Tron na kołach dla ludzi z atomowym guzikiem

A throne on wheels for those with a nuclear button. This is the story of a car that couldn't be bought for all the money in the world. A six-meter-long armored ZIL limousine, hand-assembled in just a few units per year, destined exclusively for a handful of people at the very top of Soviet power. In this film, you'll discover armor taken straight from a combat aircraft factory, made of the same steel used in the Il-2 attack aircraft, with windows up to 7.5 centimeters thick, tested with live fire on a military testing ground. You'll learn how a single ZIL 4104 model carried four General Secretaries—Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and Gorbachev—in an era of fading leaders. I'll tell you about the secret Special Purpose Garage, operating since 1921, Brezhnev's love of fast driving, the fastest production car in the USSR, capable of reaching 190 kilometers per hour, and the other, armed side of the same factory that built ZIS 5 trucks, BTR 152 personnel carriers, and the eight-wheeled ZIL 135 nuclear missile carrier. This is the story of a machine of absolute power that outlived four leaders and the fall of the empire itself, only to be reborn years later in the form of the Aurus. Music used in the film: "Eyes of Glory" by Aakash Gandhi and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" by Cooper Cannell. The photos are from archive.org and are publicly available.