Traffic and cars in the Soviet Union - 1976 (translated)

In "Reach the Automobile", a 1976 documentary film, the problems related to traffic in the Soviet Union are addressed, with great emphasis on road accidents, which mainly involved pedestrians. It is widely known that happened a change in attitude of the Soviet governments regarding the personal car, which was previously observed as within a capitalist logic considered unreational, in terms of the use of scarce resources, and became part of culture and politics of the country's development within the new possibilities of "technical progress", the basis for other changes according to a materialist perspective.

Although the car in scarcer in USSR than in other countries, during the 1960s and 1970s there was a great effort to expand the production of personal cars. Along with the expansion of existing factories, such as the former MZMA, Muscovite Factory of Economy Cars, renamed AZLK, two new factories were created: in Izhevsk, with the objetive of producing a car with a previous soviet project and under the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense Industry, and in Togliatti, with the creation of Lada, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Automobile Industry and in which prevailed the less conservative option (in Soviet perspective) of receiving initial foreign support.

Within this context, this 1976 documentary also addresses the growing importance of the personal automobile, its cultural implications and, above all, its impacts on traffic safety. The problems regarding the supply of spare parts, typical of an economy not directly governed by market prices, is also shown euphemistically, as part of the difficulties that would mark the life of a driver, and in which rational criteria is not always possible to be applied.

According to Professor Ivanov and Major General Nozdriakov, the proposed solutions to traffic safety problems permeated the technical improvement of automobiles, a greater capacity to convince people, in which dialogue and persuasion is valued , as well as the improvement of road signaling conditions and pedestrian support.

And the automobile, which today loses prestige among the new generations, due to the growing difficulty that maintaining a vehicle represents, due to the environmental concern, as well as the practicality of transport apps, at that time was also consolidated as a desire for consumption by socialist society, marking the 20th century.

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