Cars of the Soviet Union

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In 1945, Hitler’s dream of a one thousand year empire ended. Troops pushed into Berlin from all sides, crushing the German resistance and forcing its way towards the Reichstag building. By working together, the Allies and the Russians had destroyed everything in their path and emerged victorious. However, once the threat from the Nazis had been removed, what was there to hold these two ideologically and culturally disparate nations together? In truth, the answer was ‘very little’. What followed led to the dissection of Berlin, the construction of the famous wall and the period of tension between the capitalist west and the Communist east which we know as the ‘Cold War’. So what, I hear you ask, does this have to do with cars?