Cars weren't as big a priority for the communists. They were right too, cars and car infrastructure are super inefficient. What has all this car innovation brought us? Good cars yes, that you need to use, just to get a carton of milk or go anywhere really. Everything is too far apart in the suburbs and you need way more infrastructure per person. Excellent use of resources that one.

The Soviets were quite good in some areas. Cheap housing, rockets, electrified rail, education. The industrialization of the Soviet Union was done in record time.