10 sats \ 6 replies \ @kristapsk 29 May \ parent \ on: Old or New cars? alter_native
Not always stolen, original Lada was officially licensed Fiat 124. But it's funny that basically 1967 European car of the year with some upgrades was one of the coolest things average person could drive at the end of the 1980s.
Wow, it's a fun fact for me. I thought it was impossible during cold war
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Fiat licensed it's tech for both USSR (Lada) and Poland (Polski Fiat). It was part of the business model for Fiat back then.
But that's not the only example. Pepsi and Coke were also produced in Soviet Union by licence, for example.
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I heard that Soviet Union produced "Baikal" as analog of Pepsi
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Both Pepsi and Coke at one moment were produced in "Veldze" factory in Riga, not far from where I lived back then. AFAIK, only factory ever that has simultaneously bottled both Pepsi and Coke at the same time. And they actually continued to produce Pepsi till some mid-1990s.
With Pepsi there was a deal - USSR gets Pepsi, Pepsi get rights to Stolichnaya vodka in the West.
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interesting!
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As they say, "Good artist copy, Great artist steal."
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