> you couldn't own a good car, no matter who you were. Well, theoretically you can. But you have to be a really high on the ladder. Brezhnev had several good

> you couldn't own a good car, no matter who you were. Well, theoretically you can. But you have to be a really high on the ladder. Brezhnev had several good _imported_ cars. Gagarin had a sport car (gift from French, I believe). Vysotskiy (think of a Soviet Elvis Presley) had a good car. But other 99.99%... no chance. Of course, I'm not taking into accounts hundreds of "expropriated" German cars which appeared in USSR after 1945.