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1974 Mercedes-Benz [W115] Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2011-04-08 23:02 |
The building in the background is Dom Partii - headquarters of the Polish Communist Party back then. Today it is still "red", as there is the main Ferrari showroom in the country Some other W115 (behind W123) - cars of some ministry :![[Image: MBw1151.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/1306/MBw1151.jpg) -- Last edit: 2012-02-24 19:52:52 |
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◊ 2011-04-08 23:11 |
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◊ 2011-04-08 23:17 |
So in Poland back then government and ministeries have used cars from the class-enemy? ![[:heink]](https://imcdb.opencommunity.be/images/smileys/heink.gif "[:heink]") In the DDR the Nomenklatura had been very bone-headed about that. The main reason to choose cars from non-EU-member Sweden (Volvo) or the non-active-NATO-member France (Citroen). But only officially. Erich Honecker had four special Range Rover-conversions in use and the Günther Mittag, the ZK-secretary for economy had a Mercedes Benz 450 SEL 6.9... P.S.The link: http://www.ait-trading.com/astro/misc/landrover/honeckerjagdwagen.html About the DDR-6.9 I cannot show a pic. I've only seen once a second-short scene in a TV-reportage from the 80ies with it. -- Last edit: 2011-04-08 23:21:33 |
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◊ 2011-04-08 23:19 |
As I learned from old Polish films posted here, during the 1950s the Polish nomenklatura even used American cars. |
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◊ 2011-06-25 11:15 |
Ingo, just imagine DDR was the only country in the East Block (along with USSR), where you could find large number of people really believing in communist ideas In Poland you could hardly find even apparatchik believing in what he say. And when it comes to western luxury goods I can't imagine single one saying it's not politically correct to use them .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2011-06-25 23:41 |
Though this "believing" was an absolute bizarre mandacity (and everyone had known that), there were still rules there, that Nomenklatura-members, also soldiers, policemen and -fure sure- the hundreds of thousands Stasi-snitchers and their families, weren't allowed to have contacts with their Western relatives (50% of the DDR-citizens were related to ca.35% of the West German). Even more bizarre, if you have in mind, that at least everyone there, except on Rügen and in Dresden (for that called "Tal der Ahnungslosen" = "valley of the clueless") could watch West German TV. There were even some hardcore-fanatics -but indeed only a handful- which had strictly boycotted the Western TV (which was officially forbidden for officials either). Quite obnoxious, that there are some obstinate remains of this trash still alive  For me a reason not to go to the "Ostzone". Except I must for family-reasons. |
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