Originally Posted by
onyerleft
I've noticed a nexus between bicycles and communism. For example, bikes are really popular in mainland China.
Well, you can't trust poverty numbers (or anything else) the CCP puts out but I suspect most people can't afford a car. And obviously the USSR and Cuba and every other commie nation had/has a limited selection of cars for the few people who could actually afford them.
Stalin had Packard's shipped in for him personally.