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As a Soviet, it’s mad seeing this kind of shit being unearthed. I had toy versions of this exact trailer thing as a kid, but the actual ‘product’ was mythical; it wasn’t ‘sold’ as such, or even advertised.
Everyone knew it existed, and being the USSR, there was only one version of this thing in existence, with a decades-long waiting list which required you to be in a privileged position within the Communist Party to even be eligible to sign up for. Nobody had ever seen one IRL, but everyone had an uncle’s best mate’s third cousin who had one.
Every kid had the toy though, along with the ‘Vazik’ (Lada Niva) tow vehicle.
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CSB.
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I did wonder, given that - as I'd read as a child - Kruschev pushed cars for the common man as part of his post-Stalin renaissance, but somebody forgot to build the supply chain for accessories, so that even windscreen wipers were a luxury that nobody could leave attached to their car when they parked it. My folks had this book on their shelves, which had an anecdote about how people would keep their windscreen wipers inside the car, so that when it rained there would be a mass pulling-over on the side of the road while people reattached the wipers. When I started following a former propaganda "executive" from the Moscow Agitprop bureau on social media, I asked him to verify this story. He said "Yes! When one of our journalists took a photograph of a famous sportsman doing the windscreen wipers dance, he got into a lot of trouble."
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That is really interesting. Do you remember any other similar products/things that were highly sought after like the trailer? Are you Russian?
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Soviet-era advert for a car trailer that unpacks into a tent, portraying the joys of family togetherness, and their choice of music was... Eleanor Rigby?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ed3199VAo
Most jaunty arrangement of Eleanor Rigby ever, certainly.