How many privately owned cars were there in the Soviet Union? Seems like automobiles are tools of the bourgeoisie, so it seems perfectly inline that a socialist paradise would tightly control them.
Unless you are talking about 1948, when the country was a burnt-out desert recovering from 30 million war dead.
Cited in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_the_Soviet_Union#...
there was never a ban or stigma on private cars, it's simply a very expensive and wasteful way to move people, especially in 1948 when it was one big smoldering ruin. And when everything is walkable, and there is plentiful public transport. But if you really really wanted a car, you could eventually get it and people had millions of them.
Never in my life have I ever seen the word 'eventually' doing so much work.
but hey, if you want to keep believing that there was a crazy dictatorship ban on cars, help yourself.
The part about the farmer having his own truck seeming like a luxury to soviet citizens is true, but it's a bit unfair to say it was banned when the book was so well regarded.
It's a trait of the midriff of Mexico and Canada to blindly conflate Soviet Authoritarianism, Communism, Socialism, the Nazi NDP, etc with near zero understanding of the differences .. which leads to a region wide confusion between their system and free market capitalism.
Political education and civics in the US could use a shake up.
the midriff of Mexico and Canada
Keep hating.
Bemused .. and you've essentially confirmed why.
Enjoy your personal myopic bicameral Stockholm.