Ilya Vinarsky sends this photo of a scooter you THINK you recognize. No, not a Vespa but a Vyatka-Molot. Vyatka, possibly referring to "a sturdy breed of workhorse from the Vyatka Region" if you look it up on
Wikipedia.
You can get the whole history over at the
Autosoviet site and a Google translation of a Soviet site can be found
here that gives some more details and shows what the Vyatka logo looks like on the front of this machine.
Ilya tells us that the banner says "Lenin's Way Collective Farm." Perhaps celebrating one of the many agriculture collectives or joint farms (kolkhoz) in Russia. I don't know much, but I understand that back in the 30's (under Stalin), those collectives didn't do so well.
Read the complete post at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheScooterScoop/~3/385863172/soviet-vespa-clone.html