Super-budget superminis of the Eastern Bloc face off

We tested three 'cheaps from the old Bloc' in November 1990…
We go back to the 1990s and re-discover which budget Soviet brand was the bestEurope was changing. We'd experienced the revolutionary Autumn of Nations in 1989, which began in Poland and soon spread like wildfire behind the Iron Curtain.
By the end of that year, democracy had returned to Czechoslovakia. Just a year later, the very linchpin of communism, the Soviet Union, fell apart. And Yugoslavia was soon to follow, violently d