Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
In Moscow in the early 1990s, I was terrified by seeing people drive with their headlights off at night -- they wanted to "economize on headlights," because of the difficulty in buying replacement lamps!!!!

Hopefully, this was a result of Soviet shortages, and this habit has disappeared in post-Soviet times.
The authorities put an end to it, and now everybody must drive with their headlights on even at daytime