Pictured is a black ZIS-110 armored limousine donated by Russia for use by President Ho Chi Minh in 1954. It is on display near the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam. It was made by ZiL, a major Russian automobile, truck, military vehicle, and heavy equipment manufacturer that was based in Moscow, Russia. The ZIL company only made 2,038 ZIS-110 cars between 1945 and 1958, which makes them rather valuable today. Several dictators from Soviet states, or even from countries that were friends of the regime received them as gifts.
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