"One of the most fascinating aspects of the economic history
of our time is the role played by the capitalist system in support of the
communist system. Unfortunately for us and for posterity, the story of this
strange symbiotic relationship never will be fully told. One has to scratch
hard, therefore, to retrace some of the steps which have led from the Packard
factory in Detroit to the Stalin factory in Moscow and the vast Gorki works on the Volga."
Classic car enthusiasts know there was some sort of link between
Packard and ZIS/ZIL – postwar ZIS-110s looked like near-perfect copies
of pre-war Packards, as did later ZIL/Chaikas resemble later Packard
Clippers. Or was there some sort of link? Griff Borgeson wrote on the
topic in the pre-glasnost SIA #55, February 1980, and comes away with
evidence, but no solid conclusions.
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