How were cars produced in the Soviet Union? AZLK factory

“A lot depends on each enterprise, each workshop, each brigade, and each worker. And what does it mean? It means be working not only with discipline and diligence, but be working consciously, skillfully and with results, working beautifully, so that others can respect you for your work, and so that you can respect yourself“. In this report by the news program Vremia (Time) of May 28, 1978, reminding these wise words by Leonid Brezhnev in the XVIII Komsomol Congress, welder Nina Kandrashova highlights the necessary effort to improve the quality of production at the Automobile Factory of Leninist Komsomol (AZLK). Only in the Soviet Union would it be possible to see at 1:01, in Nina’s interview, two “souvenirs“: a commemorative plaque with the logo of VAZ (Lada) and a miniature similar to a Volga, from GAZ. In any other country, such factories would be considered as competitors.