The Soviets could never sell finished goods and resorted to selling commodities like wheat and oil in exchange for necessary hard currency. The quality of goods produced were just always substandard. A large number of economists who have studied the Soviet economy have concluded that finished goods produced in the Soviet Union were worth less than the inputs used to make them.

We were great at producing things. It’s just that the thing we were really great at producing is wealth destruction and rivers of blood.

Now, we have American sociofascists who believe that as long as we destroy wealth without the obvious rivers of blood (opting instead for harder to detect underground streams), it is hyperbole to call them socialists or fascists.

Masterpiece of Soviet auto engineering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporozhets

Like the Volkswagen Beetle or East Germany’s Trabant, Soviet Zaporozhets was destined to become a “people’s car”. It was the cheapest Soviet car and so the most affordable to common people. At the same time, it was rather sturdy and well suitable to Soviet roads.