[yaakov34]

I don't know the details about the showing of that movie, but America's mass car ownership certainly came up in the comparisons of life in the USSR and in America. In one discussion with my classmates (in Moscow, USSR, ca. mid-1980s) I mentioned that in the suburb of New York in which my relatives lived, most of the high school students in the upper grades drove their cars to school and parked near it. "Come on", someone said, "I am with you when you tell us not to believe our propaganda, but you shouldn't believe theirs, either. Who is going to give a car to some kid, unless he is the son of a senator or something?"

Oh, and some years later, a friend of mine in America was asked by a family in the USSR (which would not be the USSR much longer) to bring some package or item to their relatives, who lived in some other suburb of NYC. My friend asked for the address. "Don't remember right now, but you'll be able to find them: they have two cars!"