The Cuban's Crazy Love for Russian Lads

50 years earlier, Lilda was no longer producing in Tolyatti, a Russian city in which the company was located. After three days, Vladimir Ilic Lenin's 150th birthday is celebrated.

Co-operation between the Soviet State and Italian Fiat made Lada a vision of designers who wanted to make these virtually indestructible little cars virtually indestructible. The result was JigsawA Fiat 124 that even poets have had difficulty describing.

Lada klactic was one of the most produced cars in history, with a total of 18 million sosh.

By the 1970 ' s, Soviet aid to Cuba was at its peak. The government gave Lilda to doctors, people working on sugar farms, athletes, engineers, scientists,” says Hendy Cobas, member of the “Motor Ministers” in Cuba, which has 1,000 members.

Anyone with a Lamb in Cuba was viewed as a very important person.

Willy Hierron Allen, a 77-year-old magazine editor Motor Graces recalls one of his happiest days: “in 1978, I was leading the newspaper TransportAnd I think someone thought I deserved it. Deputy Prime Minister called me and told me “you'll have a lad.” I was so happy. Carrie was blue. I still wear it with that color. ”

Lads for Cubans have become part of the family because almost every one of them knows how to fix them when they break down, how to sentimentalize and tame.

I've seen multiple modifications coming up, other air absorbs, or extensions that make it lower than the ground, but besides music systems, these cars are always small. ” he says.

There are, in Cuba, about 250 thousand Ladas. /Periscope