The end of the second world war meant the beginning of a peaceful era, but the economic and social conditions changed fundamentally:

• Production plans were destroyed as a result of the war and its consequences
• A new era began in Eastern Europe, behind the ‘iron curtain’ and this fundamentally changed the conditions of economic life.
• The general poverty of society, the socialist planned economy operating under Soviet rule, and CMEA all had a defining role to play both in motorcycle production and in motorcyclist life in the country.