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*CHRRRRT*
Russian agent Gans here.
Some exclusive insider informations from the ex-DDR!
When I lived in East Germany like 4 years ago, I've met someone called "Mielke", an old man in his 60s. Not Erich Mielke of course, but someone else with that name. Being curious, I've asked him many things about the former times. Stasi? Ah come on, he said, that wasn't such a big topic. The "West" only made that up. I don't know anyone who had problems with the Stasi, he said.Yes, he looked his daily news up on RT too. "But reading isn't enough. I tend to forget the important part!", he said. Then he wrote it down, every morning, the whole article. To remember it better. He was able to quote his news sources word by word. It meant a lot to him and the way how he talked himself into a rage was hillarious. Especially the parts about the "fat bosses with cigars" on the top of some capitalist company.
Of course his old socialist heart was sparkling full of joy about the DDR medicine system. Consider this: The doctors didn't have to make lots of money. They just had to do their job, which was to cure the people. Nowadays, a cured person is the worst what can happen for a hospital, because it's a lost customer! Unnecessary expensive surgery, in which people are talked to. Current waiting times were also unknown, Mr. Mielke told me. If the medicine system didn't have to work efficent, then it's possible to have more people there than necessary.
Question: Is it a good thing if ALL companies have to make money? If all companies have to be optimised in efficency? What happens, if workplaces become too efficent? Is that a pleasant work then?
The downside was of course, that some of the DDR workplaces had nothing to do, people got bored, it was a waste of time basically. And to get more money, the actual work was done after the working times, so inoffical work. That's not a good motivation.
Ah, well. I could share even more stories from the Eastern part of Germany. But both sides have their values. Even with the wall or the Stasi, there is more behind the curtain.
Over.
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@D.Draker: If you notice a car still being in use after lots of years, it has to be a reliable one. Every region has their own staff of legacy cars, that appear regularly. I conclude from that, that these models must be quite reliable if people still use them after so many years. People wouldn't mess around too much with broken down cars, because they need them for their daily life and repair costs can go out of control.
The Lada Niva is the most surprising car that appears often in the former part of the German Democratic Republic, where I lived some years ago.
I never owned a car, nor do I understand anything about car mechanics. It's just counting numbers and seeing the machines that lasted can't be that bad. That's enough for me to call it a good car.
Now the word "good" can mean different things of course. One meaning could be efficency, safety, speed, elegance or simplicity... from what I've read the Lada Niva is quite minimalistic and simple. Simple = reliable? Looks like it's the case with the Niva. I want a reliable product, even at the cost of becoming bulky and heavy. In my world of bicycles that means sticking to a 30 year old steel bicycle with three gears. It's painfully slow, but it has shown it's reliability and most imporant: Repairability! You can fix many things by yourself where you need a mechanic on a newer bicycle.
You're right, the Niva is Fiat-based. Lada didn't invent everything from scratch and bought some old car plans from Italy instead. Maybe that was cheaper.
My size: I do fit into an old Renault Twingo. Maybe that's enough for a Lada Niva, too? I have never driven in one! I was just a bystander counting the Nivas. Maybe the car is too rough and gases it's passengers. Maybe all the Lada drivers have to drive with open windows? I haven't noticed that so far I must admit!
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@Gansangriff, I think you need to explain it to the russians , how brilliant "their" car is (lol), since there are no russians using it ! Zero. Take a look at the pics of russian cities ! German or japanese cars and some other asian brands only ! As for DDR , I think the folks there are just poor . What would you expect from a country that spent decades under russian/commie occupation ?
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