>>70754
Hey, I was taught to drive in one of those.
20k town in a middle of Belarus of all the soviet authoritarian shitholes. Anyway, I remember that lesson vividly, even though it was like 8 or so years ago.
>mid-autumn, frosty mud everywhere
>driving in mud in the training range, no hydraulics so I have to brute force the steering wheels any time I try to turn the car. Shoulders hurt.
>"alright, enough of this muddy shit, let's drive to the highway, Anon-name"
>drive there, turn to the highway, speeding up
>"hey, Instructor-name, is it just me, or are you seeing sparks too?"
>a column of smoke, can't fucking see anything while driving at 60 kph
>somehow we stop at the roadside barely seeing what's going on, without hitting another car or driving into a pit
>"that's enough driving for today, Anon-name :3. You can go now"
>Instructor proceeds to cast magic spells on this column of smoke still rising in front of the driver seat
>go several km back home on foot
>oh, couple of months later, 70% of my exam time was spent pushing this bucket on wheels out of snow it got stuck in every 500m instead of, you know, driving around
Fuck Lada. Nuke Tolyatti and the plant. Behead those who preach socialism.
Oh, also the instructor was an easily triggered loud psychopath, as is customary over here in the country of Soviet-crippled psychopaths. He was super-chill when this Lada shit almost incinerated on its own though. Probably was prepping to burn alive or something
I still hate cars and driving.
Thinking of buying a motorcycle. Any but of the former-future-whatever commie countries. Soviet motorcycles claimed lives of both my grandfathers, I sure don't want to continue the trend.