cheap floozies.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a pity I was such a profligate then, I am sure I could have bought some worth while stuff back instead of a monster hangover. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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