My granddad used to have one up until the late 2000's. Slow, noisy, uncomfortable, stench was unbearable. But worst of all those things were the gear shifts. Funnily enough it was the first car I ever drove - I must have been like 10 or 11 (on an abandoned dirt road in the countryside, worst thing that could have happened is running over a grasshopper). I think he got it in the second half of the 80's or something like that. Those were a lot more desirable than the other soviet cars available in eastern Europe: at least finding a half-empty bottle of vodka left behind the door panels was out of the equation. As far as that region of the world, the decent(strong word) choices were Trabant and Skoda - all other cars were practically designed to decapitate you in even the lightest accident(I witnessed a fair bit of horror stories when I was a child and soviet cars were still roaming the streets). By having a Skoda or a Trabant you had some chance of survival. This was their only redeeming quality really.