#zhiguli

Red Queen.

Lapel Pin from Zhiguli Nature Reserve, with two Red-breasted Flycatchers. Samara Oblast, Russia, 1962-70 (via Soviet and Post-Soviet Lapel Pins - Harvard Library)

Publicité VAZ-2101, Zhiguli, 1970.

*edit: Fiat 124! (thx @terta!)

something very different: while walking the dogs today, I felt for a moment as if I had fallen back to the eighties...

P.S. In the free world outside Russian control, no normal person has been driving these outdated Soviet-era cars (The VAZ-2101 is a re-engineered version of the Fiat 124 produced under license from Fiat. If the left-wing Italian government had not agreed to sell Western technology to the Soviet Union, the Russians would have had almost no usable light passenger cars. Yes, yes, I already hear Russophiles screaming in outrage about the "wonders" of Soviet car industry Moskvitch, the Volga, the UAZ and ZAZ Zaporozhets. It should be noted that these naive fools do not know that their production was insignificant, the design was outdated and the quality was questionable.) already quite long time. Low-power and poor-quality Soviet cars were already a good enough reason to destroy the unnecessary and inefficient Soviet Union. The Kremlin's attempts to revive a rotten Russian empire are doomed to failure! Today, the nostalgia of the ideologues of the 'Russian world' for the old Zhiguli, prisons, censorship and mass poverty is not needed by any free person, especially those who have already enjoyed the taste of freedom... 

Cars from Атлас Автомобильных Дорог СССР. (1983)